Lower East Side

Lower East Side Tenement Museum Tells a Story

Kalia N. Baker | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: The Great Migration, Tenement Museum, Irish Immigrants, Irish Songs, Irish-Americans, Lower East Side, Culture News
Kalia N. Baker

Whether it was the famine or political and religious persecution that brought these Irish families to America, as described on the tour, they were met with much discrimination -- one of which is reflected in their housing and economic opportunity.

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Lower East Side & The Rise of NY Hardcore -- Harley Flanagan's Take

Camilla Webster | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: New York Around Town, 80s Hardcore, 1980s-New-York, New York City 1980s, Harley-Flanagan, Lower East Side, Arts News
Camilla Webster

Before there was an East Village, before Grunge, before Greenday and even Lady Gaga's East Village hit-parade, New York hardcore reverberated with a generation of kids.

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WATCH: Daphne Guinness Performs Jefferson Airplane At Arlene's Grocery!

Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: NY Around Town, Video, Daphne Guinness Arlene's Grocery, Daphne Guinness Band, Lower East Side, NY Culture, Daphne Guinness, New York News

Heiress/model/muse/filmmaker/artist Daphne Guinness has found a new hat: rock star. Guinness, whose notable co-conspirators have included Isabella...

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10 Must See Painting Shows: May 2012

Steven Zevitas | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Slidepollajax, Tom Mcgrath, Lucian Freud, Art, Ryan Mrozowski, Ned Vena, Xylor Jane, Abstraction, Contemporary Art, Lower-East-Side, Gabriel Hartley, Painting, Dana Schutz, New American Paintings, Tauba Auerbach, Chuck Webster, Arts News
Steven Zevitas

May is traditionally the last month of the art world "season." As summer looms, rhythms change and many galleries choose to mount group exhibitions in...

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Indie Theater on the Rise: Empanada for a Dream written and performed by Juan Fransisco Villa

Jody Christopherson | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Solo Performers, Juan Francisco Villa, Lower East Side, Family Stories, Matthew Paul Olmos, Allen Street, Latino Theater, New York, One Man Shows, Ballybeg, Loaisaida, terraNova Collective, Cherry Lane, Intar, Solonova, Arts News
Jody Christopherson

Writer/ Performer Juan Francisco Villa on his solo show Empanada for a Dream, a story about growing up downtown on Allen Street in the Lower East Side...

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OM NOM NYC: It's National Grilled Cheese Day

The Huffington Post | Andres Jauregui | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: National Grilled Cheese Day, Gorilla Cheese, Queens Kickshaw, Noorman's Kil, Little Muenster, Lower East Side, National Grilled Cheese Month, Lactose Intolerance, Morris Grilled Cheese Truck, Grilled Cheese, Dram, Gruyere, New York News

If Lactose Intolerance Awareness Month -- February, in case you're wondering -- had an arch-enemy, it would be National Grilled Cheese Day. While Apri...

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A Brief Renaissance: Holiday Lounge And Chinatown Fair Come Back To Life

Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Chinatown Fair Arcade, East Village, Daniel Radcliffe, Lower East Side, Kill Your Darling, New York Around Town, NY Around Town, Holiday Cocktail Lounge, Beat Generation, Kurt Vincent, New York News

New York's "lost city bloggers" are astir this week, as two of the city's recently vanished cultural institutions are (kind of) getting a second chanc...

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LOOK: Architect Designs Giant Mountains To Cover Ugly Roofs

Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: New York Architecture, Lower East Side, Manhattan Mountain, NY Around Town, Spura, Ju-Hyun Kim, Slidewide, Slidepollajax, New York Design, New York News

Forget trekking beyond city limits to get your board on. A new design crafted by architect Ju-Hyun Kim seeks to blanket the tops of buildings with ma...

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The Faithful Shopper: Choosing Chocolates

Faith Hope Consolo | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: 665 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, Caramels, 134 West Broadway, 692 Fifth Avenue, 466 Hudson Street, 44 West 17th Street, 641 Amsterdam Avenue, Chocolate, Candies, Godiva, Aditi Malhotra, Christian Vautier, Hot Chocolate, L.A. Burdick, 39 Clarkson Street, East River, Hershey Kisses, Cocoa, 401 East 20th Street, Chocolate Bars, Chocolate Bar, Lindt, Kosher Chocolates, 5 East 20th Street, Christian Vautier Le Concept, Cocoa Bar, Chocolate-Covered Espresso Bean, 254 Broome Street, Brownies, Faith Hope Consolo, Easter, Koppers Chocolate, Lower East Side, Jacques Torres, Chocolate Works, 111 North 3rd Street, 21 Clinton Street, 19 8th Avenue, 228 7th Avenue, Bonbons, New York News
Faith Hope Consolo

What are Easter, Passover, or even just spring without a little chocolate? New York has many places to buy that sweet treat. Here are some favorites.

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CBGB Searching SXSW For Bands To Play Summer Festival

Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Cbgb, East Village, Lower East Side, Ny News, NY Around Town, Cbgb Festival, New York Music, Sxsw, Video, New York News

More than five years after CBGB shuttered its doors, ending three decades of legendary punk performances to transform into a high-end John Varvatos bo...

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Fad Gadget Makes A Comeback

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Video, Lower East Side, Frank Tovey, New York Galleries, Gay Artists, Fad Gadget, Envoy Enterprises, Slidepollajax, Terence Koh, Arts News

Frank Tovey sang about the difficulties of living in the modern world; his songs "spoke for and against the little man, the ubiquitous civilian bewild...

