Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

Just two short months after Esperanto Cafe called it quits, a new java joint is opening a few doors north at 124 MacDougal Street.  Signs hanging in the papered windows above the underground Rabbit Club advertise a Pubblico Espresso Bar.

Not too long ago, this tall drink of water was pacing the sidewalk outside Ciao on Bleecker Street, singing at the top of his lungs.  It sounded like he was practicing his scales.

Tomorrow night, the Bowery Poetry Club is hosting a benefit for Tuli Kupferberg, famous poet, author, and co-founder of rock group The Fugs.  Kupferberg recently suffered two strokes and is now blind.  Funds raised during this event will help pay for his medical costs.

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, [...]

Almost three months ago, 99 Below, the cellar bar at 99 MacDougal Street, was slapped with a vacate order due to conditions “imminently perilous to life.”  It was an event from which the relatively new establishment would not recover.

154 Bleecker had been enclosed in a sidewalk shed since mid-November of last year, wrapped in a colorful “coming soon” advertisement.  At the time, there really wasn’t a clear indication of the new tenant.  No longer.  Now the plywood is gone, the identity of the operation finally public – a new fast food vegetarian eatery [...]