Photo: On Friday, Mayor Adams, local elected officials and community leaders toured Tompkins Square Park. Credit: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office.
This past week's news headlines:
--A state judge dismisses the latest lawsuit against the mega-towers planned in the Two Bridges...
Photo: It's looking like springtime at the Baruch Houses.
In the news this week:
--Around 16% of patrol cops in the NYPD are new to the force, but in some precincts the numbers are a lot higher. "For instance, one-third...
Photo: 190 Orchard St., potentially the new home of Sammy's Roumanian Steakhouse.
In the news this past week:
--The legendary Sammy's Roumanian Steakhouse appears to be mounting a comeback, owner David Zimmerman preparing to meet with Community Board 3...
Photo: East River Park, April 15, 2023.
In the news this past week:
--The latest potential environmental scare at the Riis Houses: contaminated soil.
--Vital Climbing Gym signs a lease for a 45,000 square foot space on three...
Photo: A burst of spring in Luther Gulick Park.
In the news this past week:
--The owner of a Lower East Side building, 67 Pitt St., received more than $200,000 from the city to pay rent for 11 formerly homeless...
A high-end Japanese omakase restaurant from Zaiyu Hasegawa, the chef behind an acclaimed Tokyo dining destination, is a step closer to opening at 107 Norfolk St. on the Lower East Side. Community Board 3's liquor licensing committee voted in...
Photo: The scene on Grand Street on a recent weekend afternoon.
Lower East Side news from the past week:
--Three years after the pandemic begun, there has been some recovery in Chinatown, but the long ordeal showed that many...
Photo: Former home of Alleva Dairy in Little Italy.
In the news this week:
--A new report indicates the Lower East Side has become a buyers market for house hunters. "Tempered competition (on the Lower East Side as well...
Photo: NYC's Comptroller's Office/Smith Houses
Making news on the Lower East Side in the past week:
--City Comptroller Brad Lander came to the Alfred E. Smith Houses to announce investigations of NYCHA's oversight of contractors who handle repairs and eviction rates...
In the news in the past week:
--A housing lottery has launched for The Suffolk, the 31-story tower built on the site of the former Beth Hamedrash Hagadol synagogue, which burned down in an arson fire in 2017. 25%...
