A week from Sunday, two presidents, many other dignitaries and the families of victims will commemorate the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 at the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan. For the first time, the ceremony will take place...
Earlier this week, the neighborhood's elected officials piled into a cramped community room at the Smith Houses to honor tenant leader Aixa Torres. As Hurricane Irene approached New York last weekend, she and other tenant activists went to great...
Here's the headline in the new issue of The Forward: "Venerable Bialystoker Home Closing Under a Cloud: Sale of Lower East Side Building to Board Chief Raises Eyebrows." The article breaks some new ground not already reported here and...
This week, it was announced that people living throughout much of Lower Manhattan will be covered by the $2.8 billion 9/11 Compensation Fund. The expanded zone encompasses portions of the Lower East Side, meaning those who became sick due...
In Corlears Hook Park this afternoon, work crews are almost finished cleaning up the damage from Hurricane Irene. Aided by heavy duty equipment they have cleared away debris and twisted branches left from the destruction of several trees. The...
Here's a recap on Manhattan's mostly successful effort to move on from this past weekend's Irene hoopla:
Via Community Board 3, we hear the playground on Avenue A and the mini-pool are just about to-reopen (or might have already opened)...
The family of Jomali Morales, the woman violently killed in the Baruch Houses last winter, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city, seeking unspecified damages.
Morales' body was found in an elevator at Baruch February 12th. She had...
Yesterday we noted a brief item in the Post about an incident that occurred on Henry Street (near Clinton) Saturday morning.
In the story, "Stabbed Man Stuck on Roof," the newspaper reported: "A Lower East Side man was stabbed in...
A few more photos from our late afternoon survey of the neighborhood yesterday. On East Broadway, crews were hard at work alongside Seward Park, where a couple of trees were toppled during the storm.
Pumping out a parking garage on...
Essex Street, between Grand and Canal: there may be no other place that depicts so dramatically where the Lower East Side has been, and where it's going. While most of the traditional Jewish businesses that once dotted the street...
