Francisco Alameda, president of Lower East Side Sports Academy, playing basketball with one of the kids in the academy during a festival in Dry Dock Park held as part of Hispanic Heritage Month. Photo: Vanessa Torres Hispanic Heritage Month Brings New Sports Energy to LES The Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations that kicked off around the city in October had a renewed sense of political urgency... News 12 Oct 2023 | 03:47
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
NY-10 candidate Daniel Goldman with his family on the day of the Democratic primary over the summer. Photo via Goldman’s Twitter A Race To The Finish After a long summer with not one, but two primary elections, the November 8 midterm election is now around the corner. There... News 21 Oct 2022 | 05:08
Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou (center) at the ribbon-cutting. Photo courtesy of Department for the Aging Ribbon-Cutting at Masaryk Towers On Thursday, September 22, the United Jewish Council of the East Side (UJCES) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the... News 29 Sep 2022 | 04:01
Youth sensor walk en route to East River Park from Sixth Street Community Center, May 2022. Photo: Wendy E Brawer LES, Breathe! A group of high schoolers from Sixth Street Community Center took a walk through their Lower East Side neighborhood this... News 22 Jul 2022 | 11:14
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
In August 2020, Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES) participated in a rally to cancel rent as a part of the Housing and Justice for All Coalition. Photo courtesy of GOLES The Eviction Moratorium: A View from the LES On May 1, the state’s moratorium on evictions ended and Elyse Highstreet, senior rent regulated housing organizer at Good... News 29 Apr 2021 | 07:10
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