Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

Just two short months after Esperanto Cafe called it quits, a new java joint is opening a few doors north at 124 MacDougal Street.  Signs hanging in the papered windows above the underground Rabbit Club advertise a Pubblico Espresso Bar.

Not too long ago, this tall drink of water was pacing the sidewalk outside Ciao on Bleecker Street, singing at the top of his lungs.  It sounded like he was practicing his scales.

Almost three months ago, 99 Below, the cellar bar at 99 MacDougal Street, was slapped with a vacate order due to conditions “imminently perilous to life.”  It was an event from which the relatively new establishment would not recover.

Filming for Morning Glory makes a return to the downtown area today, despite the hard rains of the past few days and the impending snow storm.  The shoot will take place on Bleecker Street, between MacDougal and Thompson.

Aurora, the trinket-slash-old-school-boutique shop at 185 Bleecker Street is out of business.  In fact, if the notice attached to the window is any indication, the self-proclaimed “fabulous boutique” was legally possessed by the Marshal’s Office on February 9.

Soup and ice cream is an odd marriage of foods, but that’s not stopping Tasti D-Lite from diversifying its offerings.  For the last couple months, the Soup Man (nay Nazi) franchise popularized by Seinfeld has been operating out of the 190 Bleecker Street outpost.