Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

Yesterday was the culmination of Chinese Lunar New Year festivities, with the annual parade marching through the streets of the Lower East Side.  The weather was perfect for the occasion, warm without a cloud in the sky.  There were, however, plenty of NYPD choppers buzzing overhead.

On this day in 1907, the New York Times printed an article that, in hindsight, teems with explicit racism.  Entitled “Chinatown Doomed to Make Way for Bowery Park,” the piece is a snapshot of how many cityfolk perceived Chinatown at the turn of the century.  The crux of the argument – replacing Chinatown with a [...]

After an overwhelming amount of media hype, Snowmaggedon 2010 is now behind us.  Herewith, some obligatory pictures of the Lower East Side blanketed in slush and snow.  All shots were taken yesterday during the height of the blizzard.  Enjoy!

Google Maps has no love for Doyers or Pell Street; the “street view” function is not available for any address in this narrow slice of Chinatown.  It’s almost as if the roving Google camera car got lost (or lazy) and never had the chance to catalog this section of real estate.

But it’s probably for the [...]

The following open letter to Gawker was emailed to us from the NoLita Merchants Association.  It is a play-by-play challenge of the Recession Map which was originally published on Gawker just last week.  What are all of you seeing out there?  Send us your thoughts!
[photo via Gawker]
Sooo Sad, Sooo Wrong.
The “Nolita Sad Map” posted by [...]