Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

White Collar Wednesday is upon us.  Later today, the easternmost part of Bleecker Street will play host to filming crews and their encroaching trailers.  We followed the trail of fluorescent “no parking” signs from Lafayette to Bowery, down to East Houston, and back again.

Yesterday evening, the Greenstreets watering truck was heading on a westerly course down East Houston.  Moving along at a snail’s pace, the tanker sprays a constant upward stream of water into the flowerbed.  And that’s precisely how the city’s traffic medians are watered when there hasn’t been much rain.  Mystery solved!

Cupcakes continue their assault on the city, and now represent a formidable foe to the fro-yo fad. And now Nolita will have its very own “green” cupcakerie.

Friends with Benefits is coming to the neighborhood.  Indeed, between 7 am and 5 pm tomorrow, a substantial swath of Nolita will be monopolized for the film shoot.  According to flyers in the immediate vicinity, filming is centered on Prince Street between Mulberry and Bowery; also, Elizabeth Street between Prince and East Houston.

[Photo Credit: Raoul Calleja]