Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

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 [...]

Four days after our subway connection progress report, the subterranean construction work at the northeast corner of Lafayette Street and Houston is now capped with cement.  All hail the return of the sidewalk!

For the better part of a year, the retail stretch above the intersection of Lafayette and East Houston has been under siege.  Under siege by the new $96 million subway mega-project in the works to connect the Bleecker and Broadway-Lafayette stations.  But now those beleaguered businesses can finally breathe a sigh of relief.  The constant [...]

Contrary to our thoughts back in May, the Houston Street Capital Construction Project still lingers. Such Houston Headaches, as it were, continue to plague motorists and pedestrians alike. Between diverted traffic patterns, torn up roadway, and tall fencing, the intersection at Lafayette is one complex clusterfuck. We hope no accidents occur from all this. Related [...]

At the bustling junction of Houston and Broadway, there is now more evidence that the Capital Construction project is close to completion. Last Friday, landscape workers planted trees and shrubbery in the new concrete median of said intersection. We had to do a double-take, considering the whole area has been a disaster zone for years. [...]