Earlier this week we attended a news conference in front of 326-328 East 4th Street, two 170 year old rowhouses that have been the focal point of a passionate preservation debate. The Greenwich Village Society for Historical Preservation (GVSHP)...
From the Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center, a small update on 2 Allen Street. Work is expected to continue on the 7-story residential project (located behind the Jarmulowsky Building) through the spring of next year. The building of the...
Yesterday we posted a video of City Councilmember Margaret Chin's remarks during a rally on the Seward Park redevelopment site over the weekend. Now, a bit more from the rally/vigil, as well as more from Chin, who spoke with...
We'll have a story later today on the annual affordable housing rally held on the Seward Park redevelopment site. In the meantime, here's a video clip from City Councilmember Margaret Chin, who attended yesterday's event:
We were in housing court earlier this morning, following developments in the legal fight between the owner and tenants of 289 Grand Street. An appraisal done by the consulting firm Brown Harris Stevens for the landlord determined it would...
The following opinion piece was written by Lower East Side resident Brett Leitner:
This note is in response to Julia Kent and Ernest Wurzbach’s letter about SPURA published in The Lo-Down on Thursday, October 28. As a leader of...
An observant Lo-Down reader noticed that two businesses - a fruit/vegetable stand and a juice shop - seem to have suddenly gone out of business at 1 Essex, on the corner of Canal. Both establishments opened about a year...
Last week we reported the gourmet coffee shop, Cafe Grumpy, is moving into 13 Essex. There's more news today about this tenement buiding, the onetime home of Judaica store, Zelig Blumenthal.
In the past few months, the apartments above this...
Curbed notices two new listings at 60 Orchard, a condo conversion just below Grand Street. Two 2-bedroom/2-bath apartments are now being advertised on Stribling's web site for $1.195 and $1.295 million, respectively.
Per the listing, 60 Orchard is "Downtown's newest...
It's safe to say no other neighborhood organization does "photo ops" quite as well as the Lower East Side Girls Club. Today, however, was a special occasion. This morning, Girls Club supporters came to 101 Avenue D to celebrate...