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WATCH: Funeral Procession For Billy's Antiques On The Bowery

Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Bowery, New York Around Town, NY Around Town, East Village, Lower East Side, Billy's Antiques, New York News

Yesterday afternoon was the official sendoff for Billy’s Antiques after more than two decades at 76 East Houston. Real or symbolic, it was no doubt...

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Jarmusch Narrates AWESOME Tour Of Village's Poets (And Other Great Walking Tours)

Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Miguel Pinero, East Village, New York City Walking Tours, Lower East Side, NY Around Town, New York Around Town, New York Travel, Poetry Foundation, Allen Ginsberg, Ny Travel, Slidepollajax, Kenneth Koch, Poetry, Jim Jarmusch, New York News

With Spring and walking-weather approaching, a reader tipped off EV Grieve to a great new audio tour of the East Village. According to UnionDocs: "...

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Low Line's Kickstarter Campaign Reaches Goal!

Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: James Ramsey, Lower East Side, Ny News, Kickstarter, NY Around Town, Delancey Underground, Low Line, New York News

The power of Kickstarter has once again proven to be pure fundraising gold by helping creators Dan Barasch and James Ramsey successfully fund their "L...

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LOOK: This Ammo Belt Saved Cop's Life In LES Shootout

| Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Gun Belt, Thomas Dunne, Luck, New York Crime, Nypd, Ray Kelly, Lower East Side, Ny News, Nypd Cop Shot, Ammo Belt, New York News, NY Crime, Thomas Richards, New York News

By Trevor Kapp and Wil Cruz LOWER EAST SIDE -- A cop owes his life to an ammo magazine on his belt that deflected a bullet fired at him in a shoot...

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WATCH: New Orleans Funeral March For Man Killed On FDR

Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: NY Around Town, Fdr Drive Death, Jazz, Lower East Side, Mehdi Kabbaj, Jazz Funeral, 20 Peacocks, Video, New York News

Following the death of Medhi Kabbaj after he was struck by a car running across the FDR Drive in January, a group of jazz players gathered in the Lowe...

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Enrico David's Acrylic Portraits Scare And Delight

Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Italian-Artist, Andre-Gide, Lower East Side, Studio 231, New Museum, Enrico David, Head Gas, Art Galleries, New York, Paravents, Arts News

“Head Gas” is the first New York exhibition by Enrico David, an Italian artist based in Berlin. The normally cheeky art prankster decided to sober...

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DOT Approves Plan To Make Dangerous Delancey Street Safer

Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: New York Traffic, Lower East Side, Ny News, Delancey Street, Janette Sadik-Khan, Pedestrian Safety, Transportation, Department of Transportation, New York News

Thanks to the city's Department of Transportation, a new plan is in the works to improve the busy intersections of Delancey Street into a more safe ar...

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Embarrassing 'SHCOOL' Sign Replaced In NYC

AP | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Shcool, Weird New York, Lower East Side, Embarrassing 'Shcool' Sign, New York, Sign, Weird News News

NEW YORK — An embarrassing misspelling of "school" is gone from the street outside a New York City school building. Utility workers used heavy ...

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PHOTOS: New York Celebrates Chinese New Year

Megan Snedden | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Lower East Side, New York City Travel, New York City, Slidepollajax, Chinese New Year, China Town, Travel, Travel Blogs, China, Culture, Travel News
Megan Snedden

In Manhattan's China Town, dragons are parading through the streets and hundreds of people are visiting Buddhist temples to pray for good fortune. Across the world, others do the same.

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Oops! Huge Misprint On Stanton Street

AP | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Stanton Street, New York City Department of Transportation, Marta Valle High School, New York News, Lower East Side, Ny News, New York News

NEW YORK -- Everyone who's ever gone to school should know how to spell "school." But someone who plastered a school crossing sign on the street in...

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What happens when Tom Hanks meets Banksy?

Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Tom Hanks, Krause Gallery, Video, Art, Banksy Street Art, Lower East Side, Hanksy, Spoof, Art Spoof, Street Art Spoof, Banksy, Banksy Street Artist, Arts News

We at HuffPost Arts are fans of street art and Tom Hanks. If you combine both of these, you will get Hanksy, a New York-based graffiti artist who conv...

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'FUG YOU': A Decade of Poetry, Politics, and Rock 'n' Roll

Jan Herman | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: The Fugs, Ed Sanders, Thomas Pynchon, V., Peace Eye Bookstore, Lower East Side, Allen Ginsberg, The Chicago 7 Trial, Books News
Jan Herman

FUG YOU reads like a nonfiction outtake from Thomas Pynchon's V. The tales Sanders tells, bizarre but true, are buttressed by illustrations and citations from a mammoth archive he compiled through the years.

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Legends Of The Lower East Side: Clayton Patterson And Confederates

Jan Herman | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Coloring Book, Herbert Marcuse, Video, Clayton Patterson, Elsa Rensaa, Lower East Side, Activism, Culture News
Jan Herman

I can't let the year end without taking note of a new coloring book -- yes, a coloring book -- titled Legends of the Lower East Side.

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Prune And Perennial Plate Food Porn

Daniel Klein | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Daniel Klein, Prune, Perennial Plate, Gabrielle Hamilton, Lower East Side, Sustainable Food, New York City, Food Porn, Food News
Daniel Klein

After watching chickens get slaughtered in Queens and vegetables grow in several boroughs, this Manhattan video is just a montage of our wonderful dinner at Prune Restaurant one evening in September.

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