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Registration is now open for 2026 Summer Camp at Chinatown YMCA! (Sponsored)

Y Summer Camp is the place where imaginations soar, curiosity reigns, and every child discovers a summer designed for them. Here, kids grow bolder, braver, brighter – ready for what’s next. An ...
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The Lo-Down Culture Cast – Beverly’s Founder Leah Dixon

We spoke with Leah Dixon, an artist and founder of Beverly’s, an artist-run bar and exhibition space which recently relocated ...
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JESSOR, A Show About the Architect of the Grand Street Co-ops, Opens Tomorrow at Citygroup

A new exhibition featuring the works of New York architect Herman Jessor, who designed more than 40,000 units of cooperative housing around New York City, including the co-ops along Grand Street is ...
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Elevator Service for Delancey Street Subway Station; New Housing at Essex Crossing

MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber with city officials April 4, 2025 on the Lower East Side. (MTA/Trent Reeves) The local community has been advocating for many years for an elevator at the Delancey ...
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Lower East Side Film Fest Announces Full 2025 Lineup

The Lower East Side Film Festival returns to the neighborhood for it’s 15th year on Thursday, May 1st – Monday, May 5th. In a fun tribute to their 15th anniversary, the lineup includes a screening of ...
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Lower East Side Remembers Beloved Bike Shop Owner Frank Arroyo

We’re sad to hear the news that Frank Arroyo, one of the most beloved members of the Lower East Side community, has passed away. There’s been an outpouring of support from the neighborhood on social ...
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Eva’s Kitchen Shutters on Grand Street

Eva’s Kitchen, a casual all-day cafe at 359 Grand St., has permanently closed after a little over a year in business. A notice breaking the news went up on the front door and on Eva’s website and ...
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Mark Bittman and Team Bring “Community Kitchen” Pilot Project to the Lower East Side

Food journalist, former New York Times recipe columnist and author of the renowned cookbook How To Cook Everything, Mark Bittman is creating a new type of restaurant with a focus on equitable access ...
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Kenny Scharf: A Surviving 80s Musketeer Returns to the LES

For a time they were The Three Musketeers of a white-hot art scene that erupted with such irrepressible momentum that it effortlessly consumed every established notion of what contemporary art should ...
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Retail Hang-Out Space Colbo Adds Wine Bar Next Door

The creative space and fashion hot spot Colbo has added a wine bar next door to it’s current shop at 51 Orchard Street. The wine bar is aptly titled Colbo Next Door and the team describes it as “an ...
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Zarin Fabrics: Looking Back at 80 Years on the Lower East Side

Bobby Zarin, Jill Zarin, David Zarin; December 2015. Photos courtesy of Zarin Fabrics/Andrew Werner. Bobby Zarin, Jill Zarin, David Zarin; December 2015. Photos courtesy of Zarin Fabrics/Andrew Werner ...