This weekly feature spotlights a wide variety of people who live and work on the Lower East Side. If you know someone you would like to suggest be featured in “My LES,” please email us here.
What do you...
Orchard Street's Sunday pedestrian mall was created to accommodate shoppers back when it was a livelier retail destination, but these days, business owners regularly complain that a lack of traffic--both foot and vehicular--hinders their success.
This spring, the Lower East Side Business...
A short time ago, a New York Fire Department spokesman told us no investigation is planned at 321 Grand Street, where a fire broke out overnight. According to the FDNY, the blaze started on the third floor of the...
One day this fall, I was meandering south down gallery dotted Orchard Street. and bumped into Dino Eli. I found him doing his customary ritual dance—floating between the eponymous Dino Eli Gallery and Orchard Windows Gallery, a tiny space...
After a spectacular holiday weekend, we'll see more nice weather today. Cloudy skies give way to sunshine this afternoon and a high of 61. The rest of the week, the highs will be hovering in the low 50's but...
Editor's note: The Lower East Side has been a bastion of entrepreneurship for many decades. In the last couple of years, one trend being seen here and elsewhere is the establishment of "hybrid stores." Reporter Wyatt Marshall talks with...
We love this photo from jdx. It's a mural by street artist wk interact - brilliantly captured above Arlene's Grocery on Stanton between Orchard and Ludlow (behind the old Cafe Charbon).
Here's a reminder that NYC Apple Day is coming up this Sunday on, where else, Orchard Street. This year, the event features an all-new apple pie eating contest. Some of the nation's most feared competitive eaters will be taking...
In the past couple of years, we've all become accustomed to seeing discarded mattresses lining the sidewalks of New York. Such is life in a city fending off a bed bug epidemic! A word to the wise, however.
If you're...
This afternoon, residents and business owners along and around Orchard Street are meeting with police and local civic organizations to discuss crime prevention in the wake of a violent robbery on June 14. We'll have more on today's discussion later,...
