BREATHING 9/30/06
Stringer Says Feds Must Fess Up to Misleading Minors
by
Maibe González-Fuentes
The federal government must fess up to misleading minors by saying air quality was safe, says Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, and it must take action to provide funding to minors who were attending lower Manhattan schools in the days after 9/11, and are facing increased health risks...
Water main break disrupts Lower East Side
A water main break flooded several streets and the basement of Gouverneur Health Center on the Lower East Side, and shut off water service for residents of two blocks. Officials say the 12-inch main broke at the intersection of Henry and Clinton streets just after 11 AM. Water flooded through several local streets, but the water was shut off and quickly receded. Officials say the break caused flooding in the basement and the parking lot of Gouverneur.
IMAGES 9/29/06
Grand Entertainment
by
Pat Arnow
Could it be, yes it is, a man riding a tricked-out bike while carrying another bike over his shoulder. Impressive. That's the second-most-impressive carrying feat I've seen on a bike...
NEWSREADER 9/29/06
Screenwriter, 73, gets 5 Years for Lower East Side Child Molestation
by
Don Cruise
An elderly former screenwriter was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday for sexually violating a 5-year-old girl in her Lower East Side bedroom last year as her transsexual dad, who set up the tryst, sat, in drag, watching...
SLEUTH 9/28/06
Municipal Parking Lot Mystery Solved
by
Yori Yanover
For a few weeks now, a minor debate has been raging over the future of the municipal parking lot at the corner of Delancey and Essex Streets. Some readers have even predicted yet a new highriser, just across the street from the speedily rising Blue. But this afternoon we passed by the lot...
LANGUAGED 9/28/06
Messing With Words
by
Yori Yanover
I have the strangest hobby in the world. I enjoy messing with online translation services. Here’s one example, courtesy of the Altavista translator. I took a which appears each month on the Grand Street News editorial page, translated the whole thing into French, translated the French to German and then took it back home to English...
BOOK CLUBBING 9/28/06
Russian Immigrants As Inspiration
by
Pat Arnow
Two young authors have taken the 20th century immigrant Jewish experience as a backdrop for novels. That makes Dara Horn and T. Cooper extraordinarily appropriate writers to launch a reading series called "Young Writers Write the Immigrant Experience" at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum Oct. 11...
HOMICIDAL STREETS 9/28/06
Grand Street Kills
by
Yori Yanover
Last year I appealed to the CB3 traffic committee to do something about pedestrian safety on the block of Grand Street between the FDR Drive and Lewis. Now another life was claimed here, an elderly woman who was hit by a shuttle van. This is a terribly frightening block, with articulated and school busses cramming the south side, forcing traffic to a tortured trickle, and oncoming cars from the FDR entering at highway speeds...
BURDENS 9/27/06
Two Women on Madison Street
by
Yori Yanover
An elderly lady from East River Housing and her Asian attendant. The attendant was carrying a large package of adult diapers on her head, and appeared exceptionally adept at balancing it...
PLEASANT SURPRISES 9/27/06
Full City Takes to the Sidewalk
by
Yori Yanover
Yes, Full City has made good on their word and expanded onto the sidewalk, just in time for Indian Summer. It’s a cute sidewalk café, boys et girls, first of its kind in many blocks, and we expect a serious rise in business as a result...
LEGALITIES 9/27/06
The Story Behind Timothy's Law
by
Don Cruise
Timothy's Law is named after Timothy O'Clair, a Schenectady boy who committed suicide in 2001, seven weeks before his 13th birthday. His suicide was attributed to the discrimination that he faced at the hands of his parent's insurance company, discrimination that exists throughout every private insurance plan in New York State...
CIVIL ACTION 9/27/06
Images from the Board
by
Yori Yanover
At last night’s CB3 full-board meeting, several celebrities were on hand to usher in the new season and to touch base with board members and constituents. Thankfully, the board has decided to change its protocol regarding presentations from the public, opting to schedule those first, rather than forcing the citizenry to stay through the lingering debates before they get a chance to speak...
ROAD VIOLENCE 9/26/06
Pedestrian Hit by Shuttle Van on Grand & Lewis
by
Yori Yanover
Ilaid Irizzary, 80, a resident of East River Building 4, was hit at Around 11 AM today by a shuttle van on Grand Street, near Lewis. The shuttle was coming down Lewis Street, making a left onto Grand and struck her as she was crossing the street to southern sidewalk...
