There's good news this afternoon concerning public access to the Seward Park campus playing fields. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is out with a press release announcing that the Department of Education, which owns the recreational area on Essex Street,...
Good news for those who take the bus downtown: the M9, which travels through the Lower East Side and Chinatown before terminating at City Hall, may be moving even further south in 2013. According to a press release today...
The recreational sports field next to Seward Park, on Essex Street, is a popular destination for neighborhood kids. But in the past couple of months, the handball, tennis, basketball courts and running track have been unusually quiet. This is...
This afternoon, some fancy new signage is going up outside the new headquarters of the Comprehensive Companies, the umbrella firm for a rapidly growing special needs school and therapy and home care services organization. Last week, Nathan Sklar, the...
This morning, State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has made public a letter he sent to Manhattan DA Cy Vance and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly calling for a "gun buy-back program" on the Lower East Side. Residents have been concerned...
One week ago, residents of the Smith Houses were displaced when a fire broke out in an eighth floor apartment at 388 Pearl Street. In the days that followed, people living in the large public housing development have contended...
On Friday, 12-year old Dashane Santana was killed by the driver of a minivan on Delancey Street. Today State Assembly Sheldon Silver is out with a letter he wrote to Transportation Department Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan:
I am writing to you...
Well our headline might be a slight exaggeration. Don't expect 140 character missives on the bialys at Kossar's anytime soon. But the New York State Assembly (and Speaker Silver by extension) have, in fact, finally established a twitter account....
State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver wants the city to look into expanding East River Ferry service to the Lower East Side. Right now there's only one Lower Manhattan stop -- Pier 11 at Wall Street. In a letter to...
The City Council yesterday approved a resolution urging the U.S. Congress to pass legislation - stalled for many months - to regulate discount interstate bus companies. Following a series of deadly accidents involving to so-called Chinatown buses, there was...
