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Mendez’s asthma-free act is law
Rosie Mendez More than three years after City Councilmember Rosie Mendez originally introduced the Asthma-Free Housing Act, significant parts of the legislation were incorporated in a proposed...
View Article‘Vote for Lyn’; Help club win $50K
The Lower Eastside Girls Club is in the running for a $50,000 award if it wins the DVF Foundation’s “People’s Voice” online vote, which started Monday. Actress Rosario Dawson nominated the club for...
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Beloved blogger Arihood’s loss leaves a hole in heart of Ave. A
Photo by Jefferson Siegel Bob Arihood in Union Square covering a Critical Mass bicycle ride in July 2005. By Jefferson Siegel Late Saturday afternoon, intermittent rain fell on Tompkins Square Park....
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Probe has parents angry, principal in ‘rubber room’
Shuang Wen School parents and students rallied at Tweed Courthouse on Sept. 30, calling for the reinstatement of banished Principal Ling Ling Chou. Photo by Aline Reynolds By ALINE REYNOLDS | One of...
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Tattoos, Weasel and the Vampire Woman: What a messe
BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | Jochen Auer’s Vienna Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe in the Gasometer continues to bring high-level, world-class talent to his public. A messe is a fair, and the Gasometer is four...
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Return to Tent City: The mother of all occupations
At the punk rock concerts on July 5 marking the Tompkins Square Park riot’s 24th anniversary, one longtime East Villager could be overheard saying, “Occupy Wall Street, they held Zuccotti Park for two...
View ArticleTwo Bridges community rallies to help trapped senior citizens
BY SAM SPOKONY | As people across the city worked to recover from the impact of Hurricane Sandy, a group of seniors trapped in a Lower East Side building — without electricity, water or adequate food...
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Slow response, as Guard trucks rations into Downtown
Lower East Side residents carried their rations of food and water away from the National Guard drop-off site outside Smith Houses on Thursday night. Photo by Sam Spokony BY SAM SPOKONY | In a shaky...
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Trying to save our community on a changing L.E.S.
A photo from Clayton Patterson’s “Front Door Book.” From the 1980s through the mid-1990s, Patterson photographed many members of the Lower East Side’s Latino community in front of the door to his Essex...
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Landmarks likes 9th St. dorm; Protest march planned
A rendering of the “University House” dorm-conversion plan for the old P.S. 64, showing the historic block-through building’s 10th St. side opened up with new windows and entryways. BY SARAH FERGUSON...
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Change is needed for Downtown’s council seat
Four years ago Margaret Chin told us she would have said no to the deals to get beloved schools like P.S. 234 decades ago, and Spruce Street School more recently because the community was giving away...
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Julie Menin for borough president
It’s probably a testament to Scott Stringer’s fine work as Manhattan borough president that there are several good candidates to replace him. All four of the Democrats running would continue and...
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Chin doesn’t want to gamble on Chinatown casino buses
Councilmember Chin is chipping in on the effort to restrict casino buses, saying they masquerade as normal city buses but “they don’t respect the community.” By SAM SPOKONY | New permit applications...
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Apartment 13 makes diners feel at home, offers discount
Lorrae Doig and John Keller want you to feel at home at Apartment 13. BY HEATHER DUBIN | John Keller and Lorrae Doig want you to feel at home in their restaurant. They even named it after their own...
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A banner day to protest NYCHA infill plan
New York City Housing Authority residents and community advocates this week continued their protests of NYCHA’s infill plan by dropping banners at the proposed infill developments, including the Lower...
View ArticleFood guide is here; Cherry St. tower height unclear
BY SAM SPOKONY | Continuing more than a year of work that began when the Lower East Side’s vital Pathmark supermarket announced its closure last September, the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council on Dec....
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It’s a whole new Marketplace at St. Anthony’s vendors strip
The church, vendors and the manager all hope the Marketplace at St. Anthony’s will have a banner year. Photo by Pasha Farmanara BY PASHA FARMANARA | The Marketplace at St. Anthony’s resumed its...
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Defending neighborhood character and small businesses
The old P.S. 64, the former CHARAS / El Bohio Cultural and Community Center, has sat vacant for 15 years. Developer Gregg Singer plans to create a dorm there. PHOTO BY LINCOLN ANDERSON BY SARA...
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Little Italy parish saddened by pastor’s retirement
BY TEQUILA MINSKY | As he has done many times before, Father Fabian Grifone, 88, celebrated afternoon Mass on Ash Wednesday at the Church of Most Precious Blood on Mulberry St. “I’m supposed to be...
View ArticleChin wants higher fines for harassing senior tenants
BY SAM SPOKONY | Asserting it will help to protect seniors from wrongful eviction and abuse, City Councilmember Margaret Chin on March 12 introduced legislation that would increase the penalties...
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