CRAZY MURDER 9/26/06
Nicole duFresne's Alleged Killer Banned from Own Trial
by
Don Cruise
Rudy Fleming, the 19-year-old accused of the Jan. 27, 2005 Lower East Side murder of 28-year-old actress Nicole duFresne, is still alive today only because four brave cops took the chance he wouldn't use his gun on them in a 2001 confrontation...
RESIDENTIAL 9/26/06
New Service, New Keys, at Vladeck Tenants’ Meeting
by
Yori Yanover
Nancy Ortiz, the Resident Council President, ran a tight ship, permitting very few digressions – both because the meeting started a bit late due to late-arriving guests, and because everybody was determined not to miss Fox’s Prison Break at 8:00 PM...
MEMORY AS IDENTITY 9/25/06
The Invention of the Lower East Side
by
Beth S. Wenger
In the 1920s and 1930s, the Lower East Side became a nostalgic center for New York Jews, a living reminder of an idealized immigrant world as well as a mirror of the past that reflected the extent of Jewish progress. By the interwar years, the Lower East Side was already a popular site for Jewish tourism and a place that Jews invested with cultural meaning...
LOBBY ART 9/25/06
Holiday Spirits
by
Liz MacAvery
Okay, I have to confess this. Not proudly, but not especially penitent either. It revolves around holiday decorations. Last year, I bought a blowup lighted witch for the lobby of Building One. She was green...
CIVIL RITES 9/25/06
Same-Sex Marriage Proposal at CB3
by
Dominic Pisciotta
On Tuesday, Sept. 26, Community Board 3 will address the New York Court of Appeals’ decision from this past July, 2006. It left it up to the legislature to decide whether or not same-sex couples can be legally married in New York...
SCHOOL PRIDE 9/24/06
Adorned Doors
by
Yori Yanover
All the teachers who were there, preparing for the new school year, insisted I shoot their amazing door decorations. It turns out the PS 110 students have not left a single classroom door without some artistic definition...
1903 CLIPPED 9/22/06
Real Old Movies
by
Pat Arnow
A fascinating four-minute film from the Thomas Edison Company in 1903 shows the opening of the
Williamsburg Bridge. You can see tenements, press guys in bowlers lugging big
cameras, dignitaries in top hats...
RUSSIAN VAUDEVILLE 9/22/06
Chekhov in a Pub
by
Jonathan Slaff
In "The Sneeze," the acclaimed author of "Noises Off" and "Copenhagen," Michael Frayn, serves up the four one-act comic vaudevilles with which Chekhov first made his reputation in the theatre, along with four adapted short stories. Rowan Atkinson, Cheryl Campbell and Timothy West first performed the piece at the Aldwych Theatre, London in 1988...
PASTORALIA 9/22/06
This Morning by the Williamsburg Bridge
by
Pat Arnow
Roses are still blooming and dogs still playing (a little scarily—you probably do not want to piss off dogs that go for a log with such alacrity) on the first day of fall in East River Park...
LACTATE INTOLERANCE 9/22/06
Teats "R" Us
by
Tibi Z. Singer
About 40 breast-feeding moms packed the sidewalk outside Toys "R" Us in Times Square yesterday to protest the store's alleged mistreatment of a woman who said staffers tried to stop her from nursing her infant there...
MOTIONLESS 9/21/06
Killer Congestion Confronted Cunningly
by
Maibe González-Fuentes
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Councilmember Daniel Garodnick along with local elected officials, Community Boards 6 and 8, local tenants associations and representatives from local Police Precincts, DOT and MTA will host two Town Hall meetings to discuss pressing transportation issues facing Manhattan's East Side.
To my dear friends:
After a complete tabulation of all the voting machines and paper ballots, with over 12,000 votes cast, the final count in the Civil Court election in the Second Municipal Court District resulted in Margaret Chan winning the election by a margin of 142 votes...
HOLY JAM 9/21/06
San Gennaro Pains
by
Tibi Z. Singer
OK, I’m officially sick and tired of the 79th Annual Feast of San Gennaro, which is making traffic between Allen and Center Streets a nightmare. Yesterday afternoon we were stuck for who knows how long behind a mover’s truck trying to maneuver on Baxter Street to make a left turn, but the congestion was so debilitating, with another freaking truck stuck half-way in the intersection. It was a horror show.
ENDGAME 9/21/06
The Race Is Over
by
Yori Yanover
Juda Engelmayer of Judge David Cohen’s campaign conceded last night, at 11 PM, his candidate’s narrow loss (“under a hundred votes”) to Chinatown-based immigration lawyer Margaret Chan. It’s time, then, to assess the new political map in our neck of the woods, where voters appeared entirely unmoved by the challenge of picking a new Civil Court Judge in Manhattan’s Second District (only about 12 thousand of us bothered to show up election day)...
