This week's Tenement Talk at the Tenement Museum will feature author Jennifer Gilmore, in conversation with Lara Vapnyar, about her novel, Something Red - the story of the tumultuous Goldstein family. Set at the end of the Carter administration...
Former New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes will discuss his recent book, Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York, as part of the Tenement Talks Series at The Tenenment Museum, tonight at 6:30pm (FREE). Grimes charts the...
Tonight's talk at the Tenement Museum features author Patrick Radden Keefe discussing his recent book, The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream. It's the story of Sister Ping, a grandmother with a noodle...
Eric Ferrara, author of Gangsters, Murderers and Weirdos of New York City's Lower East Side, will be doing a presentation/book signing at The Tenement Museum as part of their Tenement Talks series this evening at 6:30pm (108 Orchard...
Tonight's Tenement Talk at the Tenement Museum is LES Stories: The Melting Pot, Hosted by H.R. Britton. At the popular storytelling series,
professionals share their tales of the city as melting pot. Performers
include Sherri Eldin, Michele Carlo, Alexandra de...
Local butcher Jeffry Ruhalter will be at the Tenement Museum tomorrow evening at 6:30p for a Tenement Talk. Ruhalter, who gave The Lo-Down some excellent Money Saving Tips back in April, will be discussing his fourth-generation family business...
Tonight's Tenement Talks at The Tenement Museum features two journalists with books out about uncovering family secrets. In The Pages in Between, Erin Einhorn tracks down the Polish family that hid her mother from the Nazis; in...
Community Board 3's Transportation, Public Safety. Environment Committee meets. Among the issues to be addressed: requests for stop signs at Delancey and Lewis Streets, request for crosswalk on Clinton between Grand and East Broadway, funding proposals for LES Ecology...
