Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

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 [...]

An African American male, aged approximately 25 to 30, is wanted in connection with a series of burglaries along Orchard Street between Delancey and Canal.  Since June 28, the perpetrator has been preying off unsuspecting residents between the hours of 10 am and 11 pm.  Dozens of wanted posters are now hanging in doorways and [...]

Our fellow computer nerds out there might remember a little PC game called Jezzball, in which the gamer had to isolate bouncing balls in the smallest possible space.  It was packaged with the Microsoft operating system in the 1990s, and was incredibly addictive.  The perfect time waster. Well, street writer Love Wash recently name-dropped the [...]

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.

The longtime Lower East Side workers advocacy group called National Mobilization Against Sweatshops (NMASS) recently succumbed to some of the very forces they aim to combat. NMASS was forced from its 59 Hester Street location thanks in large part to the nearby 55 Hester condo development, which itself came at the expense of Gertel’s Bakery.  We [...]

Today we head down to Hester Street to follow up on the forthcoming Wyndham Garden Hotel at the southeast corner of the Bowery. The concrete beast is now officially capped, boasting the customary American flag at its apex.