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The City Parks Foundation is teaming up with Transportation Alternatives to offer FREE bike valet service for all the Summer Stage shows happening in the East River Park throughout the month of August. The program is part of an...

Last month, we reported the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy is preparing to open a new Visitor Center at 400 Grand Street later this summer.  If you walk by the storefront, formerly Ruby's Fruits, you might notice a poster...

Earlier today, we posted some of the highlights from next month's CB3/SLA Committee agenda. Eater picked up one of the restaurants mentioned -- Dans Le Noir.  The Euro chainlet had planned to go into a space on East 21st....

July 19, 2010, marked the fourth anniversary of a bold and ambitious decision by the congregation of an historic Lower East Side synagogue. Saddled with a crumbling building they could not afford to repair, the members of Young Israel...

This weekly feature spotlights a wide variety of people who live and work on the Lower East Side.  If you have someone you would like to recommend for “My LES,” please email us here. What do you do? I'm the Associate...

In spite of the rather uninviting drop-down gate and ever present scaffolding, there are some new signs of life at the former home of Two Boots Tavern.  In May, Two Boots owner Phil Hartman called it quits but announced...

In the hours after fire ravaged three buildings on Grand Street this past spring, displaced residents found themselves in the media spotlight. Three months later, the television cameras and daily newspapers are gone. But the people whose lives were...

A couple of weeks ago the Lower East Side Girls Club broke ground on their new home on Avenue D. Today, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development is out with a news release highlighting the 78 units of...

From time to time, we like to check in with the neighborhood's business owners to see how things are going "on the front lines." Recently, I stopped by Zarin Fabric Warehouse to chat with David Zarin, president of one...

For the last five years, Mary Fitzgerald has baked custom-order sweets for weddings, birthdays and other occasions in a rented commercial kitchen in Long Island City, schlepping her ingredients and finished products hither and thither and relying on word-of-mouth...