Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

The new NYU facility planned for the Provincetown Playhouse footprint is progressing rather briskly.  Indeed, since our last progress report back in November, four additional levels have been built. At this pace, the legal research center, which will reportedly top out at six stories, should be completed by the summer 2010 projected date.  Whether or not [...]

Love or loathe it, the perennial student hangout Esperanto Cafe has closed its doors for good.  The requisite brown paper is taped to the windows of 114 MacDougal Street, and the interior is being cleared out. We called the listed phone number, which, as it happens, is now disconnected.

The big boys have come out to play at 58 Washington Square South, site of the new NYU spiritual center. Parked in the dirt lot is a towering pile driver and ginormous backhoe. Both pieces of heavy machinery seem ready for action.

In the three weeks since the huge crane arrived at 133-139 MacDougal Street, construction of the new NYU Law School facility has progressed briskly.  As of this week, the replacement building is finally starting to rise above the foundation.  Almost one floor to be exact.

A tipster sent in the following information last night:
Five gunshots were heard around 4:25am. Several ambulance and cop cars arrived within seconds at Bowery and 2nd Ave in front of Lyric Opera/NYU dorm. It seemed like they stayed for 10 minutes or so, a few people were talked to (someone may have gone into the [...]

The construction site at 58 Washington Square South, the footprint of the old NYU Catholic Center, just got a bit more interesting.  Sitting on scaffolding up above street level is this fairly ordinary office trailer.  Given the strength of the iron bars and such, we shouldn’t be too worried, right?  Nevertheless, it still gives us [...]