Here are a few special events happening this weekend. If you know of more ways to get out and support our neighborhood as we continue to recover and rebuild after Hurricane Sandy, email us here, post them on Facebook...
Seeing as Hurricane Sandy squelched the Halloween holiday for most residents downtown this year, the folks at Nightmare Haunted House, who put together the super scary show "Killers," at Clemente Soto Velez, are teaming up with local merchants to...
Standing in the lobby of The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center with John Harlacher, director of Killers: A Nightmare Haunted House, I can’t help but nervously flick through the pages of my notebook. Above the shadowy house...
It's that wonderful apple picking time of year once again. At our local school, PS110's kindergarten class has the opportunity to go on a fabulous field trip to Dr. Davies Farm in upstate New York for a hayride, fresh...
Admittedly, this post is a bit last minute, but it's never too late to decide to spend some quality time with the family. If your evening isn't planned already, head with the kids to Family Day at East River...
The art world can be competitive, as the elementary school students in the Educational Alliance’s summer program at P.S. 142 will tell you. Today, about a dozen 4th-6th graders went head to head in an Art Battle tournament, the...
Last month, LES residents noticed changes taking place at a public school yard on Norfolk and Stanton streets: rows of bleachers moved in, a hardwood floor sprung up on top of the asphalt and black cloth covered large sections...
Good news as we prepare for more high temperatures over the weekend -- New York City's outdoor pools open today! The Olympic size Hamilton Fish Pool at 128 Pitt St. (just below Houston) will be open from 11:00 a.m....
Everything looks smaller when you return to the past. Wednesday night, The Neighborhood School celebrated its 20th anniversary and the corridors, classrooms and playgrounds I remembered as a child in the first graduating class of the alternative school seemed...
Coming up Friday night, June 15th, the New Museum will be putting on its first ever Teen Night. There will be live music, gallery conversations, button making and lots of other activities. Teens will also have the opportunity to...
