Longtime LES resident Michele Campo of the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors sent along these pictures of the demolition of 185 Bowery, which finally got underway this past week. The Real Deal reported two years ago that the global real...
This week, a CB3 panel began to telegraph the road ahead in the elusive quest for the redevelopment of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area. The land use, zoning and housing committee has been meeting for many months, in...
Michael Tumminia, president of the Seward Park Co-op, says 43 years is long enough to wait for redevelopment of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA). In a recent interview with The Lo-Down, he acknowledged, "the Grand Street co-ops...
Today's featured closing from the real estate firm Massesy Knakal is 91 Avenue D. The 3-story mixed use building located on the corner of East 7th Street was sold for $1.3 million. There's a deli on the ground floor...
We have some new information this morning about the fate of 180 Orchard, the infamous stalled hotel/residential/retail complex just below Houston Street. Last week, we reported the developer, Morris Platt, had resumed negotiations with the Department of Buildings to...
The world's most famous community organizer, Barack Obama, said it just last week: Democracy is sometimes messy. Even he might have been intrigued by the scene on Baxter Street last night. Close to 200 residents huddled around long tables...
Our story last month about a luxury development planned on Avenue D touched off an interesting debate among some of our readers about affordable housing. That debate continued during Community Board 3's full board meeting last week. As you...
The Chinatown Working Group wants to get the word out about tonight's town hall meeting at P.S. 130 on Baxter Street. Everyone is welcome to attend. For the past year, the organization has been developing what they hope will...
Back in August, we brought you news of the cheerful beautification project underway at 180 Orchard, the stalled condo/hotel project lovingly renamed by Curbed, "the Orchard Street Hell Building." At the time, LES artist Marco was painting a mural...
Every month, 23 community activists gather in a meeting room on the Lower East Side in the pursuit of a worthy but elusive goal: an agreement on the redevelopment of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA). Under the...
