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%...
Photo: Ming's Caffe at 28 Canal St.
In the news on the Lower East Side this past week:
--Alleva Dairy in Little Italy will close after 130 years. “'We don’t know where we’re going,” said Karen King, who bought the...
--The U.S. government has awarded the City of New York $21 million to finally fix Delancey Street near the Williamsburg Bridge, where vehicles, bikes and pedestrians converge in one of the most hazardous thoroughfares in NYC.
--According to a...
Photo: East River Park Track, Sunday midday.
In the news this past week:
--"In affordable housing vs. parking lot, a judge chooses the lot;' Times columnist Ginia Bellafante weighs in on a court ruling that, at least for now,...
Photo: A lion dance team made its way down East Broadway Sunday afternoon. Today is Lunar New Year but celebrations for the Year of the Rabbit will continue in Chinatown for the next two weeks.
Lower East Side news...
Photo: Lunar New Year festivities in Chinatown, 2020. Photo by Roger Bultot.
In the news this past week:
--Lunar New Year will be celebrated January 22. Here's a roundup of events across the city.
--Don't forget Super Saturday on Feb....
Photo: On Rivington Street, where the former Rivington House nursing home is being transformed by Mount Sinai into a behavioral health center.
In the news:
--Extell has reportedly snatched up 259 Clinton St. in the Two Bridges area for...
Photo: Looking fown East Broadway, Sunday midday.
In the news:
--Tenants at 95 Baruch Drive, part of NYCHA's Baruch Houses, say a boiler has been spewing steam rather than heat for several months. NYCHA insists the heat is working,...
Photo: At East Houston Street and Essex Street.
In the news:
--A man wanted in a violent spree across the city, including a murder at the Alfred E. Smith Houses, turned himself in to cops in Brooklyn.
--In an...
