Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

How would you feel about having Keanu Reeves and company film a feature in your living quarters? If you’ve always had that burning desire, and you live in the immediate environs of Hester Street between Orchard and Essex, now is definitely the time to capitalize.

New York City sanitation routes take center stage in the new music video for twenty-two-year-old Samuel’s “I Heart NY.”  Aided by his producers The Knocks, he seems to be having a little too much fun hanging off the back of the truck.

To all the brave Chinatown bus travelers out there, beware of swindlers outside the Fung Wah pickup at 139 Canal Street. Exactly what said swindlers have done in the past could probably fill a book, so the infamous bus company has a warning sign pasted to the door.

[Photo Credit: Sepavo]

Holy Happy Shabu, Batman, the scaffolding is gone from the Jarmulowsky Bank Building on Canal Street. For years, this corner became a multipurpose space for graffiti artists and homeless alike.  Not anymore.