Save the Lower East Side!

NYU will present its 2031 Expansion Plan Wednesday, April 14th, 5:30 to 8pm Kimmel Center, 10th floor, 60 Washington Square South (at LaGua...

The State Senate has passed a bill to add requirements to the liquor licensing process. It's a mixed bag, and reason for concern. The ...

The good: Bloomberg has seen the light that new affordable housing wedded to market-rate development leads only to net upscaling and displac...

Tom Angotti, one of the great urban planning analysts, is teaching a course on The Housing Question: Real Estate Crisis and Community Contro...

Ray's on Avenue A just north of 7th Street is the heart and soul of this place. It used to be the gathering spot for all the local anarc...

This Monday evening, the Chinatown Working Group, a group open to all stakeholders in Chinatown, will hold a town hall on its plans for the ...

Basketball City, a private gym, is installed on Pier 36 on the East River, city property. Will Basketball City serve the community as public...

I read a book today that I probably should have read forty years ago -- Eliade's The Sacred and the Profane, not the first book you'...

U pscale nightlife locations serving a non local patronage are popping up in the heart of Chinatown; local businesses, having trouble keepin...

Following up on the this little comment exchange in the Lo-down's article about CB3's ongoing troubles planning for the Seward Park...

Books Through Bars (no, not local bars -- prison bars ) is holding Bingo Night to pay its way: ABC No Rio (156 Rivington St), Friday Nov. ...

The NY Times election analysis map shows that the Lower East Side still retains its distinctive spirit in a city elsewhere divided by race ...

Tagging on the last post, if the police cabaret units are, as one bar owner described them, "a bunch of goons going around harassing pe...

I don't blame bar owners for wanting the police to quit ticketing them. But how could the Community Board buy the argument that ticketin...

Every Sunday afternoon, returning from Chinatown, I pass through the southwest entrance of Tompkins Square Park and there, always and reliab...

A glimpse at Bloomberg's New York -- sent to me by a worried tenant who is currently being harassed by her landlord -- tells me what the...

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...