Police say this is a photo of an arsonist walking on Grand St. on July 6. ( Photo: NYPD) Arsonist Torches Lower East Side Hatzalah Truck; Jewish Hate Crime Suspected A brazen but sub-competent firebug tried to set a Jewish emergency medical service vehicle aflame on Saturday evening July... News 15 Jul 2024 | 03:02
Student marching band at the first ever LES Puerto Rican Day parade & festival on June 1. Photo: Stella Zhong First Ever Puerto Rican Day Parade Held on Lower East Side The historic neighborhood of the Lower East Side, known to locals as “Loisaida,” hosted its first-ever Puerto Rican Day Parade,... News 10 Jun 2024 | 02:29
Clockwise: Ebenezer Gospel Tabernacle Christian Mission in Harlem, St. Paul’s German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chelsea, Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum on the Lower East Side, and St. Peter’s Chelsea. ( Photo credits, clockwise: Ebenezer Gospel Tabernacle Christian Mission’s Facebook page, Jim Naureckas via Wikimedia Commons, Ajay Suresh via Wikimedia Commons, Beyond My Ken via Wikimedia Commons.) Four Sacred Sites in Manhattan Receive Renovation Grants The New York Landmarks Conservancy has pledged a total of $81,750 in “Sacred Sites Grants” to four religious properties in... News 03 Jun 2024 | 04:11
Lawsuit: Mount Sinai Beth Israel Ignored Sex Abuse of Star Doctor for Years A major New York City hospital ignored a star physician’s rampant sexual abuse of patients, turning a blind eye to what he... News 25 May 2023 | 07:13
Leigh Altshuler opened Sweet Pickle Books during the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo: Abigail Gruskin On The Lower East Side, You Can Trade Books For Pickles When Leigh Altshuler and I first spoke on the phone, it sounded like chaos had erupted over at Sweet Pickle Books, her Lower... News 09 Dec 2022 | 11:21
Storefront for Kinky’s Dessert Bar on Orchard St. Photo: Gaby Messino Kinky’s Dessert Bar Makes a Name for Itself In the early afternoon of February 15 my roommate sent me a link to an Instagram post from @secret_nyc. It depicted cupcakes... News 01 Mar 2022 | 03:14
Underground Overground Producers David Levine and Ethan Mansoor. Photo: William DeVito Comedy in the Candy Shop In the resplendence of the eighty-four-year-old Economy Candy shop on Rivington Street last week, comedy producers, David... News 10 Nov 2021 | 11:23
St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery. Photo: Gaby Messino A Boost for St. Mark’s St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery has been a haven for social justice and the arts for decades. Congregants held demonstrations... News 31 Oct 2021 | 09:54
Caroline Weaver, owner of CW Pencil Enterprise, inside her store. Photo: James Pothen Not Just Pencils Anymore On a gray Friday night in December of last year, the world’s only pencil store closed. For six years CW Pencil Enterprise... News 05 Aug 2021 | 11:46
Sweet Pickle Books owner Leigh Altshuler behind sign. Photo: James Pothen Sweet Pickle Books Preserves LES History The shrine contains four objects: a bottle, a jar, a book, and a photograph. The books, pickles, cassettes, VHS tapes, mugs,... News 22 Jul 2021 | 11:54
Robert Gerstner of Aedes de Venustas perfumery. Photo: James Pothen The Pleasing Aroma of Aedes de Venustas The New York Times has tried many times to describe the inside of Aedes de Venustas. “Second Empire whorehouse,” “Victorian... News 08 Jul 2021 | 03:30
Designer Cass Lilien in her jewelry studio on the Lower East Side. Photo: James Pothen A Business in Miniature Start big. Dream small. That’s how Cass Lilien made it through the pandemic. The California-born jewelry designer began in... News 24 Jun 2021 | 05:58
The author, with her parents and Grandma Saro, in Stuyvesant Town in the 1990s ( Photo: Courtesy of Ashley Arocho) Bittersweet Memories of the Lower East Side I went to Wo Hop, a Chinatown hole in the wall, for the first time in 1987. I was still in my mother’s womb, and she and... Voices 27 Dec 2019 | 02:27
