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Last month, we wrote about a new conflict that had arisen on the Chinatown Working Group, a coalition of more then 50 organizations trying to come up with a long range community development plan.  Some of the groups represented...

Community Board 3's SLA Committee meeting was a relatively tame affair last night.  Memo to bar owners:  August is a great time to get your liquor license application past CB3. The biggest topic of conversation in the cheap seats...

Community Board 3, with the help of city agencies and elected officials, is holding a small business forum next month. The event - geared towards "surviving the economic downturn," will include information about available government resources, small business financing...

In the past four decades, generations of Lower East Side residents have grown accustomed to walking past the parking lots and abandoned buildings that make up the seven acre Seward Park Urban Renewal Area. But what most people don't...

Thanks to Lo-Down reader Chris Gage for this photo and the following tip, "the deli on the corner of Clinton Street. and East Broadway has moved around the corner, to Clinton (between East Broadway and Henry Street). When I...

We just returned from 1 Centre Street, where elected officials and education advocates rallied against the Education Department's decision to proceed with its expansion of the Girls Prep Charter School. Today's event was organized by Manhattan Borough President Scott...

We caught up with some young chefs in a cooking class at the Rutgers Housing Development last week.  They were making a vegetarian meal that included a cold melon soup, potato salad, and sauteed string beans with caramelized onions. ...

What's happening on the Lower East Side food front? Quite a lot! Next week, Alias will be presenting another one of its Monday night dinner parties. The restaurant is usually closed on Mondays but since the beginning of the summer...

All you have to do is look up in the air towards the East River, and it's fairly obvious that Gouverneur Hospital's new building on Madison Street is already making its mark on the Lower East Side skyline.  But...

John Shapiro, an urban planner working with Community Board 3's SPURA task force, said it succinctly last week: "There's not much here to work with, quite frankly." He was talking about the results of a game in which participants...