As everyone in the neighborhood, and beyond, seems to be participating in the New Museum's massive Festival of Ideas for the New City, knowing where to start can be a bit daunting. The New Museum has rounded up their...
Pride Goes East, a partnership of the Lower East Side Business Improvement District (LES BID) and Fourth Arts Block (FAB) will host an outdoor NYC Gay Pride Month Launch Party on Saturday, June 4, from 3:30 pm to 7:30...
This Saturday April 30, the streets of Tribeca play host to the Tribeca Family Festival Street Fair. The activities include two free screenings of family movies at the BMCC Tribeca PAC (at 199 Chambers Street, between Greenwich & West Streets): The...
A 110-seat Latino children's theater is opening in the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center at 107 Suffolk. The theater is the new homebase for The Society of the Educational Arts, Inc. (SEA), a bilingual arts-in-education organization and Latino theater company...
This weekend fairy tales come to life at the Manhattan Children's Theatre. The show includes every single story written by the Brothers Grimm (abridged, of course) including Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb, Snow White and Cinderella. A cast of four actors...
At several sites throughout the Lower East Side this morning, observant Jews participated in the burning of the chametz, leavened bread products, in preparation for Passover. The first Seder takes places at sundown this evening.
Historian and Co-Chair of the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, David Mulkins, will return to Tenement Talks tonight with his popular presentation, "The Bowery: Past, Present and Future." Mulkins has collected an amazing series of historical images of this iconic...
If you like to skateboard, there's a fun event focusing on the newest trends in longboarding tomorrow on Allen Street. It's touted at the world's first ever Longboard Expo, and it will be hosted by the Longboard Loft NYC...
This month's edition of the fascinating LES Heritage Film Series at the Seward Park Library will focus on three films about the Bowery (including the famous time capsule, On the Bowery, that screened at Film Forum a few months...
