Lower East Side

“At a meeting on Tuesday night, LeRoy McCarthy was told that he will have to get more signatures on his petition before a Manhattan community board will vote on his request to name a street after the New York hip-hop trio…

A recent post on Gothamist points out that although LES venue Bowery Ballroom, which has only been around since 1997 was built in 1928 using remnants of an old theater, and back in the ’30s the place was home to Tree Mark Shoe Store, as recently surfaced pictures illustrate…

When it opened in 1989, Max Fish was an outpost in a down-and-out neighborhood, but it became a relic in what one former customer called today’s “fratified” Lower East Side…

Time Out commenter Jukebox Jodi writes:Been bartending at Motor City since the doors opened almost 17 years ago! We play all kinds of Rock’n’Roll, R&B, Soul, Garage, from the 50’s and 60’s to Punk to Rock to now…

We had heard that Cake Shop owner Andy Bodes was semi-privately looking for a bit of help, but now it seems things have come urgent. Someone just forwarded us this snippet of an email…

“Rehab is shutting it’s gates until it gets a new investor sorted. When & how it will reopen is anyones guess…there are many different scenarios, so for now thanks for the memories and if anything different arises we’ll let you know…

It was exactly a year ago today that Gothamist wrote….Andrew W.K. has also been working on his venue at 100 Lafayette, which he’s opening with Spencer Sweeney…

REM in that LES wine store, filming the video That video they were filming on the Lower East Side, and some behind the scenes…..

It’s not every day that you can call up your friends and say “So I was working at Babeland yesterday when Michael Stipe and the rest of R…