For the past several months, we've been helping to promote the ZipCard, a local program that offers great deals at participating businesses throughout the neighborhood. It's a good way to support LES businesses and to save (there are 2...
We received some photos yesterday from a Lower East Side resident indicating some progress at Pier 35, located just north of the Manhattan Bridge. Reconstructive work has been underway, haltingly, for the past few years, and is expected to...
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For many business owners, the slow creep of the city’s bureaucracy can be a source of intense frustration. But for Miguel Cortezar, owner and operator of New Roma Pizza on the corner of Delancey and Essex streets, it may...
Brooklyn political boss Vito Lopez "goes for the knockout" against Rep. Nydia Velazquez (Capital NY).
Nativity Mission Center, a high school that previously announced it was leaving the Lower East Side, is closing, after failing to find a new location...
We stuck is out for the first 4-and-a-half hours at last night's CB3 liquor licensing committee hearing. When we left around 11 p.m., there were still 22 agenda items to be heard. Here's what happened during the short time...
As we've been reporting, the Department of Transportation is in the process of implementing its Delancey Street safety plan. At Clinton Street, two new pedestrian plazas (on either side of Delancey) are now marked off. The DOT decided to...
Reading Manhattan’s food media, you’d think the Lower East Side was suffering from invasion by outside influences at every turn. Stories abound heralding the influx of German cuisine, as evidenced by a giant Munich-based brewhouse planned on the Bowery...
Kids are filing into Basketball City on Pier 36, which is officially opening today. They will be participating in a ribbon cutting ceremony in a few minutes.
