Earlier this year, when the East Village’s beloved Stage Restaurant closed in the wake of a dispute with its landlord Icon Realty Management, Brooklyn-based artist…
You Can Bank On the Chase Building at St. Marks and 2nd Being Demolished
St. Marks is now bereft of the Sock Man and soon Trash and Vaudeville, and now it looks like the Chase bank building at 130 Second Avenue will also be…
East Village Tenants Say ‘Enough Is Enough’ to Alleged Predatory Landlord
Karen Platt has been channeling her frustrations through the satisfying scrape of chalk across concrete. After years of living with dust, noise, and health hazards…