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Julia Testa has specialized in events and flower delivery since day one. Serving Manhattan, Brooklyn and parts of Queens. They create some of the best flower arrangements and floral designs in New York City and provide same-day delivery for orders that are placed online...

We could all use some cheering up and Julia Testa is NYC’s best local, privately-owned and operated florist. They offer contactless local delivery throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn 7 days a week from 9am – 6pm. Julia Testa provide same-day delivery for orders that are placed online...

Hester Street Fair is moving their online Gift Guide to the brick and mortar gallery at 22 Ludlow for an extra week of New Year shopping. The Gift Shop will be open Saturday, January 2nd to Sunday, January 10th from...

Local retailers are helping boost the spirits of beleaguered New Yorkers by offering festive settings and quality customer service, as a year tarnished with pandemic-related loss draws to a close.

Sweet Pickle Books, a used bookstore and pickle shop, opened at 47 Orchard Street this week. Offering used books and homemade pickles, the shop also "buys books, libraries, records and weird things

From the Inbox: Local resident and Lo-Down reader, Cass Lilien, wrote us an uplifting note -- "Hoping to share a story about why I love my neighborhood and Dah Shop...My bike and main source of transportation was run over while parked in front of my apartment on Orchard Street...

Howdy from Partybus Bakeshop, your Lower East Side Bakery! As fall approaches, we want to take a moment and say thank you to everyone who's been our champion from day one. We are so incredibly lucky to be part of this...

The Hester Street Fair will be up and running "IRL" this Saturday, August 15th, 2020. As with most businesses and venues, it has been operating online-only throughout the ongoing pandemic. The fair, made up of an ever-changing selection of...

Katz's Delicatessen has launched local delivery, directly from its website -- the owners of the iconic Lower East Side restaurant concluding they can offer a better deal than third party delivery companies like Seamless and Grubhub.

In a troubling sign of the times, the popular dessert shop Doughnut Plant announced their decision to close all of their shops, "at least through August," this past week.