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The German discount grocer, Lidl, will be opening a new location at 408 Grand St., in the space previously occupied by a Rite Aid store. Lidl and Grand Street Guild, the nonprofit housing operator which controls the 23,000 square...

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...

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...

Photo: Beth Israel. In the news this past week: --State regulators reject, at least for now, the closure plan for Beth Israel, saying Mount Sinai has failed to document "massive financial losses and a declining patient census." --Chinatown...

Photo: Clinton Street is blooming! In the news this past week: --District 2's Community Education Council approved a non-binding resolution calling for an investigation into the presence of transgender girls on girls’ sports teams. The vote is legally meaningless but has...

Photo: Signs of spring on Essex Street. In the news: --Residents are fed up with an MTA construction project that has been going on along a stretch of Forsyth Street for five years. --A second arrest has been made...

Photo: Sunday afternoon in Seward Park. It's not quite spring yet but it sure felt spring-like today! In the news this past week: --The battle over unionization at the Trader Joe's store at Essex Crossing is continuing, and some employees...

Photo: The scene on Essex Street on a recent afternoon. In the news this past week: --A temporary restraining order blocks Mount Sinai from continuing to phase out services at Beth Israel Hospital. --"Mayor Adams... celebrated himself for brushing off...

Photo: The view from the Manhattan Bridge. See that advertisement on the side of the storage facility building? News and notes that caught our eye in the past week: --The plans to utilize government funds to renovate Kimlau Square...

Photo: Early morning on East Broadway. In the news this past week: --During his State of the City address, the mayor committed $55 million for improvements to Kimlau Square in Chinatown. --The Two Bridges Neighborhood Council announced the death of...