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Missing Mural

Wildan 4:36:00 AM Add Comment east village, lower east side Edit

Peter Missing is at work on a new mural at the First Street Green Art Park -- a giant, golden, cyclopean version of his infamous upside-dow...

Celebrating Streit's

Wildan 4:27:00 AM Add Comment lower east side Edit

The Streit's matzo factory, on the Lower East Side since 1915, is scheduled for demolition, ironically, the week of Passover. At the sam...

Kossar's Scoops

Wildan 4:46:00 AM Add Comment lower east side Edit

Kossar's Bialys, under new ownership, got a makeover a couple months ago. So I went by to check it out. Founded in 1936 , it's sti...

Adam Purple Burial & Memorial

Wildan 4:16:00 AM Add Comment east village, lower east side Edit

Earlier this month, Adam Purple, Lower East Side artist, activist, and creator of the Garden of Eden , died of a heart attack while riding ...

Elizabeth St. Garden

Wildan 4:38:00 AM Add Comment little italy, lower east side Edit

An affordable housing project may be getting built on uber-luxurified Elizabeth Street . However, its construction could mean the demolition...

Ices of the LES

Wildan 4:39:00 AM Add Comment east village, lower east side Edit

A summer re-run from 2011: A guide to ices of the Lower East Side . Know your piragueros. Click for the story.

Katz's Deli Kicks

Wildan 4:42:00 AM Add Comment lower east side Edit

Our old-school survivors do what they must to stay alive in the new New York. To that end, there is now a custom Nike sneaker designed arou...

Hua Mei Bird Garden

Wildan 4:41:00 AM Add Comment chinatown, lower east side Edit

Recently, for the first time, I came upon the Hua Mei Bird Garden in Sara D. Roosevelt Park on the Lower East Side at Chinatown's edge. ...

El Sombrero

Wildan 5:18:00 AM Add Comment lower east side Edit

VANISHING As Bowery Boogie reported last week , El Sombrero, aka The Hat, will be closing for good very soon. But not as soon as we thought....

Max Fish & Ludlow

Wildan 4:52:00 AM Add Comment hyper-gentrification, hypergentrification, lower east side Edit

VANISHED Last night was the last night of Max Fish on the Lower East Side--and it was packed . We've been hearing of this closure for a ...

Celebrate Katz's 125th

Wildan 11:14:00 AM Add Comment lower east side Edit

Katz's Delicatessen is 125 years old--and still going strong and now there will be a party, thanks to 5th-generation owner Jake Dell . A...

Moscot on the Move

Wildan 4:20:00 AM Add Comment lower east side Edit

On the occasion of their big move from one corner of Orchard and Delancey to the other, Moscot invited me to spend some time touring the sh...

Katz's at 125

Wildan 4:38:00 AM Add Comment lower east side Edit

Katz's deli is crowded in the middle of a weekday afternoon, packed with tourists. All the tables are taken. Seats are being saved. I dr...

Efrain's Underground New York

Wildan 4:37:00 AM Add Comment art/books/film, lower east side, meatpacking Edit

Photographer Efrain Gonzalez recently sent in some of his shots from 1980s and 1990s New York City, along with links to his incredible onlin...

Madonna: 1980s LES

Wildan 5:56:00 AM Add Comment east village, lower east side Edit

Check out this collection of Richard Corman's photos of Madonna in the early 1980s, when she used to live in Alphabet City. Madonna, Lo...

Faile on Houston

Wildan 4:15:00 AM Add Comment east village, lower east side Edit

I've got issues with the Houston mural wall , but I can't hold it against this new one by Faile. It's my favorite so far. Maybe ...

In the Martian Scaffold

Wildan 5:00:00 AM Add Comment east village, lower east side Edit

With the scaffolding gone up around 9 Second Avenue and Mars Bar, a miserable sight in blue plywood, we can just glimpse the last Martian mu...