A short time ago, the Landmarks Subcommittee of the City Council voted 4-1 to disapprove the landmarking of 135 Bowery, an 1817 federal style row house.
Community activists won a rare victory this past summer, when the Landmarks Preservation Commission...
This morning, the Wall Street Journal files a report on 135 Bowery, an 1817 row house that was declared a New York City landmark in June but now faces a new threat. As we reported last month, City Councilmember...
There's been a lot of media coverage lately about Delancey Street, one of the city's most dangerous thoroughfares. A series of fatal accidents involving pedestrians and bicyclists, plus a controversial new barricade going up around the Williamsburg Bridge have...
Last month, the Educational Alliance announced it planned a top-to-bottom, multi-million dollar renovation of its flagship building at 197 East Broadway. Today we have the first interview with Robin Bernstein, the organization's longtime president and CEO, about the big...
A 28-year old police recruit, Sherman Adams of Coney Island, died during a training run along the East River last night. It happened around 5:40 p.m., after a day of exercises that took place between East Houston and 14th...
In the weeks since the Bialystoker Nursing Home announced its closure, Board Chairman Ira Mesiter has been silent -- as critics alleged he was seeking to profit from the institution's demise. The New York Times has gotten the first...
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Ten years later in Lower Manhattan. Here's the live broadcast from the 9/11 Memorial, as 2,749 men and women who died on September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center are remembered.
Here on the Lower East...
There's been a lot of talk in the last couple of weeks about the new concrete barrier being built at the base of the Williamsburg Bridge. Gothamist was first to publish this image from the Department of Transportation, showing...
Remember all the fuss a couple of weeks ago after a video surfaced showing actor Ryan Gosling stepping in to break up a fight in the East Village? Well now he's spoken out about the mini-ordeal on MTV News,...
As we reported earlier, the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. today awarded $17 million in grants to downtown cultural and community groups. The post-9/11 recovery funds will help support all sorts of programs, including quite a few initiatives on the...
