Lower East Side News

We just returned from the New Museum, where fans of Lady Gaga camped out through the night for a chance to attend a book event featuring the ubiquitous pop star and celebrity photographer Terry Richardson next Tuesday.  The line...

This will be quite the scene! The New Museum will be hosting the only U.S. launch event for Lady Gaga's new photo book.  The book features more than 350 color and black and white photographs taken by fashion photographer...

Who has access to the Lower East Side's public playing fields and under what circumstances?  These are questions that have come up time and again over the years. But as both youth and adult leagues steadily expand and demand...

Occupy Wall Street-inspired protests drift towards the Lower East Side this weekend.  Tomorrow, several organizations are planning  a "town hall meeting" at Seward Park High School, as an expression of support for the Occupty Wall Street movement. Earlier this...

Last week, we noted that the East River Park rehabilitation project appears certain to miss another deadline.  On the Parks Department web site, an advisory still points towards a "fall 2011" reopening of the promenade, which has now been...

Here's the scary map from the Weather Channel. As you no doubt know by now, snow is in the forecast tomorrow. The winter blast has claimed its first victim: the final 2011 weekend of the Hester Street Fair. This...

Goldman Sachs' decision to withdraw its support from the LES People's Federal Credit Union has garnered a lot of media attention in the past week. Today in the Guardian, there's an interesting follow-up to the story -- an investigation...

The storefront at 116 Eldridge Street, next to Vanessa's Dumplings, certainly doesn't seen like the kind of business that would attract the attention of city attorneys and the New Yorker's "Talk of the Town."  But sure enough, a relatively...

From time to time, we like to check in on the terminally stalled East River Park reconstruction project. Recently, the Pile Foundation barge that had been anchored in the river, just south of the Williamsburg Bridge, disappeared.  Good news? Not...

11th & B from J. Sprig on Vimeo. Dangerous Minds turns up a fascinating documentary from 1983 by French filmmaker Marie Martine, featuring remarkable footage of the Lower East Side. Have a look.