You may have read last Friday's story in the New York Times about the city's dysfunctional high school admissions process. "The Department of Education’s dizzying, byzantine system for students to select a public high school left a total...
Quite an honor for a Lower East Side student! Carlos Valdez, a senior at Bard High School Early College, is the Boys and Girls Club New York State Youth of the Year. Carlos made the trip to Albany with...
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has really taken off on the Lower East Side in recent years. There are now three CSA's serving the neighborhood - the longstanding Stanton Street CSA, the Grand Street CSA and the Lower East Side...
Our friends at the Educational Alliance let us know about their new web series following the kids in the "After 3 Arts Program." Third, fourth and fifth graders are learning from working artists to stage a big...
Nothing rings in Spring better than a funky, upbeat concert led by a banjo-playing certified music therapist. On Sunday, March 20 from 11-2, the Educational Alliance is hosting The Bossy Frog Band at the Mazer Theater (197 East...
We’d like to take this opportunity to thank The Lo-Down’s sponsors:
The Abrons Arts Center, which just joined us as annual sponsor
Neal Young & Jeremy Bolger/Halstead Property
The Lower East Side Business Improvement District: Third Thursdays (co-sponsored with The Lo-Down) begins...
Green design is, of course, a very big deal these days. On Monday night, a leading expert in sustainable design and renovation will be speaking at the Educational Alliance. Architect David Cunningham will cover the basics, including: material choices,...
We'd like to take a moment to welcome our new Annual Sponsors: the Educational Alliance, Dora (the new coffee shop on East Broadway) and the Village Zendo.
Dora is offering a special Valentine's Day deal to readers of The Lo-Down....
We have received word that the famous gorilla artist Olek - yes, the one who has been crocheting all sorts of objects around the neighborhood, from bicycles to cars, and most recently, the Wall Street Bull - will be...
Twenty-five years ago, Robin Bernstein joined the Educational Alliance as a social worker. Today, as president of the large community-based organization, she's helping to reshape the settlement house movement on the Lower East Side and across the nation.
I stopped...
