Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

[Photo Credit: Raoul Calleja]

After dark, the New Museum turns on a projector which blasts an epileptic assortment of Rorschach-inkblot-esque images onto the building facade of 243 Bowery.  The looped video is part of a three-pronged exhibition at the museum by artist Amy Granat, dubbed Light 3 Ways.

Right now, on one of the hottest, most sweltering days thus far this summer, hundreds are queued outside the Apple Store in SoHo for the new iPhone 4.  The line wraps around Greene Street, east along Houston, and back south onto Wooster.  Almost a whole city block!

The retail transition at the corner of Bowery and Prince Street is now complete.  The last vacant storefront – former home of Cowboy Shoe Repair – is now accounted for.  Meet The Fresh Prince.

Bicycle safety enhancements on the Lower East Side continue.  Early Friday morning, DOT personnel were out painting a cyclist left turn lane at the eastern junction of Bowery and Prince Street, right outside the New Museum.  By the end of the day, the project was fully realized.