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Given the number of high rises (4,000?, 5,000?) going up in the neighborhood ... yesterday's deadly crane tragedy in Turtle Bay gives u...

The current Time Out New York has a Lower East Side map circa 1882 that spans Houston to Broome Streets between Norfolk Street and the Bowe...

It has been a whirlwind few days of investigative reporting for the New York Post . Sunday, in an EXCLUSIVE , the paper told of a "shad...

There were times when I'd walk around the neighborhood...and the vibe I'd get could be set to a song and video like the following fr...

An aside: Because all the models I know drink Guinness.

This plaque is on a building on East Ninth Street between Avenue A and First Avenue. I'm always happy that such tributes survive through...

Hate to say it, but this was all too inevitable. From this week's issue of The Villager : Discount stores, ethnic restaurants and small ...

There's a feature on Bronx-born Richard Price today in the Times. His new novel, Lush Life , is set in the Lower East Side, and conce...

I've always been fascinated by the numerous bicycles chained to just about anything in the neighborhood. Difficult to tell sometimes whi...

Funny, how we all had the same thought a few weeks back when we noticed the bodega on the southeast corner of 14th Street and 3rd Avenue and...

This week's New York magazine has a short piece on Sophie's staying the same, titled "Dive Alive: How did Sophie's surviv...

The high winds we had here last night helped bring down the scaffolding in front of St. Brigid's on Avenue B. At 6:45 a.m., cops had th...

To be honest, plenty of things need saving in the East Village -- St. Brigid's chief among them. There's a "keep the flame aliv...

No idea how we came across this footage. It's described as: "Loretta on East 10th Street Rooftop. Summer of 1990. Remembering the d...

Photographer Ali Smith worked the day shift at Sophie's in the early '90s. During that time, she captured all the regulars who help...

Ah, back before the condos...American Apparel...the Bench. (Uh, OK. We didn't live here then. Still! It still looked a lot like this whe...

The art of smiling had a short post that was in reaction to the news of Sophie's as reported by Jeremiah's Vanishing New York . Mar...

Our favorite New York-related blog, Jeremiah's Vanishing New York , had an excellent post Jan. 2 on Sophie's. He spoke with owner Bo...

Local independent businesses in the East Village have had a challenging time making a living in recent years. Here's a group trying to h...