Photo: Former home of Alleva Dairy in Little Italy.
In the news this week:
--A new report indicates the Lower East Side has become a buyers market for house hunters. "Tempered competition (on the Lower East Side as well...
Photo: NYC's Comptroller's Office/Smith Houses
Making news on the Lower East Side in the past week:
--City Comptroller Brad Lander came to the Alfred E. Smith Houses to announce investigations of NYCHA's oversight of contractors who handle repairs and eviction rates...
Photo: Ming's Caffe at 28 Canal St.
In the news on the Lower East Side this past week:
--Alleva Dairy in Little Italy will close after 130 years. “'We don’t know where we’re going,” said Karen King, who bought the...
--The U.S. government has awarded the City of New York $21 million to finally fix Delancey Street near the Williamsburg Bridge, where vehicles, bikes and pedestrians converge in one of the most hazardous thoroughfares in NYC.
--According to a...
Photo: At East Houston Street and Essex Street.
In the news:
--A man wanted in a violent spree across the city, including a murder at the Alfred E. Smith Houses, turned himself in to cops in Brooklyn.
--In an...
Photo: Sara D. Roosevelt Park.
Some of the headlines that caught our eye in the past week:
--The NYPD cracked down of counterfeit operators in Chinatown this past week, seizing $10 million in knockoffs. State Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Nou was sharply...
Photo: The view of the Lower East Side from Brooklyn at dusk.
In the news this past week:
--There are different opinions about whether the latest lawsuit meant to block the mega-towers in the Two Bridges area is justified...
Photo: An early voting site on the Lower East Side was pretty quirt on Saturday.
In the news:
--Early voting is over in New York City. If you haven't voted in the general election, you will need to cast...
Photo: Some determined runners at the East River running track. Could the NYC Marathon be a week away?
In the news this week:
--A decade after Hurricane Sandy, resiliency projects to protect the Lower East Side and other vulnerable...
Photo by Roger Bultot.
Lower East Side headlines:
--The housing lottery for 64 Norfolk St., where the Beth Hamedrash Hagadol synagogue stood before being burned down, is now open. There are 86 apartments for seniors with incomes between 40% and...
