Aby J. Rosen, owner of the gloriously graffitied Germania Bank building at 190 Bowery (soon to be outfitted as a high-end office building for fashion agencies…
Los Sures, a Time Capsule of Bygone Williamsburg, Gains Wider Distribution
Couldn’t get enough of Los Sures, the time capsule documentary of life in Puerto Rican Williamsburg back in 1984? You weren’t alone. The film, originally…
WNYC’s Gentrification Podcast Is a Wrap, But the Conversation Continues IRL
If you care about the gold rush sweeping Brooklyn and you haven’t been listening to WNYC’s There Goes the Neighborhood podcast…well, you must be living…
De Blasio Makes It Rain, Pours More Money Into East River Flood Protection
We all remember when superstorm Sandy plunged the East Village into darkness after a 14-foot storm surge caused an explosion at the ConEd station (in fact, there’s…
The Struggle For Sheldon Silver’s Assembly Seat Is Real, as Rajkumar Launches Bid
The ink has barely dried on the special election for Sheldon Silver’s 65th district state assembly seat and we’re already sprinting towards the general primary in September.…
Woman Attacked in Her LES Apartment Building
Have you seen the man in the above video? Police believe he accosted a woman in her apartment building near Stanton and Pitt Street. The…
This Passover, There’s Lots O’ Matzo at Museum at Eldridge’s Synagogue Tours
This is the first Passover in 90 years without Streit’s Matzo in operation on Rivington Street. So what do you do if you get hungry after seeing the new…
Hundreds Rally for the Right to Refuse Stop and Frisk
In 2013 Mayor Bill De Blasio was voted into office with pledges to reign in police violence and stop-and-frisk policing targeted at blacks and latinos. (Remember that…
The After-Bern: Twitter Reacts to Neighborhood Primary Results
If you aren’t celebrating 4/20 right now, you’re probably still hashing out the winners and losers of New York’s Primary Day. Luckily for every election nerd,…
Dr. Jay’s Mogul Accused of Tenant Harassment on the Bowery
More than 100 Chinatown residents and their supporters crowded onto the sidewalk in front of 83 and 85 Bowery yesterday afternoon, marching around the block and gumming…