Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

That old school street ingenuity still reigns free on the Bowery.  Indeed, earlier this week, we watched in awe as a pair of sidewalk dwellers meticulously pried open the base of a nearby street lamp to bogart its electric lifeblood.  But not without reasonable cause.  Their nineties-era Sony boombox with detachable speakers needed a proper [...]

After hanging above the corner of Lafayette and East Houston for years, Sony has finally surrendered the valuable NoHo perch to the fashion industry. Gone is the epileptic PSP.  Now the billboard sports an anorexic H&M advertisement.  End of an era, folks. Condo owners at SHoP’s 290 Mulberry are probably quite happy. [February 2009]