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Construction crews will be back on the job Monday at East River Park, resuming the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project after an appeals court lifted a temporary restraining order. Fencing has gone up in the park, including along the...

Photo: A view of Chinatown from the Manhattan Bridge. Lower East Side news and notes from the past week: --The East Side Coastal Resiliency Project was supposed to be a collaborative planning triumph, uniting the neighborhood's many constituencies and...

Photo: It's that time. Saturday on East Houston Street at Norfolk Street. Some of the stories that caught our eye on the Lower East Side in the past week: --Sen. Chuck Schumer came to the Lower East Side to...

Photo: Governor Kathy Hochul at the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association headquarters on Mott Street. By Kevin P. Coughlin / Office of the Governor. Some of the stories that caught our eye in the past week: --Governor Kathy Hochul came...

Photo: A new look on the Bowery as the Moxy Hotel nears completion. --In the aftermath of two recent violent incidents in Sara D. Roosevelt Park, including the murder of a delivery worker, cops are stepping up their presence...

Photo: Saturday night at Katz's Deli. News and notes from the neighborhood: --It's time to vote, if you didn't vote early. Check out your ballot and your polling location for Tuesday's general election. --The operator of the East Broadway...

Photo: Breakfast on the Williamsburg Bridge. Photo by Shonelle Cooper-Caplan. --Police announced an arrest in the brutal murder of Sala Miah, a Bangladeshi delivery worker who was brutally stabbed in Sara D. Roosevelt Park. Cops took 23-year-old Joseph Sandoval...

In the past week, there have been many tributes to Anne Saxelby, the trailblazing cheesemonger who died far too young October 9 at the age of 40. Saxelby, who opened a tiny stall in the Essex Street Market in...

A 16-year-old boy was shot and killed last night at the bustling corner of Delancey and Suffolk streets. According to news reports, the gunman walked up to the victim, who was standing in a large group, and opened fire....

Photo: One Manhattan Square will soon be home to a Brooklyn Fare grocery store. News and notes from the Lower East Side in the past week: --Brooklyn Fare Kitchen & Market is coming to One Manhattan Square in the...