Contractors are working quickly to take down the Grand Street buildings destroyed by fire one week ago. This was the scene yesterday afternoon -- workers hovering above the wreckage, carefully removing the top floors of 283 and 285 Grand.
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The human toll of this week's destructive fire on Grand Street came into sharp focus last night. A large number of residents displaced by the blaze crowded into the basement of the Chinese Benevolent Association on Mott Street for...
An update on yesterday's fatal accident on Delancey Street. As we reported (here and here), a pedestrian was struck and killed around 4am as he was crossing the street (near Essex). The body was not moved for several hours,...
An elderly man who was inside one of the apartment buildings that went up in flames on Grand Street last night has not been accounted for. City Councilmember Margaret Chin, who has spent most of the day on the...
It's not only April Fool's Day! It's also Census Day. That explains why politicians and community activists fanned out across the city this morning, urging residents to fill out their Census forms and mail them as soon as possible....
Sheldon Silver congratulating Margaret Chin
Margaret Chin made history last night, coasting to an easy win in the District 1 City Council race. She becomes the first Chinese councilmember to represent Manhattan's Chinatown, and the first Asian woman on the...
On a cold and rainy evening, the Lower East Side's key political leaders and representatives from many of the neighborhood's non-profit organizations descended on a meeting room at the Seward Park Co-op last night for a neighborhood information fair.
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Even her opponents would have to concede it was Margaret Chin's night. A large crowd turned out in Chinatown last night to size up the four candidates running against incumbent City Council member Alan Gerson. In a lively,...
More on the battle of the bike lanes. After City Council member Alan Gerson's rally yesterday to protest the configuration of the Grand Street bike lanes, CD1 candidate Margaret Chin released a statement sharply critical of the event. Chin...
The five candidates competing to represent District 1 (including the LES) on the City Council debated the issues Monday night at a forum sponsored by The Villager and Downtown Express newspapers. The evening was marked by an aggressive...