HAIR TODAY 9/21/06
Styling with a Soundtrack
by
Ma Yafit
Proprietor Eleanor Berardis is very proud of her eclectic choice—From the 3 Tenors to Country, Soft Rock to Sinatra.
SOUP STOP 9/20/06
Mayor Visits Local Deli Before Rosh Hashanah
by
Tibi Z. Singer
Chef Michael Venice and deli proprietor Jacob Goldman (in a never before seen apron, after actually serving customers) showed Bloomberg around the store, exchanging niceties about the holiday, the importance of family and the playoffs...
HEALTHY DINNER 9/20/06
Gouverneur’s Future (With Eggrolls)
by
Yori Yanover
The Jin Fong Restaurant, at 20 Elizabeth Street, is so huge, it has two escalators leading up to the main room, on the second floor, and when you stare at one end from the other, some details become obscured by the haze. It’s a red and gold kind of hall, and last month it packed a huge number of locals who came to show their faith in and gratitude to Gouverneur Health Center...
LEVELED HOPES 9/20/06
Empty Lot Tea Leaves
by
Yori Yanover
People are starting to notice that the municipal parking lot south of Delancey, between Essex and Ludlow, has been completely ripped off the face of the planet, possibly by beings from a faraway galaxy with urgent parking concerns...
TOP PORCH 9/20/06
High Above the Earth in Seward
by
Yori Yanover
I just stood there, mesmerized by the immensity and bulk of this particular angle. Every shot revealed a new arrangement, new possibilities. The mix of the Co-op Village Soviet style, angular structures, with the Op-Art-like quality of the Bialystoker old age home building at the center of the group was breathtaking to me.
SAINTS AHOY! 9/19/06
Put on Your Tourist Shoes for San Gennaro
by
Pat Arnow
New Yorkers could learn something from the tourists at the San Gennaro Festival on this uncrowded, drizzly Tuesday afternoon. No one I talked to was from New York...
Does Alan Cumming Live Here?
We caught this cite in the Scotsman, and we wonder what part of downtown they consider to be the LES. For all we know, the talented Mr. Chumming could be living on 18th Street, judging by the recent coverage of the selling of Cooper Sq. But we digress. Do enlighten us if you know where the lad resides - we won't bother him, honest... Peeking through a crack in a door as the day's rehearsals wind down, it's the bottom half of him I see first. He's wearing orange, plastic sling-back jelly shoes and the sort of three-quarter-length breeks - well-cut, in an unusual shade of plum - that you must only be able to find on the zazziest corner of the zazziest Lower East Side shopping district of Manhattan, where Alan Cumming lives.
BLOOMBERG'S HERE 9/19/06
Mayor Shops 41 Essex for Rosh Hashanah
by
Don Cruise
While world leaders gather at the U.N., Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be in the LoHo neighborhood shopping for Rosh Hashanah.
HUDDLED MASSES TO COLLEGE 9/18/06
BP Stringer, CUNY, Announce New Immigration Project
by
Maibe González-Fuentes
Today, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer announced the creation of a new Citizenship Services Project as part of a collaboration with the City University of New York (CUNY) Citizenship and Immigration Project and the Borough President's Immigrant Rights Task Force.
SANCTUARY 9/18/06
Isolated Beauty
by
Yori Yanover
None of the usual accounts prepare you for the calm majesty of the Amalgamated courtyard. It’s a scene out of old fairy tales, as Viennese as the Bambi dreams of the Austrian workers who first erected this very structure thousands of miles from here...
MAMARIES 9/17/06
Lay your Hands Off our Breastfeeders!
by
Chana Frydman
Chelsi Meyerson, a mom of two from Brooklyn, found a quiet spot and began nursing her baby at the Toys R Us store in Times Square this past week. She was approached by several salespeople who told her she had to move to a room in the basement and they also called security...
WHAT’S IN A NAME 9/17/06 The Majestic Grand Street
by
Yori Yanover
Grand Street was named for its extraordinary width, which was astonishing in the eyes of the average colonist in 1766, when the street was laid out...
RAINY PARADE 9/16/06 Marching Girls and Blowup Stars
by
Yori Yanover
The volunteers from Macy's and the 50-piece all-girl marching band of Cathedral High School in Manhattan marched from the corner of Henry and Montgomery north to Grand Street, then made a right and poured into the Abrons Center Harry De Jur Playhouse for speeches...
