Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

The home of Eisner Brothers on Essex Street has fallen prey to some guerrilla promo for the new Belle & Sebastian record, Write About Love.  The album title is chalked in rainbow colors on the rear brick facade of 75 Essex Street, facing the municipal parking lot.

Over the weekend, the security gates were raised at 39 Essex Street, now home to Sweet Grapes Wine Bar.  A handful of people were congregated inside, talking and watching TV on the fresh LCD screen. We were told that the new drinking establishment will begin serving once the licensing paperwork arrives, expected within three to [...]

All it takes is a rickety battery-powered amp and a CD player in a brown-paper bag to get things going.  Such was the case on a recent Saturday evening outside the OTB at 105 Delancey, where the Salsa music was cranked to eleven. Yet, amidst the end-of-day departure of the usual gang of gamblers, a [...]

Rob Shaliman is the man behind a number of Lower East Side nightlife institutions, including Mason Dixon, Spitzer’s Corner, Los Feliz, and Fat Baby.  He sat down with Metromix to discuss his string of bars and plans for future expansion. [Los Feliz Chalk]

17 Orchard Street has been under wraps since our previous checkup in September 2009, when the Silkstone catering company was seeking a full liquor license for the space; Community Board 3 subsequently denied their application. But now a year later, there are signs of life anew behind the cast iron facade.  The Silkstone founders – Britons [...]

Preliminary preparations for the large-scale East Houston capital works project are now underway (project #HWMP2019). Flyers along the thoroughfare indicate that the Department of Design and Construction (DDC) will be punching so-called “Test Pits” in the pavement between Chrystie and Pitt Street by mid-September.