Eater sweated it out at last night's Community Board 3 meeting, listening as a couple of dozen liquor license applicants outlined their plans for new restaurants and bars on the Lower East Side.
According to their report, the French team...
Following Community Board 3's land use committee meeting last week, we published some fuzzy drawings depicting what a "new" Essex Street Market located on the southeast corner of Essex and Delancey streets might look like. The Economic Development Corp....
The future of the Essex Street Market has been grabbing all of the attention lately, but there is other news this week concerning the Seward park redevelopment process. Tuesday night, Community Board 3 approved "Urban Design Principles" for the...
Community Board 3 just convened the June meeting of the Seward Park redevelopment panel. Residents are speaking out in favor of preserving the Essex Street Market. We'll have more from the gathering, at University Settlement, later...
Two hours and 15 minutes into Community Board 3's SLA Committee hearing, the panel deadlocked on the first of 16 liquor license applications under consideration tonight. In a replay of a very familiar debate, both supporters and opponents spoke...
Last summer, I conducted an extensive interview with Barry Chusid, a longtime Lower East Side resident fighting to save 400 Grand Street, the apartment building he'd called home for many years. This morning there's some sad news to report...
The city's Select Bus Service has been operating for about eight months along 1st and 2nd Avenues. How do you think it's going so far? Tomorrow night, officials from the Transportation Department will report to Community Board 3. Residents...
At last night's Community Board 3 meeting, there was more drama surrounding Mason Dixon, the always controversial-now defunct bar at 133 Essex Street. In the end, the board voted (31-3, with 1 abstention) to approve nightlife operator Matt Levine's...
Our friends at Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center have sent a reminder about the Arts Education Forum that will take place tomorrow night at the Rutger Community Center. They write:
COMMUNITY BOARD 3 INVITES YOU TO
THE LOWER EAST SIDE ARTS...
Last night, city planning officials and Community Board 3 hosted a "SPURA Open House" inside the vacant Essex Street Market building on the southeast corner of Essex and Delancey streets.
It was a chance for residents to have a look...
