Left: Our Lady of Sorrows’ Mets Little League coach. Right: Woman shooting baskets next to the highway. ( Photos: Brian Berger) East River Park Reopens to High Praise & Some Concerns It’s real, it’s beautiful, mostly, and it’s LOUD, in parts, most definitely, if not deafeningly. Say what?! Hold on, let’s... News 02 Jun 2025 | 12:30
The new location of NAISNY, which will open its new home in Gramercy Park in September, taking over a site that once housed the French École, which is moving into larger facilities next door. ( Photo: Kelly Garreau) Elite British School Will Relocate to Gramercy Park from East Village in September An elite British grammar school that has been based in the East Village for more than a decade will be opening its doors... News 29 May 2025 | 11:42
At a weekly meeting of the planning committee of Theater for the New City's Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, performers Miguel Loyola and Toni Renee Taylor, romped at theater's entrance after raiding its costume collection. They will both be performing at this year’s festival which runs from May 23 to 25. ( Photo by Jonathan Slaff) Lower East Side of the Arts Marks 30 Years of Creativity and Civic Commitment This Memorial Day Weekend, the Theater for the New City (TNC) will once again transform its historic space at 155 First Avenue... News 20 May 2025 | 01:54
Police say this is a photo of an arsonist walking on Grand St. on July 6. ( Photo: NYPD) Arsonist Torches Lower East Side Hatzalah Truck; Jewish Hate Crime Suspected A brazen but sub-competent firebug tried to set a Jewish emergency medical service vehicle aflame on Saturday evening July... News 15 Jul 2024 | 03:02
Clockwise: Ebenezer Gospel Tabernacle Christian Mission in Harlem, St. Paul’s German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chelsea, Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum on the Lower East Side, and St. Peter’s Chelsea. ( Photo credits, clockwise: Ebenezer Gospel Tabernacle Christian Mission’s Facebook page, Jim Naureckas via Wikimedia Commons, Ajay Suresh via Wikimedia Commons, Beyond My Ken via Wikimedia Commons.) Four Sacred Sites in Manhattan Receive Renovation Grants The New York Landmarks Conservancy has pledged a total of $81,750 in “Sacred Sites Grants” to four religious properties in... News 03 Jun 2024 | 04:11
Lawsuit: Mount Sinai Beth Israel Ignored Sex Abuse of Star Doctor for Years A major New York City hospital ignored a star physician’s rampant sexual abuse of patients, turning a blind eye to what he... News 25 May 2023 | 07:13
Leigh Altshuler opened Sweet Pickle Books during the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo: Abigail Gruskin On The Lower East Side, You Can Trade Books For Pickles When Leigh Altshuler and I first spoke on the phone, it sounded like chaos had erupted over at Sweet Pickle Books, her Lower... News 09 Dec 2022 | 11:21
Underground Overground Producers David Levine and Ethan Mansoor. Photo: William DeVito Comedy in the Candy Shop In the resplendence of the eighty-four-year-old Economy Candy shop on Rivington Street last week, comedy producers, David... News 10 Nov 2021 | 11:23
Caroline Weaver, owner of CW Pencil Enterprise, inside her store. Photo: James Pothen Not Just Pencils Anymore On a gray Friday night in December of last year, the world’s only pencil store closed. For six years CW Pencil Enterprise... News 05 Aug 2021 | 11:46
Sweet Pickle Books owner Leigh Altshuler behind sign. Photo: James Pothen Sweet Pickle Books Preserves LES History The shrine contains four objects: a bottle, a jar, a book, and a photograph. The books, pickles, cassettes, VHS tapes, mugs,... News 22 Jul 2021 | 11:54
Robert Gerstner of Aedes de Venustas perfumery. Photo: James Pothen The Pleasing Aroma of Aedes de Venustas The New York Times has tried many times to describe the inside of Aedes de Venustas. “Second Empire whorehouse,” “Victorian... News 08 Jul 2021 | 03:30
Designer Cass Lilien in her jewelry studio on the Lower East Side. Photo: James Pothen A Business in Miniature Start big. Dream small. That’s how Cass Lilien made it through the pandemic. The California-born jewelry designer began in... News 24 Jun 2021 | 05:58
The author, with her parents and Grandma Saro, in Stuyvesant Town in the 1990s ( Photo: Courtesy of Ashley Arocho) Bittersweet Memories of the Lower East Side I went to Wo Hop, a Chinatown hole in the wall, for the first time in 1987. I was still in my mother’s womb, and she and... Voices 27 Dec 2019 | 02:27
Karen’s Quirky New York Screams for Ice Cream