FREEDOM 9/16/06 Seward Sun
by
Pat Arnow
Saturday, kids like this one came out to Seward Park, released from the week of school and rain, ready to play...
LOCAL MOVIE 9/16/06 The Protector
by
Nate Eckstrom
When Steve “Stone Cold” Austin lifts an adolescent elephant (that’s right, an adolescent elephant) off the ground to deliver a bestial version of his patented stone-cold stunner, it’s hard to believe that no animals were harmed in the making of this movie...
LOHOP 9/15/06 No Place Like Hip Hop
by
Don Cruise
The documentary There’s No Place Like Home: The History of Hip Hop in the Lower East Side is the untold story of Hip Hop’s road to success through the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and the artists who contributed to this success.
JAPANESE ABSURDISTS 9/15/06 Red Bird for Danger
by
Jonathan Slaff
"A Scene With A Red Bird" is a fable that centers around a blind woman and her younger brother, who decide to work off their parents' debt after their suicide. They are suppressed by a committee formed to investigate the parents' suicides...
JUNKIE MOM 9/15/06 New Play Vindicates Eugene O'neill's Mother
by
Jonathan Slaff
Eugene O'Neill was not kind to his mother in his memoir drama, "Long Day's Journey into Night," depicting her as a hapless morphine addict with no hope of recovery. "Miles to Babylon" by Ann Harson sheds new light on Ella O'Neill's drug addiction and runs counter to her scathing depiction in "Long Day's Journey into Night."
HAPPY DAYS 9/14/06 Macy’s Day Parade on Grand Street Friday
by Don Cruise
Yes, tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 15, as part of their first-ever "Give Back Day," some 400 Macy’s volunteers will march with a 50-piece all-girl band and a star balloon from the corner of Montgomery and Grand to the Abrons Center. It will be a 2-block parade to remember!
DEFENSIVE LINES 9/14/06 Yes, But Will It Save Bike Riders’ Lives?
by
Yori Yanover
City officials have announced that they’re adding 200 miles of new bike lanes and paths over the next three years. Motorists should be taught that when they block a bike lane – they may be sentencing a bike rider to death by traffic...
SCANDAL 9/13/06 Irregularities Looked at in Judicial Race
by
Yori Yanover
Rumors throughout the district are that Margaret A. Chan’s narrow lead in yesterday’s vote for Civil Court Judge in Manhattan’s Second District is mired in irregularities and may be challenged by one or both of her opponents, David Cohen and Andrea Masley (pictured).
INNOCENCE ABANDONED 9/13/06 Death in a Vacant Lot
by
Jonathan Slaff
Terayama Shuji's avant-garde film masterpiece, "Den'en ni Shisu (Death in the Fields)," has been adapted for the stage as "Death in Vacant Lot!" a play with music, by The South Wing, an international theater company now working in New York...
PRIVATE MEMORIAL 9/13/06 The Neighbors We’ve Lost
by
Don Cruise
We waited for the national media to slow down their coverage of the September 11 attacks. So that our own commemoration of local folks who perished in the WTC not disappear in the general din. Now we think it’s time to offer our own humble tribute.
THE VOTE 9/13/06 Senator Connor Defeats Challenger; Judge Cohen Trailing by 49 Votes
by
Yori Yanover
Two major races were on everybody’s mind: State Senator Martin Connor’s bout with challenger Ken Diamondstone, and the three-way race for Civil Court Judge between Margaret A. Chan, David Cohen, and Andrea Masley...
PRIMARY COLOR 9/12/06 How I Voted Today
by
Yori Yanover
There was very little to do at the voting machine this morning. Very few decisions. Almost everyone representing me and you is running unopposed in November, meaning, against a Republican, and, naturally, against Jim Lesczynski, the Libertarian challenger to Shelly Silver...
STRINGS ATTACHED 9/12/06 Ten Days of Nothing But Puppets
by
Jonathan Slaff
Vision Puppet Festival will be presented October 12 - 22 by Theater for the New City to celebrate the work of a unique group of New York artists who have been creating dynamic puppet theater for many years...
SAFETY 9/11/06 Welcome, Mr. President
by
Nate Eckstrom
Most of the people waiting at 42nd Street seemed slightly annoyed, but generally accepting that all this security was worth the President’s visit. This visit gives a degree of assurance to the people of New York that they are not alone in facing the threat of violence.
