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Alex at Flaming Pablum has his tickets for the WNYC-hosted forum tomorrow morning titled "The Places that Bind: Examining Preservation...

Plenty of change has come to Avenue C in recent years, of course...Let's just take a look at one small section of it... There are six st...

A few passages from the real-estate section in the Post today, specifically the cover story titled "More or LES." The neighborhoo...

This Page 1 article in the San Francisco Chronicle today caught my attention...: It's one of the seediest stretches in San Francisco,...

This week's issue of The Villager reports on the results of the Good Old Lower East Side survey titled, “No Go for Local Business: The ...

Spotted on Third Avenue near 11th Street. I mean, if you're in this target demographic, are you supposed to find this cute? "Oh, ha...

I'm currently reading a rather academic book titled "From Urban Village to East Village: The Battle for New York's Lower East S...

The real estate section in the Post today takes a look at an up-and-coming part of town called the Bowery. Sounds interesting. Street gang...

Good news from the City Room about the former school at 605 E. Ninth St. between Avenue B and Avenue C: A justice in State Supreme Court ha...

Excerpts from a Times piece titled " Failed Deals Replace Real Estate Boom :" After seven years of nonstop construction, skyrocke...

The Daily News takes a look at Red Square on East Houston: Conceived by self-proclaimed radical sociologist-turned-real-estate-developer [...

Politics as Puppetry has an essay today titled New York City Anti-Gentrification Movements - A Catalog of Failure An excerpt: Rising rents i...

There's a piece in the travel section of The Boston Globe today titled "New art museum in the Bowery attracts galleries -- and ge...

[Photo by Stephen L Harlow, via his Flickr page .] In the last few weeks, I've posted several archival articles that discussed the gent...

The Sep. 17, 1984, issue of Time magazine included this brief : After three days of hammering and sawing, Jimmy Carter, 59, looked more lik...

I recently posted the May 28, 1984, New York magazine cover story titled "The Lower East Side: There Goes the Neighborhood." WELL...

Here are a few videos from the Bowery Wine Company protest tonight . (Apologies if they look as shaky and grainy as Cloverfield . Still lear...

From The Village Voice : The ongoing war between the forces of gentrification and the middle and working classes of the "old New York&q...

The latest issue of The L Magazine has a piece a short piece on the new John Varvatos boutique on the Bowery: In many ways, it’s the perfec...