Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

It might seem a tad cliche, but where would the fire department be without its trusty Dalmatian?  Yesterday morning, two trucks responded to an alert outside the Broadway-Lafayette subway station near Broadway and Houston.  As the firefighters were doing their business, this canine was watching over the gear inside Tower Ladder 9.  Cozy!

Shocking!  In a city that exploits every nook and cranny for advertising dollars, it’s definitely rare to see a subway entrance without some sort of billboard to welcome straphangers.  Like this one.  The Broadway-Lafayette access point adjacent to BP on East Houston recently lost its television-screen billboard.  It hadn’t been working for weeks. Looks so [...]

Since late March, the sidewalk outside NoHo Star at the corner of Bleecker and Lafayette has been under the knife due to the subway superstation project.  In the process, the downtown 6 station entrance was razed and concrete ripped up; the area became a complicated maze of fencework and plastic traffic barriers.  On numerous occasions, [...]

Upgrading city infrastructure usually comes at an exorbitant price – eviction, demolition, and population relocation.  Thanks to the superstation capital works project currently underway along East Houston and Lafayette, one of the Brooklyn Bridge-bound Bleecker Street subway entrances recently disappeared.  Leveled.

Now that another portion of the street-level work on the $96 million mega-station project is complete, some road repair seems next on the agenda.  Indeed, for the past few weeks, crews of construction workers have been filling in the deep pit outside the Puck Building on East Houston.  Steel supports run the length of the [...]

City buskers are well aware of the favorable acoustics on the main level of the Broadway-Lafayette subway stop.  Yesterday afternoon, this lone saxophonist was playing his heart out, and could be heard throughout the entire station.  His efforts netted a sizable reward in coin.