Save the Lower East Side!

Thursday, after nine months boycotting the Chinatown Working Group (CWG) meetings, local labor finally showed up. Hester Street's Nation...

Miriam Friedlander, 1914-2009 Representing the LES in the City Council, 1973-1991

Campaign contributions draw a profile of a candidate more telling than public speeches. Contribution information is easily accessible. Go to...

State Senator Squadron will hold a hearing on retail diversity. http://www.nysenate.gov/press-release/squadron-cities-hearing Unless we wan...

About a dozen suits from educational institutions met today at P.S. 64 (formerly El Bohio, site of Charas), all prospective tenants. Is Sing...

The 27-story hotel will rise on the site of the old Atlantic Garden, a respectable German beer hall built in 1858, part of which appears to ...

Curbed and the Real Deal report plans for a 27-story hotel/condo complex on the Bowery just south of Canal Street, next to the old Citizens ...

I'll be speaking at the Muste Institute this Saturday on how recent city administrative policy has divided neighborhood activists, under...

BAN's town hall on the future of the Bowery drew a large crowd of eighty or more -- impressive for a community meeting. Everyone, both f...

From the Historic Districts Council Newsstand : NYC Council Member Alan J. Gerson invites you to a Stakeholders’ Meeting to consider a plan ...

Our Community Board has sent around a notice asking for help in getting themselves more funding. But CB3 did not send around a notice announ...

C-Squat is holding a benefit for Ray's Sunday June 7, 5:30 to 10:30 to help Ray pay his fines and do some renovations. If you love Ray a...

A while back I was asked to write an introduction to a book on LES history. Unfortunately, after it was all written, the publisher asked us ...

In response to the recent wildings of a pack of adolescents, someone has anonymously created a website calling for action designed, it appea...

Looks like the city has it out for Ray's on Avenue A. DOH has posted a shut-down notice on the window. Apparently they don't like th...

1) Urge Albany to pass new rent laws before the end of the session June 22 2) Town Hall on the future of Chinatown, June 1 Urge Albany to pa...

In the 1880's the neighborhood underwent a sweeping transformation. Italians filled the tenements of Five Points while Eastern European ...

Applications are available for 197 affordable apartments under construction in the Chelsea/Clinton/Midtown area of CB4 and 73 affordable apa...

Despite its curiosity and color, conservative Republicans still deplored the slums, blaming poverty on the slumdwellers themselves, while pr...

of Bloomberg's moves to help developers ignore, violate or avoid the law, starting with 1) the stealth development rule that allows ille...