Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

It might not be a happy ending for the swanky bi-level club at 302 Broome Street.  The current owner of the ground level and basement commercial condo units is yanking the rug from beneath Happy Ending.

Those sidewalk mechanic shops that randomly dot the neighborhood are an interesting breed.  Lacking any proper garage or lot, vehicles are mostly serviced curbside, directly in the path of oncoming traffic.  Case in point, Y.S. Tires at 97 Allen Street.

One unit inside the Jewish Daily Forward condo building at 175 East Broadway is now available…to rent.  Just last week, a listing recently surfaced on Halstead via Craigslist for a one-bedroom apartment on the fourth floor.  And we’re still scratching our heads at the asking price – $3,300!

The River Ridge Condo building at 78 Ridge Street is not practical.  It was built at the peak of the gold rush in 2007, and is situated on perhaps the worst possible plot in the Lower East Side – practically on top of the Williamsburg Bridge approach.  As Curbed often noted in the past, apartment [...]

264 Bowery is a four-story tenement building sandwiched between two active restaurant supply companies – Globe Slicers to the north and Hawaii Restaurant Equipment to the south.  The narrow ground-level storefront has been dormant for years, but was once the home of Sosinna’s Cafe, an Ethiopian-Latin-Caribbean fusion joint, which originally opened back in mid-2001.

Back in the early days of 2007, Tonic shuttered after nearly a decade of entertaining the community.  Pretty much an eternity in city time.  Since its demise, the onetime bastion of Lower East Side music has remained vacant, nearly forgotten in the deep dark shadows of Blue. Even though it’s languished on the open market [...]