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NY: Lower East Side Annual Meeting

Lower East Side Partnership holds annual meeting

Posted on September 27, 2023

Donald Johnson at Lower East Side homeless encampment

Nomads of New York: Formerly homeless man helps unhoused Lower East Side individuals avoid losing everything in street sweeps

Posted on September 20, 2023

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Cyclist plows into woman in Murray Hill, leaving her in critical condition: cops

Posted on September 20, 2023

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Authorities release footage of bicyclist wanted for fatal hit-and-run that claimed the life of Lower East Side woman

Posted on September 19, 2023

NY: Beastie Boy Square Unveiling

‘Ch-check it out:’ Lower East Side street co-named ‘Beastie Boys Square’

Posted on September 10, 2023

A concert at Rockwood Music Hall.

Rockwood Music Hall launches concert series and GoFundMe to keep venue from possible closure

Posted on July 5, 2023

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Mystery continues into death of man found floating off Lower East Side’s Pier 35

Posted on July 4, 2023

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18-year-old fatally shot on Lower East Side street: NYPD

Posted on June 26, 2023

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Teen shot and killed outside Lower East Side smoke shop: Cops

Posted on June 25, 2023

Firefighters work to rescue Lower East Side construction worker

Lower East Side construction worker falls, gets wedged between two buildings: FDNY

Posted on June 22, 2023

Deadly Chinatown blaze sparked by lithium ion-batteries at e-bike shop riddled with violations: FDNY

Posted on June 20, 2023

Cast of "The Village! A Disco Daydream"

Enjoy a ‘Disco Daydream’ on the Lower East Side with fun and uproarious musical ‘The Village!’

Posted on June 7, 2023

Lower East Side riot over Denim Tears giveaway

Holy shirt! Riot breaks out in Lower East Side over Denim Tears sweatshirt giveaway

Posted on June 3, 2023

Stuyvesant Cove Park reopens after three years of coastal resiliency construction

Posted on May 31, 2023

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Grillo’s Pickles to host two-week-long pop-up on Lower East Side with events, exclusive merch in June

Posted on May 24, 2023

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Julia Gorton captures the vintage Downtown New York music scene with vivid imagery in new collection

Posted on May 17, 2023

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Cops release security camera footage of Lower East Side attacker

Posted on May 8, 2023

Blondie tribute band Pretty Babies perform at animal rescue benefit

‘One Way or Another,’ this Blondie tribute show on the Lower East Side helped animal rescue group

Posted on April 26, 2023

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‘Free Film’ project unleashes the power of photography on the Lower East Side

Posted on April 19, 2023

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Trader Joe’s on Lower East Side to unionize, first of its NYC stores to do so

Posted on March 24, 2023

Poet Bob Holman of the Lower East Side

The spoken word of Bob Holman, the globe-trotting unofficial poet laureate of the Lower East Side

Posted on March 15, 2023

Barry Reynolds and Friends on the Lower East Side

‘Barry Reynolds and Friends’ help raise great music and art from a Lower East Side gallery basement

Posted on February 22, 2023

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Runners strip down for charity during Cupid’s Undie Run

Posted on February 12, 2023

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FIRST ON amNY | Lower East Side deli shuttered for tobacco violations, selling cigarettes to minors

Posted on January 31, 2023

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State of the City | Legendary Brooklyn Banks skatepark set to reopen under Adams, Tony Hawk plan

Posted on January 29, 2023

Lower East Side musician Puma Perl

Arts & Entertainment

Doing it her way: Lower East Side’s Puma Perl asserts herself with her music and poetry

Posted on January 4, 2023

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‘Acker Awards’ return to celebrate The Village and the avant-garde art scene

Posted on December 14, 2022

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Shooting spree suspect tied to Lower East Side and Brooklyn murders turns himself in to police, sources say

Posted on December 5, 2022

NYC Parks opens a new waterfront space on the LES.

NYC Parks unveils new multi-million dollar Lower East Side waterfront space

Posted on November 30, 2022

Lower East Side graffiti artist Al Diaz

Lower East Side gallery exhibit chronicles ‘A History of Graffiti in New York’

Posted on November 22, 2022

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Man gets 8 years for Lower East Side laundromat stabbing

Posted on November 17, 2022

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‘The Art of Becoming’ Penny Arcade, a Lower East Side artist doing things her own way for decades

Posted on November 16, 2022

Jill Fiore sings from her Lower East Side fire escape

Jill Fiore rocks the Lower East Side from her fire escape

Posted on November 2, 2022

Chinatown and Lower East Side residents sue to stop mega development

Lower East Side, Chinatown residents sue to stop tower developments based on ‘Green Amendment’

Posted on October 22, 2022

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Spooky Halloween pop-up coming to Lower East Side’s Loreley Beer Garden

Posted on October 13, 2022

Ghost guns recovered from a Lower East Side apartment

Lower East Side man cuffed for building ghost guns in his apartment

Posted on October 11, 2022

Lower East Side book crawl

Second annual Lower East Side book crawl to return over Halloween weekend

Posted on October 11, 2022

Kissing creep sexually assaulted woman in Lower East Side apartment building

Kissing creep sexually assaults woman in Lower East Side apartment building

Posted on October 1, 2022

Suspect sought in Lower East Side slashing

Lower East Side slashing leaves would-be peacemaker injured, cops say

Posted on September 26, 2022

Bike-riding brute assaulted Lower East Side cop

Bike-riding brute on Lower East Side sought for assaulting cop

Posted on September 24, 2022

Jacob Riis Houses residents sue city over arsenic water scare

‘They have a right to damages’: Jacob Riis Houses residents sue NYC over arsenic water scare

Posted on September 12, 2022

Jacob Riis Houses water safe to drink as arsenic scare ends

City pronounces Jacob Riis Houses water safe to drink as mayor, health commissioner drink to end of arsenic scare

Posted on September 10, 2022

Jumaane Williams speaks out about arsenic contamination on Lower East Side

Arsenic contamination on Lower East Side: Latest water test results at Riis Houses negative for toxin

Posted on September 7, 2022

Lower East Side stabbing

Man hospitalized after Lower East Side stabbing

Posted on September 6, 2022

Arsenic contamination on Lower East Side

Arsenic contamination on Lower East Side: NYC expects water test results soon for Jacob Riis Houses

Posted on September 5, 2022

Lower East Side rape attempt suspect

‘Rude’ Lower East Side creep followed woman into apartment, robbed and tried to rape her: NYPD

Posted on September 5, 2022

Arsenic found in water at NYCHA complex

Federal monitor investigating how arsenic got into NYCHA’s water

Posted on September 4, 2022

DA Bragg funds ten gun violence prevention organizations

Posted on August 9, 2022

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