Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

Hotels are again the talk headache of the neighborhood.  Fresh off blockbuster news that a Comfort Inn is moving into 136 Ludlow (just across from the UN!), there is now visible activity to report at the corner of Suffolk and Delancey, future site of Sam Chang’s hotel venture.

It’s been a steady eight months of inactivity at 148-154 Delancey.  Last summer, the row of old-school retail was razed to make way for Sam Chang’s new six-story Holiday Inn hotel venture. Since that time, however, the empty sandlot at the northeast corner of Suffolk Street has become little more than a receptacle for neighborhood [...]