Locals have long enjoyed relaxing in the Elizabeth Street Garden and until recently thought they had achieved a last-minute reprieve to halt development plans. ( Photo: Marie Pohl) New Peril for Elizabeth Street Garden: Developers Sue the City The fate of the Elizabeth Street Garden, a community and sculpture garden in Little Italy, remains uncertain once again.... News 24 Nov 2025 | 05:36
Luther Gulick Park, where a dead woman later identified as Queens resident Angela Bridges was found on Nov. 16, 2025. ( Photo: Brian Berger) Dead Woman Found in Lower East Side Park, Murder Suspected Tragedy came to little-known but much-loved Luther Gulick Park on the Lower East Side on Sunday morning, Nov. 16, when a... News 21 Nov 2025 | 07:07
Basquiat family members holding up the new street sign on the corner of Great Jones Street and Bowery. ( Photo: Marie Pohl) Jean-Michel Basquiat Still Rising on Streets & at Auctions The recent street naming in honor of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat has brought to light a torn-up photocopy of a rental... News 13 Nov 2025 | 07:18
New York Herald headlines of Dec. 3, 1893. ( Photo: Public Domain) Canter’s Lowly Resting Place: Three Old Jewish Cemeteries Revisited Often in historical research one stumbles upon something other than that which they were looking for. So it occurred recently... Voices 10 Nov 2025 | 01:45
From the LICH collection: Gustav Bock and the String Quartet, 2024. ( Photo: Courtesy Ki Smith Gallery) The House That Bock Built “The whole series boils down to storytelling and how that creates biases within nations. Germany is very well known for its... City Arts 22 Oct 2025 | 05:14
Wanted for Hate Crime Assault on East Houston Street, Sept. 8. ( Photos: NYPD) Hate Crime on Houston St.; Attempted Subway Rapist Sentenced Police are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying the individuals wanted in connection with a hate crime assault... News 06 Oct 2025 | 12:11
Left: Parade over the Corlears Hook Park Bridge. Right: East River Park amphitheater, a work in progress. ( Photos: Friends of Corlears Hook Park; Brian Berger) That New Corlears Hook Bridge to East River Park? Wow! It might not be the yellow brick road, but the paths to and from the new Corlears Hook Park Bridge to the East River Park... News 05 Oct 2025 | 04:35
Left: Southeast corner of East Broadway and Clinton Streets; Right: ATF takedown at Canal and Forsyth streets, September 15, 2025. ( Photos: Brian Berger) Shooting on LES Wounds Two; ATF Takedown on Canal St. One of the most richly historic areas of Lower East Side was the site of anarchic gun violence on Tuesday, Sept. 16. Details... News 22 Sep 2025 | 12:27
Dashing Whippets track meet, Aug. 16, 2025; runners line up for “A” heat mile. New York Lions youth football practice in background (right rear). Inset: A sign announces the closing of this section of East River Park. ( Photos: Brian Berger) East River Park Track Closes, Corlears Hook Bridge Reopens If you want to talk about the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project—involving flood control and other things—you’d best be... News 15 Sep 2025 | 08:52
Left: 890 East 6th Street building at Lilian Wald Houses NYCHA; Right: Illegal drugs sold in Washington Sq. ( Photos: Google Maps, NYPD) 3 Men Shot at LES Housing Project; Drug Bust In Washington Square Blood soaked the sidewalk outside the Lilian Wald Houses NYCHA project early on Sunday morning August 31 after three men... News 08 Sep 2025 | 01:49
Left: Booty from recent Washington Square Park drug busts; right: NYPD warns against mail fishing. ( Photos: NYPD) Drug Busts in Washington Square; Mailbox Thefts in East Village Police continue to arrest the purveyors of illegal narcotics including crack, methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl in Washington... News 25 Aug 2025 | 02:35
Alleged rapist Anthony Smith on Aug. 10, 2025. ( Photo: NYPD) Alleged Hell’s Kitchen Rapist Arrested on Lower East Side A suspect in the recent assault and attempted rape of a 21-year-old woman in Times Square has been arrested. To the surprise... News 17 Aug 2025 | 06:27
Left: Women at Henry M. Jackson Playground. Right: Men at Seward Park. ( Photos: Brian Berger) Mini Chinese 9-Man Volleyball Tourney Thrills Thousands on LES A screaming comes across the sky. It’s a red, white, and blue Mikasa volleyball, and on the weekend of July 19-20, across... News 29 Jul 2025 | 04:54
Election night at Conbody, the gym founded and owned by Marte’s brother, Coss. ( Photo: Christopher Marte Facebook) Incumbent Marte Wins Four- Way Primary Battle in CD 1 After a frenetic last month of campaigning, including the election-eve shock announcement that Elizabeth Street Garden had... 28 Jun 2025 | 10:51
Left: Wanted for lewdness on the L train platform. Right: Loisaida Drugs & Surgicals, outside of which a June 18 police chase ended with a drug and gun bust. ( Photos: NYPD, Google Maps) Subway ‘Podophile’ Pursues Woman’s Feet; LES Car Chase Ends in Bust The approach of summer means that sandals, flip-flops and open-toed shoes abound on the feet of Gothamites. The fashion footwear... News 23 Jun 2025 | 07:27
