Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

Local performer-slash-comedienne Jessica Delfino (and Alex M. Smith) is heading to the Gulf on a dual-pronged mission to both volunteer in oil cleanup, and to capture the BP crisis firsthand for her new documentary.  The feature-length film is called Dirty Rainbow: Crisis in the Gulf, and will focus on “the people of New Orleans and [...]

Last week, some anti-BP wheat-paste surfaced in the intersection of East Houston and Lafayette, just a stone’s throw from the gas station itself.  The hyperlocal backlash to the environmental catastrophe continues.

For a solid few years, 153 Essex Street has been an eyesore of a building, encased in dark netting and cordoned off by rotten sidewalk plywood.  It was essentially a push-up job - adding a small tumor to the original five-story building – but never appeared to have a clear completion date in sight. In the [...]

As Jeremiah has meticulously documented this past week, the street seems to have little love for the new Shepard Fairey mural at the corner of Bowery and East Houston. As if target practice wasn’t enough, in the last 24 hours, it appears someone kicked a rather large hole through the paneling, revealing a colorful section [...]