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Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer last week announced this year's appointees to local community boards.

The future of Chinatown and the Two Bridges area will be back on the agenda when Community Board 3's land use committee meets tonight.

City Council member Rosie Mendez is encouraging locals to show up next week at a City Council hearing on a proposed zoning change along a two-and-a-half block stretch of East Houston Street.

Almost five years after they went public with a headline-grabbing plan to create the world's first underground park in an abandoned trolley station on the Lower East Side, founders of the Lowline have cleared a major hurdle.

Members of Community Board 3 chose a new leader last night. He's Jamie Rogers, who owns Pushcart Coffee, a small business with locations in Chelsea and Murray Hill.

Tomorrow evening, the 50 members of Community Board 3 will be choosing a new chairperson and other executive officers.

On Friday, community activists and local elected officials rallied against legislation proposed by Governor Cuomo to change the state's liquor laws.

Something possessed us to stop by Community Board 3's liquor permit hearing last night (we will never learn). Here's what happened in the three hours we were there.

Usually at about this time, the Manhattan Borough President's Office puts out a master list of annual community board appointments. We haven't seen this year's version, but the new appointees have been added to Community Board 3's website.

There are a few items of interest on the agenda for Community Board 3's February liquor permit meeting.