This evening the Chinatown Working Group, a coalition of community organizations, is sponsoring a town hall meeting at P.S. 124. The forum will cover the problem of escalating rents, traffic and parking issues and education. The meeting is at...
From the NYC Transportation Department:Three lanes of the Williamsburg Bridge will be closed on Saturday from
4:00 am to midnight to facilitate construction activity. Two
Manhattan-bound lanes and two Brooklyn-bound lanes will be maintained
by reversing the north inner roadway. Brooklyn-bound trucks...
The push to oppose the city's plan to revamp Chatham Square is picking up momentum. Yesterday City Councilman Alan Gerson, NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson and community organizers rallied and delivered petitions to the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. They're demanding...
The new American Girl doll, Rebecca Rubin, will debut on Sunday morning (9am) at the company's retail store on 5th Avenue and 49th Street. If you haven't been following the hoopla, Rebecca is the newest historical character from...
The Manhattan brokerage firm, "The Real Estate Group," is out with its May rental market report. "It's clear to us consumer demand is back" for New York City apartments," the report declares. But there's this caveat:"...our consumer base is...
It'll be all Sotomayor all the time online and over the airwaves today. Sonia Sotomayor, a New York federal appellate judge, is President Obama's choice for the Supreme Court. She grew up in a Bronx Housing Project in the...
The scene outside Schiller's Liquor Bar frequently resembles a fashion shoot but yesterday there really was an ad campaign being produced on the corner of Rivington and Norfolk. We're told Banana Republic bought out Schiller's for the day...
New York City school principals receive their budgets from Chancellor Joel Klein's office today, Klein says the schools face cuts of about 5-percent next year, not as deep as he feared. While there will be no major layoffs, he...
Gawker unleashes a not unwarranted snark attack on this morning's New York Post story on rising assault cases throughout Downtown Manhattan. On the Lower East Side for instance there have been 10 more assaults so far this year than...
The Tenement Museum has released the schedule for "Twilight Thursdays," its special series of tours and talks, paired with discounts at restaurants and shops in the neighborhood. The series begins May 28th and goes through September. Here's the list...
