Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

It was only a matter of time before all the neighborhood filming for USA Networks’ White Collar finally premiered on the small screen. Episode number six (“All In”), which aired this past Friday, was focused in “the seedy underbelly of New York’s Chinatown.”  The protagonists are in pursuit of villains through their high-stakes games of Pai [...]

Over the weekend, a neighborhood tipster brought word that the 89-year-old institution Nom Wah Tea Parlor on Doyers Street was recently felled by the Department of Health for sanitary violations.  Indeed, notice was issued on October 3, and then again on October 27.  We stopped by on Saturday afternoon and noticed that the doors were open, and [...]