Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

A real estate listing surfaced on Craigslist yesterday for 147 Orchard Street, the tiny storefront which was most recently occupied by Guitar Man (now headquartered at 116 East Seventh Street).  The space has been vacant for over four months, with “for rent” signs hanging behind drawn shutters.

In the last number of years, businesses at 74 Orchard Street have struggled to survive. Ultimately, each met their doom. During this tumultuous period, three different eateries called the space home – Ronald’s Pizza Cafe, Sonia Rose, and most recently, the South African themed Bunny Chow.

You may want to sit down and brace yourself for this.  Hot on the heels of news that a music-themed reality show would invade the Lower East Side, another program on a “major cable network” is allegedly in the works.  Yesterday, a reader commented that Central Casting called, propositioning him to participate in a new [...]

Rather predictably, the ninth annual No Pants Subway Ride organized by Improv Everywhere earlier this week has the Craigslist Missed Connections forum abuzz.  As of last night, there are six relevant posts.

[Photo via NY Times]
Well, folks, it was only a matter of time before the Lower East Side got its own reality show.  Dubbed The Scene…LES, the new program is produced by Jimmy Lloyd Productions, and ”straddles the line between the music world and the real life drama of up and coming Singer-Songwriters who live around and [...]

Without a doubt, the Missed Connections section of Craigslist provides nothing short of endless entertainment.  One such posting published last week describes a young woman with a cat mask approaching a guy with a Viking hat, likely during the recent East Village Viking pub crawl.  It was the proverbial love at first sight…at 4 am.