Posted: March 4, 2010 at 6:18 am
Joe’s Apartment remains an amusing legacy of a bygone era in MTV history – the early nineties. At the time, the so-called music television channel was defined by music videos (remember those?) and a host of creative programming, including Liquid Television and The State. NOT Jersey Shore!
Posted: March 4, 2010 at 6:11 am
[Photo via The Bowery Boys]
By the late 1800s, many in Manhattan were already glorifying characters in downtown gangs, much the same way society glorifies mob culture today. As this article published in the New York Times on August 17, 1879 reveals, the Bowery Boy remained a romanticized interest to city folk long after the hoodlums disappeared from the scene. The piece is one part history, two parts lamentation. Travel back in time again with this edition of On the Old Bowery!
Posted: March 3, 2010 at 1:28 pm
The woman who shook Shake Shack’s plans in Nolita, the L Magazine Bar Awards and your last chance to see the John Farris exhibition, all in today’s neighborhood news roundup!
Posted: March 3, 2010 at 6:32 am
339 Lafayette, located at the northeast corner of Bleecker Street, just hit the open market courtesy of Massey Knakal. Aptly nicknamed the Peace Pentagon, the three-story Muste Building is currently home to Socialist Party USA (SPUSA), War Resisters League, and Paper Tiger Television, among others. The building itself is owned by the A.J. Muste Institute, and has a long history of activism.
Posted: March 3, 2010 at 6:23 am
Starting tonight, Gallery Bar at 120 Orchard Street will be hosting an exhibition of photography entitled Sampling and Revisions: The LES Deframed. The neighborhood-centric showcase will feature archival stills from the Tenement Museum collection alongside more contemporary work. Opening reception is at 7 pm, but the event itself will run through March 24.
[Photo via Tenement Museum]
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