Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

Grub Street is reporting that a new Hester Street Fair is coming to the empty dead-end park space at Essex Street.  It will be a seasonal flea market of sorts, running between the hours of 10 am and 6 pm on Saturdays and Sundays.

To all of our Jewish readers, HAPPY PURIM!
[Photo via Serious Eats]

The other day, we happened upon this NYCRS real estate listing [pdf] for 355 Grand Street, at the southwest corner of Essex.  From the look of it, Flowers Cafe, the quaint pop culture-themed coffee shop located inside the ground level, is up for sale. Asking price is $375,000 in key money.

The Lower East Side Locksmith at 129 Rivington has been out of commission for months now. Another mom-and-pop hardware store gone the way of the dodo.  From its ashes rises a new pop-up shop (surprise, surprise) aptly entitled The Key Shop.  It’s essentially a joint venture between Assembly New York, currently located at 174 Ludlow, [...]

In a post last week, Jeremiah discussed the trajectory of smut along the Deuce (if it can even be called that anymore).  Adult bookshops sprang up in the thirties, and became increasingly more hardcore over the years.  As technology changed, so did the industry, and peep shows, video, and DVD shops eventually took control. The [...]