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...
Photo: Williamsburg Bridge.
In the news this past week:
--The owner of a residential building on Chrystie Street faces charges after the alleged beating of a homeless man, who was reportedly brandishing pieces of a broken chair. The altercation happened outside...
Photo: Amphitheater and main gallery renovations underway at Abrons Arts Center
Some of the headlines that caught our eye in the past week:
-- Sales are sluggish at best at 222 East Broadway, the condo tower that rose alongside the...
Our friends at Daredevil Tattoo Shop & Museum are hosting a party on Thursday, July 25th to celebrate the Skull Session Lyle Tuttle exhibit as part of the NYC Tattoo Arts Convention happening July 26,27,28.
The @lyle.tuttle Lyle...
An affordable housing lottery is now live for 196 rental apartments at the Grand Street Guild campus surrounding St. Mary's Church.
The apartments at 165 Broome St. (at Clinton Street) are considered affordable to individuals and families earning between...
Lower East Side residents and community leaders converged at Corlears Hook Park Sunday afternoon for a prayer vigil in memory of three people who were killed the evening of July 4 when the driver of a pickup truck came...
This week's episode of The Lo-Down Culture Cast features pioneering Lower East Side gallery owner James Fuentes.
Host Traven Rice spoke with Fuentes about how growing up in the neighborhood influenced his creative aesthetics and the intention behind the gallery,...
A lot of longtime residents likely thought they'd never see the day. But it's happened. About a decade after the Pathmark grocery in the Two Bridges area closed, a new grocery store has opened.
Brooklyn Fare will host its official...
Photo: NYCHA's Seward Park Extension.
Recent headlines:
--NYCHA has selected a private consortium consisting of MDG Design + Construction, Essence Development, and Wavecrest Management to take over three public housing complexes on the Lower East Side. Seward Park Extension, the Hernandez...
