Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

In response to our post regarding the new nightlife establishment at 168 Elizabeth Street, owner Matthew Maddy emailed us his side of the story.  Apparently the sub-level digs won’t be a beer garden as posited by flyers along the Bowery.

The middle section of Elizabeth Street is trying desperately to unite against a new subterranean beer garden moving into number 168.  The ambiguous entity of “Matthew Oliver Maddy d/b/a Hot Talk LLC” is currently seeking a liquor license at next week’s Community Board 2 meeting.  Flyers along Bowery urge those residents within earshot to write [...]

Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, would be extremely happy with the grammar vigilante who marked up this flyer at the southeast corner of East Houston and Mulberry Street.  It’s all well and good, order has been restored to the universe.

In the early eighties, a unique underground community developed around the then-revolutionary technology of answering machines.  The concept was dubbed the Apology Line, and was the brainchild of artist Alan Bridge.  His social experiment in anonymous confessions lasted until his untimely death in 1995, and is now the subject of a new independent documentary.

T-Poutine is desperately seeking a beer and wine license from the State Liquor Authority.  At last month’s Community Board 3 meeting, their request was denied on the grounds of noise complaints and lack of support (and signatures) from neighbors. Now the late-night grease pit has taken to Ludlow Street, canvassing the immediate vicinity with flyers [...]

There’s a big promotional push happening in the neighborhood right now for travel to Miami. Taped to light poles along the Houston corridor, from east to west, are dozens of advertisements with the tagline “express yourself.”  As if people here really needed to be told to visit Florida.