Today Mayor Bill de Blasio signed three new measures into law to prevent the tenant harassment and shady practices that have become so commonplace among…
Three Bowery Buildings Vacated After Wall Collapses On Workers
A brick wall collapsed onto two workers this morning as they renovated a building at Bowery and Rivington. The workers were digging for concrete placement…
Extell Mum About Height of LES Towers as Residents Complain About Construction
Extell Development addressed concerns last night about the massive towers that will rise on the former Pathmark site on Cherry Street, but refused to tell local…
Comedian Damien Lemon Will ‘Get into the Deep Issues, But This Isn’t a TED Talk’
You’ve probably seen Damien Lemon on MTV 2’s Guy Code, or as the cabbie in one of those Spiderman movies or on Comedy Central’s The…
Advocates of Small Business Protection Ponder Ways to ‘Take Back NYC’
“Right now there are banners up all over the city that say ‘New York City: real estate capital of the world,’ and that pretty much…
Bowery Tenants Protest Landlord They Say Is Pushing Them Out
About 100 people came out to the Bowery today for a press conference, where 27 families living in 83 and 85 Bowery spoke out against…
21 Post-It Notes That Reveal New Yorkers’ Concerns About Gentrification
In conjunction with the play Buzzer, Tracey Scott Wilson’s tale of an upwardly-mobile black attorney who buys an apartment in a transitioning neighborhood in Brooklyn,…
Williamsburg’s (D)evolution Captured in #MyChangingNeighborhood
When photographer Stéphanie de Rougé moved to New York in 2006 she settled on the south side of Williamsburg. “From the first day, I knew…
Cash Mob Aims to Help East Village Blast Zone Businesses Find Their Feet
Small businesses have been hit hard in the wake of the East Village explosion, so residents have conjured up a Small Biz Crawl in order to help. All walks of…
Video: A Look Inside Industry City
Sunset Park has been a contender for next “it” neighborhood since 2013, when the team behind Chelsea Market took over Industry City. The six-million-square-foot warehouse…