It feels like the pace of neighborhood change on the Lower East Side is always accelerating, with new businesses opening and closing every month. But this one hurts more than most. In recent days, loyal customers of Shan Fu...
The Texas-based firm, MML Hospitality, has completed its acquisition of Nine Orchard, the high-end hotel in the former Jarmulowsky Bank Building. The $92 million deal closed on August 20 and the signed documents appeared in city records today.
DLJ Real...
It’s opening day for LiDL at 408 Grand Street on the Lower East Side. The discount grocery chain, based in Germany, took over a former Rite Aid store on the northeast corner of Grand and Clinton streets. Locals started lining up...
Earlier this week, a joint session of Community Board 3's transportation and liquor licensing committees was convened to consider 13 applications for "Open Streets" on the Lower East Side. People showed up in droves for one application in particular...
You may have seen the headline in The New York Times the other day, "New York's Most Exciting New Restaurant is Just a Warmup Act." Priya Krishna's glowing review of Ha's Snack Bar (297 Broome St.) offered a taste...
City leaders from multiple agencies Monday (2/25/25) demonstrated recent progress in the coastal flood protection project along the East River by showing off new flip-up flood gates under FDR Drive. The Brooklyn Bridge-Montgomery Coastal Resiliency (BMCR) project promises to use...
Coming up Thursday evening (2/27/25), community members will have a chance to tell city officials what they'd like to see happen with a development site at 324 East 5th St., currently used as a parking lot for the 9th...
There's a new spot at the intersection of Ludlow and Rivington streets from the team behind Sixty Three Clinton. Samuel Clonts and Raymond Trinh just opened Cactus Wren at 98 Rivington St. It's a wine bar with food they...
Chinese New Year is upon us! The Lunar New Year Firecracker Ceremony takes place today in Sara D. Roosevelt Park from 11am-4pm. The official Lunar New Year Parade and Festival takes place Sunday, February 16, 2025 at 1:00pm. Celebratory...
There's an expansive new climbing gym and workout facility on Broome Street, between Clinton and Suffolk streets, going all the way to Delancey Street. VITAL, a 50,000 square foot Rock Climbing & Fitness Gym (182 Broome St.) officially opened...
