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...
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...
The Seward Park Co-op announced this afternoon it has ended a long legal battle with Greater New York Mutual Insurance Company over the 1999 collapse of a parking garage. Back in 2004, a jury awarded the cooperative $18 million...
By now, just about the whole world (or at least all of New York) knows about the Hester Street Fair. But as organizers prepare for their second weekend, it's worth telling, as Paul Harvey would say, "the rest of...
Michael Tumminia, president of the Seward Park Co-op, says 43 years is long enough to wait for redevelopment of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA). In a recent interview with The Lo-Down, he acknowledged, "the Grand Street co-ops...
The U.S. Postal Service is considering closing 25 post offices in Manhattan this fall, including the Pitt Station location on Clinton Street. Financial troubles tied to the recession, but also less reliance on the snail mail these days, has...
The Seward Park Co-op is making plans to revitalize the retail strip it owns on Grand and Clinton Streets -- with the eventual goal of transforming the area into a shopping and dining destination. Three new board members were...
The Seward Park Co-op held elections for its board of directors yesterday. Jodi Zagoory, Carol Anastasio and Michael Tuminia unseated three incumbents. The only current board member up for election who prevailed was Carlos Rosada. Fran Marino, Lee Slater...
