Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

After an overwhelming amount of media hype, Snowmaggedon 2010 is now behind us.  Herewith, some obligatory pictures of the Lower East Side blanketed in slush and snow.  All shots were taken yesterday during the height of the blizzard.  Enjoy!

Cafe Colonial sympathizes with “those struggling financially.”  A makeshift sign in their Houston-facing window advertises a $6.50 hamburger meal Monday through Friday.

As stated on this flyer at the corner of Elizabeth and East Houston, an enterprising person is desperate to shovel snow. Cars are $20, but the vagueness of the “anything else” pricing category is rather amusing.

Letters to Juliet might have a theatrical release date of May 7, but it’s still filming last-minute scenes on the streets of the Lower East Side.  Today’s shoot is on Elizabeth Street, and will spill over onto Spring.  The feature stars Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, and Gael García Bernal.

This past Sunday was the one-year anniversary of trendy nightspot Double Crown, once home to Manahatta.  Longtime reader REC was there and filed the following report of the evening:
Last Sunday Double Crown was the best place (and perhaps the only place) to be for post-Halloween revelry.  Celebrating its one year anniversary, Double Crown went all [...]

The following open letter to Gawker was emailed to us from the NoLita Merchants Association.  It is a play-by-play challenge of the Recession Map which was originally published on Gawker just last week.  What are all of you seeing out there?  Send us your thoughts!
[photo via Gawker]
Sooo Sad, Sooo Wrong.
The “Nolita Sad Map” posted by [...]