State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver released a press statement a short time ago calling on the city to dedicate revenues from Pier 36 to the "maintenance and upkeep of the East River Esplanade."Â Â A private company, Basketball City, has...
We stopped by the Sukkot celebration at the M'Finda Kalunga Community Garden yesterday afternoon. And today K. Webster, the garden's co-chair, was nice enough to send us some photos from the event. Click through to see scenes from the...
A reminder that tonight Community Board 3 will be looking for input from both residents and bar owners about the criteria used to evaluate liquor licenses. A similar meeting was held last month, but since so many people were...
Tonight at the Theater for the New City, two preservation groups are sponsoring an event titled "Past, Present and Future of the Mezritch Synagogue." For the past few years, the East Village Community Coalition, the Greenwich Village Society for...
A nice crowd turned out yesterday on Orchard Street between Broome and Grand for the third annual NYC Apple Day. Although we couldn't find any apple pie, there were plenty of apples (and apple-themed food) from local restaurants and...
There are all kinds of festivities to take part in this weekend on the L.E.S. Here are a few at the top of our list:
Comedy team Chester celebrates the one-year anniversary of their monthly variety show "Don't You Find...
The Museum at Eldridge has been documenting the final stages of the installation of their new stained-glass window by Kiki Smith and Deborah Gans. They will be celebrating the new window (and the culmination of a 24-year, award-winning restoration...
This past weekend, we were over at the Bowery Mission to witness quite a spectacle: dozens of volunteers crawling through windows and climbing up ladders -- paint brushes in hand -- to paint the organization's 10,000 square foot rooftop....
This weekend in East River Park, a group of longtime neighborhood residents are putting on a free concert -- it's the third annual "Reunion of the LES Bands."Â Among the acts set to perform: Robbie & Gary Z's 70's...
K Webster, Co-Chair of the lovely M'Finda Kalunga Community Garden, has written to let us know that they will be holding a Sukkot celebration this Sunday, September 26th, from 12pm to 2pm at their garden on Rivington and Forsyth...
