The Lo-Down recently visited with Paula Crossfield, the managing editor of Civil Eats, a web site focused on food and sustainability. She is also a regular
contributor to the Huffington Post's Green Page and is a contributing producer at The...
As we reported earlier, the artist Marco has been painting a mural in front of a stalled construction site on Orchard Street. He has since moved around the block to the others side of the site on Stanton Street. ...
We wanted to hear what people in the neighborhood had to say in the aftermath of the shootings at a club on Avenue A late Saturday night. As we've been reporting, 42-Year old Eric "Taz" Pagan was fatally shot....
It was quite a scene on a sweltering street corner in Chinatown this afternoon. City Council member Alan Gerson rallied with Chinatown business owners and senior citizens, who are fed up with the Grand Street bike lane. While Gerson...
A marketing firm and design shop called Beyond The Valley and an architecture firm in London called Feix&Merlin are teaming up with the LES BID to bring 15 independent merchants over from the Newburgh Quarter to the Lower East...
This past weekend we checked in on the "open mic & local talent" day, sponsored by GOLES (Good Old Lower East Side) at the Generation X Garden on East 4th Street. It was part of SummerFest, a series GOLES...
As we reported yesterday, the famed Guss' Pickles, is moving out of the Lower East Side after 89 years. In our video below, owner Pat Fairhurst gives us some background on Guss' and tells us why she is compelled...
As we reported earlier, Mayor Bloomberg has decided to cut 100% of the city's after-school youth programs supported by OST2. These cuts will affect 88 programs and almost 11,000 students city-wide, leaving many disenfranchised youth without a safe place...
Along with his tattoos and his Harleys, Dr. Dave Ores is practically legendary on the LES for helping people gain access to affordable health care. He doesn't take insurance (doesn't believe in it) and you almost always "pay what...