MEMORIAL MUNCH 9/11/06 Where’s George?
by
Yori Yanover
The entrance to Pitt Street, at Grand, like all the other strategic blocks, was blocked by huge trucks, packed with sand. The message was clear: GW Bush is the president with the greatest need for self-preservation since Abe Lincoln said, Mary, honey, let’s take a show tonight...
NEW SOUNDS 9/11/06 Downtown Radio
by
Luis R. Cancel
The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center is proud to announce its collaboration with East Village Radio, a Web-based broadcaster. Every Monday, starting on September 11, 2006 from Noon to 2:00 PM tune your computer and iPod to listen to Loisaida Cultural Wire...
RESOLUTION 9/11/06 Today I Saw Evil
by
Yori Yanover
I was working on my news report this morning and there was a faint boom in my background. We live on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, right off the FDR Drive that surrounds the island with a ribbon of five million cars each morning. Noise happens. Then my wife called and said there was a rumor somebody tried to blow up one of the Trade Towers, could I go look?
SORROW 9/10/06 An Adam Goldstone Reader
by Don Cruise
Born June 3, 1969. DJ, Producer and Artist who made his career in New York City, Adam Goldstone passed away on August 29, 2006, in a slip-and-fall accident in an RV shower at the Burning Man festival.
VISIT PAIN 9/10/06 Neighborhood Grimacing in Preparation for Dybia Breakfast
by Yori Yanover
Our local 7th precinct cops have been effectively shut out of the process of the presidential breakfast right on their own corner of Pitt and Delancey, aptly numbered 19.5 Pitt Street...
PRES VISIT 9/10/06 George and Laura Doing Pitt Street
by Yori Yanover
You have to have lived under a rock, and very close to the FDR Drive, not to know that President Bush is planning to mark the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on this city by inviting himself to breakfast tomorrow, Monday, with the big and burly men of the Pitt Street firehouse...
ART LIVES 9/09/06 Abrons Style ... and Substance
by Pat Arnow
When the Abrons Art Center course catalog arrived in the mail, the cover called out loud and proud. It's a thoughtful rendition of the center's place in the neighborhood and in the city...
GREEN LUNG 9/08/06 Sidewalk Agriculture Coming Back
by Yori Yanover
Our friend Liz MacAvery has brought to our attention the cornstalk growing on the sidewalk in front of Noah’s Ark, on Grand Street. She has no idea how it got there, but I suspect some undigested popcorn was probably instrumental...
MTV UNPLUGGED 9/08/06 Nina Nastasia Does Speigeltent
by Nate Eckstrom
Outside the Speigeltent, hidden away behind the old Fulton Fish Market, the line of fans wound along Pier 17, admiring the Brooklyn Bridge above, and the moonlit water below...
LOCATION LOCATION 9/08/06 Art in Odd Places
by Pat Arnow
If you walk around the neighborhood, look for the toy animals climbing up street signs on East 12th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues, or large prints of city icons plastered to the side of a building on Ludlow between Rivington and Stanton...
TOXIC 9/08/06 Town Hall Forum Demands Action on 9/11 Health Crisis
by Jonathan Bennett
The health impact of 9/11 on the community has been widespread and many people, including children, are suffering. One study (Reibman, et al.)has found a threefold increase in the onset of respiratory illnesses among downtown residents.
LOCAL READ 9/08/06 Crossing The Blvd
by Amy R Silberman
The Tenement Museum's New York Book Club welcomes Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan, co-authors of the Crossing the Blvd: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America. Come to hear stories of an Egyptian café owner, a political refugee cargo flight stowaway, students from International High School...
TESTIMONY 9/07/06 Don't Give Money to Crazies
by Scott M. Stringer
It is no secret that the All Stars Project, Inc. has come under intense scrutiny over the last few years for its purported financial misconduct, and has been reported to promote a sexually abusive and religiously insensitive workplace.
SUCCESS 9/07/06 Let Us March Together on Saturday to Celebrate!
by Jonathan Bennett
At last, the federal, state and city governments are all beginning to acknowledge that tens of thousands of workers, volunteers and others have been made sick by 9/11-related contamination and they must have access to monitoring, screening and healthcare.
PRE-CEREMONY 9/07/06 Lights Rehearsal
by Pat Arnow
Last night they practiced placing the beams for the Tribute in Light that will memorialize 9/11. The twin towers of light will shine from sunset on Monday 9/11 until dawn, for the fifth anniversary of the fall of the World Trade Center.
