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...
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...
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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...
