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: From NYC_DOT Instagram Saturday - a sidewalk shed removed from Clinton Street.
In the news this week:
--Here's a good one: "After a lag, a developer brings relatively rare luxury housing to the Lower East Side." They're talking...
Photo: Fall colors starting to show in Seward Park.
In the news this week:
--Big trouble for the owner of 225 Bowery, the former flop house that was converted into a luxury hotel in partnership with the Ace Hotel brand....
Photo by Friends of Pier 35 Park. The recreation deck, part of the interim park at Pier 42 (at the end of Montgomery Street), just opened.
This week's Lower East Side news headlines:
--The new Moxy Hotel at Bowery...
This story was reported by Kari Jensen.
The Lower East Side was a once again a place to see and be seen during New York Fashion Week.
Social media influencers, celebrities, editors, and off-duty models attended events. There was a feeling...
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...
Photo: The fun and games, and food, will wrap up on Grand Street tonight as the 2022 Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy comes to a close.
The tainted water scare at the Riis Houses may have been...
Photo: Essex and Delancey streets, September 2022.
In the news:
--Residents of the Riis Houses are suing NYCHA in the aftermath of the arsenic water scare at the public housing complex.
--City officials will be called before the City Council...
Photo: A splash of color at First Park, courtesy of Joel Raskin.
News headlines that caught our eye in the past week:
--The city administration is now saying that a testing error led an outside lab to conclude that potentially...
Photo: Labor Day morning exercises in East River Park.
Lower East Side news and notes:
--The federal monitor overseeing NYCHA has opened an investigation following the discovery of arsenic in the water at the Riis Houses. "The turmoil at...
