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Police are looking for a suspect wanted in the attempted rape of a woman on the Lower East Side Wednesday morning. The incident happened at around 3 a.m. near Stanton and Suffolk streets. Cops believe the suspect removed the clothes...

Belraf Fabrics will be closing its Orchard Street store on June 30 after 33 years on the Lower East Side, and the owners are offering bargain prices until then.

Earlier this month, residents, elected officials and activists at the Cooper Square Committee raised their voices against controversial landlord Icon Realty.  Now the property owner -- under fire for its treatment of tenants -- is hiring a "chief safety...

Friday, May 6, 2016 | Joel Raskin took this photo a few weeks ago of Canal Street | Weather: Another day of rain ahead, with gusty winds, and a high of 54. Mostly cloudy tomorrow with a high of...

While Extell Development honcho Gary Barnett is not calling it a "price cut," the luxury apartments in his 80-story Lower East Side tower are taking a dip. The Real Deal reports on the shift at One Manhattan Square, the...

A few shots from our afternoon walk down Essex Street, across Canal Street and up Orchard Street...

Montreal band Sheer Agony plays Cake Shop tonight at 8:30. $10. Ticket info here. As Brooklyn Vegan put it, "Their sound is is almost entirely out of step with what is currently going on in the musical zeitgeist...which is...

Here's what's happening on the Lower East Side food scene: --New York Cider Week is coming up Nov. 6-15. It includes the Lower East Side Cider Festival on Nov. 8 from noon-4 p.m. The farmer’s market on three blocks of...

A group of Lower East Side residents got a big boost from a state supreme court judge this past week in their campaign to block the sale of the Home of the Sages nursing home building at 25 Bialystoker...

Jamie Pugh is sentenced to 25 years-life in the fatal beating of 68-year-old Wen Hui Ruan. The attack occurred on East 6th Street in 2014. The victim's widow wrote in a letter read in court during the sentencing that...