Should Airbnb pay hotel taxes? The issue is still causing the kind of drama you wouldn’t want in your home — and lawmakers are now…
Clayton Patterson Had a Farewell Show: Is It Really Goodbye For the LES Legend?
Word that Clayton Patterson was leaving the Lower East Side for Austria really rattled those who considered him the neighborhood’s “last bohemian,” as the Times…
Greenpoint Is Getting the Convention Center It Didn’t Know It Needed
A massive center for expositions will open in Greenpoint this October as part of the Greenpoint Terminal Market, an industrial complex that is still reinventing…
Merchant’s House Desperately Needs You to Nominate Its Plaster For an Award
The Merchant’s House Museum suffered a blow on Tuesday when the Landmarks Preservation Commission finally signed off on the design of a controversial nine-story building…
East Village Loses a Beloved Gallery: ‘Tribes As a Space Will Be Nonexistent’
A Gathering of the Tribes, which has been fighting for years to keep its East Village gallery and performance space, is finally moving out next…
Steal This Building: Former Yippie HQ Is Up For Grabs
The Yippie! Museum, which long served as a home for counterculture and protest movements in Greenwich Village, is up for rent just months after it…
A Legendary Guerilla Exhibit, ‘The Real Estate Show,’ Is Revived in a Proper Gallery
One of the Lower East Side’s most storied and significant art exhibits has been resurrected at James Fuentes Gallery, just a few blocks from where…
Police Say This Guy Rented Out a Fake Apartment in Andy Warhol’s Old Building
We’ve seen this one before: a man posing as a broker conned nine women out of deposits for an East Village apartment he wasn’t licensed…
These 8 Images Show What a Stronger, Sexier LES Waterfront Might Look Like
The East River waterfront is in for a dramatic transformation in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Today, several visions of just what that transformation might…
Just How Sweet Is the Domino Deal?
The DOMINO DEAL | Create Infographics Yesterday we reported that the city had struck a deal with the developer of the Domino Sugar factory site…