Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

Friends with Benefits is coming to the neighborhood.  Indeed, between 7 am and 5 pm tomorrow, a substantial swath of Nolita will be monopolized for the film shoot.  According to flyers in the immediate vicinity, filming is centered on Prince Street between Mulberry and Bowery; also, Elizabeth Street between Prince and East Houston.

In an update to our post last week regarding Cinema Nolita, we now learn from a tipster that the video store will have a short reprieve.  The reader wrote in to say: “Just stopped by the store and they’d taken down the signs. Looks like they’ve got a couple weeks reprieve, but it sounds like [...]

Gawker confirms the dire retail situation on the ground in the NoLita neighborhood. Fashion week might be in full swing, but the boutiques carrying the crap are hurting: “Intern Whitney Jefferson traversed a few blocks around our front door — between Bowery and Laffayette, Houston and Kenmare — peering in the windows of cutesy boutiques [...]