Real Estate

We just returned from the M Schames & Sons paint store on Essex Street. The Schames family wouldn't let us take any pictures inside due to the very likely prospect that the ordeal over their building, 3 Essex, will...

A short time ago, we received a tip from a Lo-Down reader that M Schames & Son, a fixture on Essex Street for four generations is moving. We confirmed with the Schames family that they are, in fact, relocating...

A short time ago, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum held a "groundbreaking" ceremony for its new Visitors & Education Center at 103 Orchard Street. Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer was on hand for the announcement, along with other...

Here's an update on a story we were all over last year: the threatened closure of the Pitt Station Post Office on Clinton Street. In November, the U.S. Postal Service announced it was removing the location from a nationwide...

We've been keeping an eye on the demolition of the old Young Israel building on East Broadway.  In January, workers were just beginning to remove the contents of the 1837-erea building. Since that  time, the project has been going...

We just returned from the Rutgers Houses (Madison & Rutgers), where Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Paterson, Speaker Silver and HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan made a major announcement. Thanks to the federal stimulus bill, 21 New York City public housing developments...

A few weeks ago, we told you about the new car sharing program Connect by Hertz has established at the Seward Park Co-op on Grand Street. But it turns out that's just one of the green initiatives the cooperative...

There were signs this week that the painstaking community-driven process to come up with a development plan for the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area may finally be picking up speed.  In a presentation before Community Board 3, city officials...

Representatives of the Cabrini Elder Care facility on East 5th Street came to Community Board 3 with a problem Monday night. The nursing home's lease is up in a couple of years, and so far, their search for a...

It's a whole new world below Delancey. Beginning in April, the Hester Street Fair, a new weekend market, is coming to a tree-lined lot next to Seward Park.  There will be more than 60 vendors participating each day, including...