Local photographer Roger Bultot shared some great photos from Sunday's Lunar New Parade in Chinatown. It's been a tough holiday season for the community, as unfounded fears about the new coronavirus have kept many people away from the neighborhood.
Our friends at the Feed Me a Story project are kicking off a new audio tour of Essex Market (88 Essex St.) with a fun event this Saturday, from 11am - 1pm, on the mezzanine at the market.
The New York City Council yesterday approved a controversial plan to build a flood protection system along the East River from East 25th Street to Montgomery Street.
The other day in The New York Times, architecture critic Michael Kimmelman called the Essex Crossing project, "one of New York’s most promising new mixed-use developments." He even dubbed it the "anti-Hudson Yards." The Lower East Side mega-project, with...
There was a ribbon cutting this week to celebrate the opening of the Dale Jones Burch Neighborhood Center at Henry Street Settlement.
The newly renovated facility is located in a former firehouse building at 269 Henry St., adjacent to the...
There's a new mural coming to the neighborhood, via ASVP and Delancey Street Associates. The 10,600-square foot mural will decorate the Suffolk Street side of The Rollins, one of nine sites at the Essex Crossing megaproject. The mural was selected from more...
The following op/ed was written by Lee Berman, a Lower East Side district leader, regarding this past weekend's shocking murders of four homeless men in Chinatown.
In response to neighborhood opposition to the city's plans for a flood barrier in East River Park, the de Blasio administration announced more changes in its resiliency schemes this week.
Here's the latest evidence that all is not well at Extell's One Manhattan Square.
The Real Deal reports that the developer is now offering a "rent-to-buy" program for condo units in the 80-story monstrosity where the Lower East Side's Pathmark...
