The area known as Two Bridges, below the Lower East Side, melting into Chinatown and hemmed in by the waterfront, has long been defined by its…
As Luxury Tower Rises, Cracks in Adjacent Building Strengthen Gentrification Fears
A simple red brick building established by a non-profit affordable housing developer two decades ago, 82 Rutgers Slip houses low and moderate-income residents, some who were…
Renderings of Extell’s ‘Poor Door’ Released at Community Meeting
Now that the pile drivers have finished work on the foundations of Extell’s controversial 80-story behemoth on 252 South Street (known as One Manhattan Square), it’s pretty…
Embittered By Corruption and Displacement, LES Neighbors Coalition Demands to See the Mayor
At an emotional Lower East Side town hall meeting on Saturday afternoon, hundreds of concerned residents, a number of small business owners, and representatives of…
Luxury Teepees and More To Entice Wealthy Chinese to Extell's 80-Story Tower
A controversial new luxury building is trying to attract foreigners to the Lower East Side — but not the type of immigrants the neighborhood is used to.…
Lowline Edges Toward Reality, But What Does It Mean For the LES?
“Lower East Side, not for sale!” “Chinatown, not for sale!” These were the chants on the streets of Chinatown two weeks ago, when protesters, huddled under…
Chinatown Residents Rally Against ‘Racist’ Towers They Say Are Displacing Them
“Where are you, de Blasio?” That was the question of the afternoon when rain-soaked protesters braved the weather at City Hall to protest rezoning that…
Chinatown and LES Residents Rally Against ‘Building From Hell’
Around 250 local residents, business owners and members of the Coalition to Protect Chinatown & The Lower East Side met at the future site of…
Protesters Voice Outrage Over Extell’s ‘Building From Hell,’ Coming to the LES
Lower East Siders rallied against a 56-story building due to rise over the former Pathmark site, with some saying its luxury apartments constituted “racist development.”
Stuyvesant Stationary, Rite Aid Are Latest to Suffer Death by Developer on East 14th
Just a few months after the Blarney Cove shuttered on East 14th Street, yet another business is suffering death by developer: Stuyvesant Stationery is closing after 23…