NEW HEALTH 9/06/06 Clinton, Nadler to Introduce Major New 9/11 Health Legislation
by Jonathan Bennett
Congressman Jerrold Nadler and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will introduce the 9/11 Comprehensive Health Benefits Act, an entirely new approach to providing individuals with illnesses related to 9/11 access to health benefits through the Federal Government...
YEASTY 9/06/06 The Trouble With Amish Friendship Bread
by Liz MacAvery
I apologize because what happens to you may not be the case for me when your suburban friends visit. Sometimes, I need friends to know why I live here. No, we're not broke, no, we didn't lose it all in the tech bubble...
LABOR LEGENDS 9/06/06 The ILGWU’s High Holidays Strike
by Nancy L. Green
The 1909-10 strike began over the issue of whether the company union at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company would distribute ten dollars in aid to needy families as the Jewish high holidays approached. The company refused, and the workers at Triangle turned to the umbrella organization of United Hebrew Trades for help.
URBAN ZOOLOGY 9/05/06 Myths of the Mysterious Black Squirrel
by Don Cruise
On the east side of Montgomery Street, between Henry and Madison, lives a legendary black squirrel who is fearless and feisty and doesn’t take crap from anybody. I watch him on occasion when he’s showing the local pigeons who’s boss. Don’t mess with this one!
SHROUDED EDUCATION 9/04/06 A Tale of Three Schools in Two Buildings
by Yori Yanover
When you mix soft racism with broken renovation promises to the parents of the largely Black and Hispanic students, plus allegations of an unsafe air quality and a shrouded facade, plus a Con-Ed power failure which forced the contractors to bring in two diesel-powered generators – the result is very unhappy.
WHAT'S IN A NAME 9/04/06 Seward Park Named After Republican Party Champion
by Don Cruise
William Henry Seward became Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln, and revealed his own desire to dominate the President in a peculiar memorandum to Lincoln, in which he proposed waging war against most of Europe so as to unite the nation...
WALKING TOUR 9/04/06 Some Unexpected Notions About My Neighborhood
by Yori Yanover
The sign, "Why Catholic?" on the front of St. Mary's on Grand Street, caught my eye. It's strange to see a Catholic church, perhaps the most organized of all organized religions, asking so publicly that which many have asked so often over the millennia...
MEAN POLITICS 9/03/06 Ken Diamondstone Doing the Nasty
by Yori Yanover
this summer, Brooklyn Community Board 2 member, housing developer Ken Diamondstone has been seeking the New York State Senate’s 25th District seat, occupied by former minority leader Senator Martin Connor. And the style of Diamondstone’s campaign has been nothing short of nasty.
WHAT’S IN A NAME 9/03/06 The Unglamorous Chrystie Street
by Don Cruise
Chrystie Street, which is Second Avenue's name below Houston, is named, like several Lower East Side streets, for a hero of the War of 1812. Lt. Col. John Chrystie (Columbia class of 1806) led two unsuccessful attempts to invade Canada...
BLACKOUT FEARS 9/02/06 Is Con-Ed's LoHo Area Grid Deteriorating?
by Yori Yanover
Councilmember Alan J. Gerson pointed at two large diesel generators that stood by the curb near the Henrietta Szold PS 134, at 293 East Broadway, the corner of Grand Street. "All we're doing is renovating a school here," said Gerson, "and that is enough to put the power over the edge."
GRAND STREET NEWS 9/01/06 We Have Nice Cops Down Here
by Sara Levin
Cops and Neighbors... Saving Space... Comptroller Whips NYCHA over Vladek... Maloney, Local Officials, Decry Failed Policies at Town Hall Meeting... 500 in Bialystoker Vigil for Israel... Gouverneur Announces Annual Dinner, Ambitious Project... Officer Valdie Lurch Ends 20 years of Stellar Community Service... Flowers Cafe Owner Opens Flower Shop... Casualties of Summer... Synagogue Parading With New Scroll...
THE NICE SOUND 9/01/06 Pop-Geek Heavenly Music - Free
by Nate Eckstrom
I was high on the Spinto Band two months ago, when they played the Bowery Ballroom for $15. Now they are playing the South Street Seaport for FREE this Friday...
BARD REDUX 9/01/06 Hilarious Compact Shakespeare Now Served with Drinks
by Jonathan Slaff
An irreverent, fast-paced romp through all 37 plays and 154 sonnets in just 96 minutes. Improvisation plays a heavy role and it is normal for the actors to deviate from the script and break into spontaneous conversations about the material with each other and the audience.
