Lower East Side News

Community Board 3's liquor licensing committee will once again take up the controversial issue of The DL, the nightlife venue at 93 Ludlow St., this evening.  But before the meeting even begins, there's some news about the LES Dwellers,...

This week, President Jimmy Carter will be back at "Mascot Flats," the first building Habitat for Humanity restored in New York City through the Carter-inspired renovation initiative. In September of 1984, he came to the dilapidated building on East...

The following story first appeared in the October 2013 edition of The Lo-Down's print magazine. Nearly a year after Hurricane Sandy devastated Knickerbocker Village, the historic affordable housing complex just two short blocks from the East River, Steven Wong can’t...

The city made an effort to create a somewhat more pleasing environment for human beings along Delancey Street a few months ago. But an extended construction project is going to be having the opposite effect. If you've walked past...

A few minutes ago, we posted the PDF from our October print magazine, which is being distributed throughout the neighborhood today.  A few days after our editorial deadline passed, the city at long last announced it had chosen developers...

Frank Modica, board chairman of the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council, died Wednesday at the age of 81. The longtime Lower East Side community leader served as executive director from 1976-2010 of Hamilton Madison House, one of the neighborhood's oldest...

Here's some more information about those proposed interstate bus stop applications we mentioned yesterday. Community Board 3 will weigh in on the proposals at the October 8 transportation committee meeting.  See below for additional details from the Department of...

Following the arrest of William Rapfogel on charges that he allegedly stole funds from the Met Council, attention has shifted to his wife, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's chief of staff, as well as the Rapfogel family's Lower East Side...

This afternoon, the Lower East Side Business Improvement District announced a change in leadership.  Bob Zuckerman is moving on after four years as executive director. "After four years at the helm of the LES BID, I decided that it...

It was an eventful evening at Community Board 3's monthly meeting last night: David McWater, who was under fire for behavior at a recent committee meeting, resigned after 10 years on CB3. The full board rejected a proposal from Yo! Bus...