Thanks to Lo-Down reader Carol Markel for sending us this photo, showing smoke rising into the air, after a small fire broke out in a Grand Street tenement. Firefighters responded to 291 Grand (on the corner of Eldridge Street),...
Editor's note: Today we're excited to introduce a new columnist. JP Bowersock is a Lower East Side resident, a professional musician and a genius in the kitchen. In "JP's Food Adventures," he'll be introducing us to some of his...
Photographer Harvey Wang is raising funds to (hopefully) put on a show in honor of Adam Purple and his unrivaled "green" project, "The Garden of Eden." Purple created a huge garden on some abandoned lots on Eldridge Street in...
From this morning's New York Post "Police Blotter:"
A restaurateur returned home to his Lower East Side digs from vacation to find he had been robbed of $20,000, sources said. Georges Forgeois, 52, reported that the cash had been taken...
Time Out New York describes the collaboration between free jazz pioneers Burton Greene and Perry Robinson as "spare klezmer-based improvisation: sometimes playful, sometimes achingly somber... just the right kind of mellow." The two musicians, old friends, will be performing...
