The Wu Room, a new club in the basement of the Wyndham Garden Chinatown, is starting to attract some attention. The Times' T Magazine is featuring a slide show from a fashionable art/dance party in the space. Later this...
Two New York City restaurant veterans are aiming to open what they're calling an 'authentic Mexican taqueria" in a corner space at East Broadway and Rutgers streets.
They've tentatively named the new venue "Gracias Mama," in a section of the...
We've been following happenings at 105-107 Eldridge Street, where a new team is trying to open a bi-level restaurant and nightlife venue in a space previously occupied by an Asian restaurant. A committee of Community Board 3 voted against...
More than a year after a basement fire forced the closure of popular cocktail and oyster bar, Black Crescent, the Clinton Street nightlife spot is set to officially reopen on Sunday evening.
The fire happened January 2, 2015. Although insurance...
The fabulously raunchy Mr. Lower East Side Pageant is back on the Lower East Side. Last year, event coordinator Rev Jen Miller moved the bawdy show to Brooklyn, saying, "all creative activity has been exiled from the neighborhood due to greedy landlords."
Several aspiring restaurant owners with ties to the Major Food Group (Parm, Dirty French, Carbone, etc.) pitched their plan for an expansive project at 105 Eldridge St. last night. But the panel charged with evaluating liquor permits voted against...
On the outside, Ariel's Latin Bistro looks like a Lower East Side newcomer, and in some ways, what you see is what you get. But the restaurant at 293 East Houston St. (at Clinton Street) is also deeply rooted...
We've been keeping a eye on 105-107 Eldridge St., which has been home to the music venue and bar, Fontana's, for the past dozen years. As The Lo-Down reported last month, the locally-owned spot is closing down in a...
