Our friends at the Hester Street Fair would like you to know you can keep cool and stay stylish this weekend because both the Misting Oasis Tent and the popular "Summer Stylist Tent Event" will be back on Saturday...
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Thursday, July 22:
The Educational Alliance will host "Full Metal Mamas," a comedy...
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A couple of reminders about things happening in the neighborhood this weekend. First, it's the 2010 kickoff of Stanton Street Summer Sundays. Stanton, from Allen to Ludlow, will be closed off from noon to 5 for a community celebration....
If you are staying in the city this Fourth of July weekend, be sure to catch some of our music picks before the fireworks - and here are a few more ways to have fun (and stay cool!):
Director Tim...
Our friends at the Hester Street Fair are teaming up with Santos Party House for a "good ol' fashioned cookout" this Saturday. They write: "There will be a raffling off of tickets, VIP service packages and even an IPAD!!...you'll...
From the in-box this morning, details about the return of the Lower East Side's summer greenmarket. Beginning next Sunday, the renamed "Hester Street Greenmarket" will set up on Essex Street, just outside the Hester Street Fair.
You'll find: plump Jersey...
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver recalled his grandparents' house at 77 Hester Street just down the block, where they established the first of what is now five generations of Silvers to make their home in the neighborhood.
Wei-Li Tjong recounted childhood moments of staring...
The Hester Street Fair is now a month-old. They'll be celebrating tomorrow with an official opening ceremony, featuring State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, along with many other officials and neighborhood leaders.
The celebration is being planned...
Here's this week's email blast from the Hester Street Fair:
First thing's first...we are hosting a SPRING CLEAN SALE for the families affected by the recent fire on Grand Street in Chinatown. Local residents, hipsters, stylists and friends cleaned out...
