Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

[Photo Credit: Robert Carmona]

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.

Whether it’s material possessions or services for hire, people will use neighborhood street furniture as a marketplace to sell anything. The tear-away-tab fliers taped to lightposts, magazine boxes, and the like seem to get more bizarre over time.  Take, for instance, one such posting on Essex Street which is trying to hawk stick shift lessons to a population [...]

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That old school street ingenuity still reigns free on the Bowery.  Indeed, earlier this week, we watched in awe as a pair of sidewalk dwellers meticulously pried open the base of a nearby street lamp to bogart its electric lifeblood.  But not without reasonable cause.  Their nineties-era Sony boombox with detachable speakers needed a [...]