Police are searching for a 24-year-old man who allegedly raped a 10-year-old this October on Bushwick’s Moffat Street. [NY Daily News] Developer Douglas Steiner reportedly…
Week in Shows: New Year’s, New Fears Edition
And we’re back… well, sort of. We’re at least moseying our way toward the holiday finish line. Not quite ready to let go of it…
Before the Spate of LES Towers, There Was Confucius Plaza
This week, we continue our series of deep dives into the histories of storied addresses. Shopkeepers across the Bowery tracked its progress: 42 stories, 43,…
75 Years After It Pushed Out the Pushcarts, Essex Street Market Presses Forward
This week, we continue our series of deep dives into the histories of storied addresses. Six inches of snowfall coated Manhattan on January 10, 1940,…
Fire Fatality in Williamsburg; Cupcakery Planned for St. Marks Place
Early this morning, a man was found dead at 40 Richardson Street following a fire at his three-story Williamsburg apartment building. Another resident is currently…
Drom, a World-Music Oasis in a Sea of Urban Renewal
This week and next, we present a series of longer pieces unraveling the histories of storied buildings. Earlier this month, a funky clarinet tune spilled…
‘A Strange Story’: How 160 Bleecker Went From Slum House to Bohemian Bastion
This week and next, we present a series of longer pieces unraveling the histories of storied buildings. At the end of the 19th century, Ernest…
Nick’s Tavern, the Jazz Joint That Went Down Swinging
This week and next, we present a series of longer pieces unraveling the histories of storied buildings. When Dick Hyman — “a living, breathing encyclopedia…
Bootlegers, Stuyvesants, and Slovaks: The Colorful History of Blue and Gold’s Building
This week and next, we present a series of longer pieces unraveling the histories of storied buildings. You could spend a night at Blue and…
Why Did the Members of an East Village Fishing Club Go ‘Down to a Watery Grave’?
This week and next, we present a series of longer pieces unraveling the histories of storied buildings. On the morning of June 24, 1894, the…