A two-year-old campaign to protect Church of St. Mary (440 Grand St.) as a New York City landmark is picking up momentum. In December, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) voted to add an application for designation to its...
Here's some news just about everyone in the Lower East Side/Chinatown community will be happy to hear. As we reported this past Friday, Dong Wang and Helen Chen of Shan Fu Grocery (A&N Fruit Store) were preparing to shut...
It feels like the pace of neighborhood change on the Lower East Side is always accelerating, with new businesses opening and closing every month. But this one hurts more than most. In recent days, loyal customers of Shan Fu...
The fashion designer Alexander Wang is the new owner of one of the most conspicuous buildings in Chinatown: the former Citizens Savings Bank, a city landmark, at 58 Bowery (at Canal Street). As Crain's first reported, two family trusts...
Earlier this week, a joint session of Community Board 3's transportation and liquor licensing committees was convened to consider 13 applications for "Open Streets" on the Lower East Side. People showed up in droves for one application in particular...
The local community has been advocating for many years for an elevator at the Delancey Street/Essex Street subway station. They're finally getting their wish. At a press conference Friday (4/4/2025), MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber gathered with officials...
You may have seen the headline in The New York Times the other day, "New York's Most Exciting New Restaurant is Just a Warmup Act." Priya Krishna's glowing review of Ha's Snack Bar (297 Broome St.) offered a taste...
City leaders from multiple agencies Monday (2/25/25) demonstrated recent progress in the coastal flood protection project along the East River by showing off new flip-up flood gates under FDR Drive. The Brooklyn Bridge-Montgomery Coastal Resiliency (BMCR) project promises to use...
Coming up Thursday evening (2/27/25), community members will have a chance to tell city officials what they'd like to see happen with a development site at 324 East 5th St., currently used as a parking lot for the 9th...
There's a new spot at the intersection of Ludlow and Rivington streets from the team behind Sixty Three Clinton. Samuel Clonts and Raymond Trinh just opened Cactus Wren at 98 Rivington St. It's a wine bar with food they...
