There are a couple of opportunities this month to participate in the public review process for the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project. As you may know, the city's plan to protect the Lower East Side from future storms on the scale of Hurricane Sandy has been met with heavy criticism.
All smiles this past Friday morning as Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver and Lower East Side community leaders celebrated the start of a major renovation project at Seward Park.
The historic public space, the oldest municipal playground in the country, is...
A lot has happened since Shaina Feinberg’s first feature film, The Babymooners, won the Audience Award at the Lower East Side Film Festival in 2016. Not only is her second feature, Senior Escort Service, slated to kick off this year’s festival on Opening Night, but she’s since made the short film, Shiva, which screened at Tribeca in 2017, and a breakout six-part web series, Dinette, for BRIC TV.
The ninth annual Lower East Side Film Festival kicks off at Village East Cinema on June 6th. This year's slate includes crowd favorites like themed shorts nights (Mind Fu*k Shorts, Strangelove Shorts and New York Filmmaker Shorts) plus an opening night film,...
Local activists and community activists are celebrating the MTA's decision to retain at least some local service on the M14 A and D lines through the Lower East Side.
After a weekend in soft open mode, the new Essex Street Market makes its official debut this morning with a ribbon cutting ceremony and speech-making from city officials.
When we stopped by the market yesterday afternoon, vendors were stocking their...
It was a day of high emotions on the Lower East Side Sunday, as longtime customers and vendors said goodbye to the old Essex Street Market building at 120 Essex St. The 1940 structure once described as "unlovely" by the New York Times, is now shuttered
According to Manhattan's district attorney, lies by a veteran New York City detective sent at least three innocent people to prison. Two of the cases in question happened on the Lower East Side.
On Wednesday, narcotics cop Joseph Franco was...
Those dreaded service changes on the L Train are just three days away, but we still don't know exactly how the M14 bus lines will be impacted.
Beginning at 8 p.m. on Friday, there will be reduced service on the...
We've been fielding quite a few emails from readers hoping to find out what's happening at Cafe Petisco, the popular Mediterranean restaurant at 189 East Broadway.
Earlier this month, signage appeared outside indicating that construction on Jefferson Street had forced...
