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Two Lower East Side residents sent along videos shot during Wednesday afternoon's manhole explosions on East Broadway. The first clip is from Steve Hernandez -- the second was recorded by Taylor Baldwin.

Here's an update on last night's manhole explosions on East Broadway (near Samuel Dickstein Plaza). We just got off the phone with Con Edison spokeswoman D. Joy Faber, who said workers are making repairs on corroded electrical cables today...

Firefighters are on the scene at East Broadway, near Montgomery Street, where two manhole covers exploded shortly after 5pm.  It happened in front of the Emigrant Savings Bank and across the street from P.S. 134. No one was hurt...

This morning the Red Cross is helping residents of a tenement building on East Broadway find temporary housing, after an overnight fire forced them to evacuate from the roof.  The Daily News reports a wolverine was killed in the...

A trusted tipster emailed a few moments ago to tell us about an accident she witnessed on East Broadway, near Seward Park earlier tonight. Apparently a boy, who looked to be about 7, ran from the park into the...

From Columbus Park, to East 5th Street, the Smith Houses, to East Broadway, the Lower East Side's police precincts hosted National Night Out Against Crime last night. Slum Goddess checked out the East Village scene. We were on hand...

It has been nearly a year-and-a-half since two preschool students in Chinatown were killed after an unoccupied van, left in reverse, jumped a sidewalk on East Broadway and plowed into a class returning from a trip to the Chatham...

Earlier this month we reported on the request by the Seward Park Co-op Board to add a mid-block crosswalk (and signal) on Clinton Street between Grand and East Broadway. The transportation committee of Community Board 3 voted for a...

Representatives of the Seward park Co-op are asking the city's Department of Transportation to post signs on East Broadway underscoring that trucks are prohibited from using it as a "through route." Co-op resident Ed Green has been on a...

The MTA Board meets today to vote on a "scaled back" package of fare increases.Sheldon Silver "has it easy," Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith says. In a New York Times story on the difficulty the Democratic Majority is having...