Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

Four months ago, the New York Times first brought news that neighborhood favorite Il Laboratorio del Gelato was expanding its empire into 188 Ludlow Street, a high-end rental building also known as The Ludlow.  Since the bombshell dropped, though, the ground level cornershop has remained relatively idle.  There were little, if any, signs that the [...]

Two warnings were levied against this blue bike, currently chained to the scaffolding outside the stalled Hotel Ludlow site.  The passive aggressive urban etiquette techniques (dated May 31) are not working, though, since the bike remains in place as of this morning.

There’s a big promotional push happening in the neighborhood right now for travel to Miami. Taped to light poles along the Houston corridor, from east to west, are dozens of advertisements with the tagline “express yourself.”  As if people here really needed to be told to visit Florida.