Lifelong Lower East Side resident Carlina Rivera is a frontrunner to be a City Council member representing District 2, where her current boss Rosie Mendez is…
Ralliers Try to Seduce Mayor Into Blocking East Village Dorm
https://vimeo.com/204107539 Residents, activists, community groups and their elected representatives gathered at the steps of City Hall yesterday afternoon with a Valentine’s Day message for Mayor…
Budding Olympians Will Soon Be Able to Play Volleyball at Two Revamped LES Parks
If the Olympics put you in the mood for serving and spiking, here’s some good news: The Henry M. Jackson Playground is getting a volleyball area.…
Why EV, LES Council Members Ended Up Backing Mayor’s Affordable Housing Plan
Last night council members Margaret Chin and Rosie Mendez visited Community Board 3 to face the music and explain their votes on the mayor’s affordable…
Alice Cancel Picks Up Endorsements for Sheldon Silver’s Assembly Seat
Democratic District Leader Alice Cancel picked up two more endorsements today in the run up to a special election on April 19 to replace Sheldon…
My Quick and Painless(???) Visit to the New ID NYC Pop-Up in the East Village
That is not a Mucinex hallucination: I just used the words “quick and painless” about government bureaucracy. Thanks, Obama! Or: thanks, Rosie Mendez. The council…
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…
East Village and LES Brace For NYCHA’s Affordable Housing Plan
Mayor de Blasio still hasn’t identified the public housing projects that will be targeted for private development under a controversial new plan, but after a meeting last…
Pols Toured the East Village Explosion Area and Sought Wisdom From Zoltar
A little over two months after the Second Avenue gas explosion, local politicians and a small group of community members toured the still-smarting small businesses around the blast site.
Via Della Pace Owners Worry That Without Help, Blast Site Will Be a ‘Ghost Corner’
“It’s been a long two and a half weeks,” City Council Member Rosie Mendez said today at a meeting with owners of East Village businesses affected by…