Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

For the third consecutive year, Steve Nash is bringing his Showdown in Chinatown soccer (nay, futbol) match to the Lower East Side.  The event will be held in Sara D. Roosevelt Park on the Stanton Street field.  This year’s guest athletes include Claudio Reyna, Tony Parker, Simone Motto, Brandon Jennings, and Giuseppe Rossi.  Game time [...]

In keeping with the theme of soccer pop-up shops, another such concept is coming to 276 Bowery, onetime home of the Feature Inc. gallery.  In recent months, the interior was gutted and redesigned to accommodate this latest installation. Starting Friday night, the storefront will become a semi-temporary creative retail space by Nike, dubbed Stadium. Nice [...]

The Gem Hotel at 135 East Houston is now shrouded in an obtrusive Nike banner-ad. In case memory eludes you, this was the former location of a Howard Johnson. Poor Yonah Shimmel, threatened with the passage of each day.