Police are saying an 8-year old girl was sexually assaulted last Thursday afternoon by a man who followed her into a building on Forsyth Street. Police released a videotape and still image of the suspect tonight. They described him...
Last month, we reported the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy is preparing to open a new Visitor Center at 400 Grand Street later this summer. If you walk by the storefront, formerly Ruby's Fruits, you might notice a poster...
Interview by Margaret Zamos-Monteith, Pictures by Matthew Monteith.
Author Gary Shteyngart has just moved from the Lower East Side and already he is back at Brown Café on Hester Street, one of his favorite breakfast spots. “If I were a...
From time to time, we like to check in with the neighborhood's business owners to see how things are going "on the front lines." Recently, I stopped by Zarin Fabric Warehouse to chat with David Zarin, president of one...
The ongoing debate about the future of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area revolves around the issue of affordable vs. market rate housing. But during Community Board 3's deliberations, other topics., such as the need for new schools and...
There's been lots of talk recently about the pros and cons of creating a Chinatown Business Improvement District. Critics of the plan have emerged both in the historic heart of Chinatown, but also in Soho and the Lower East...
Community Board 3's land use committee slogged through a very full agenda in a steamy four hour meeting last night. We'll have more on their discussions with the Chinatown Working Group later. First some other matters.
The panel approved two...
For the last five years, Mary Fitzgerald has baked custom-order sweets for weddings, birthdays and other occasions in a rented commercial kitchen in Long Island City, schlepping her ingredients and finished products hither and thither and relying on word-of-mouth...
According to weather.com, it's a miserable 101 degrees in the city right now. With that it mind, it seems like a good time to remind everyone that the city's cooling centers are OPEN. Here are the Lower East Side...
There's been a lot of coverage in the tabloids the past few months about the rising crime rate in New York City. Just today, the Daily News reported there have been 59 murders in North Brooklyn this year (there...
