Lower East Side

Sweet Chick opens in the Lower East Side.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced the winning design for a project to protect part of the Lower East Side from future floods.

As soon as the water subsided from the sidewalk more customers came in. “Water isn’t going to stop us, we’re Katz’s Delicatessen,” Jake Dell, the fifth generation owner of Katz’s Delicatessen, told Epoch Times.

Ivan Orkin has the Slurp Shop at the Gotham West Market, and Friday he opens a namesake ramen restaurant on the Lower East Side.

What’s the price of indulging in nostalgia? Possibly just a couple of bucks at Handsome Dan’s, a candy shop that just opened on the Lower East Side.

For meat-lovers, Buenos Aires is an authentic Argentine spot on the Lower East Side.

El Sombrero on the Lower East Side may be closing after 30 years to be replaced by Artichoke Pizza.

Contra opens in New York City. It’s a collaboration between Chef Fabian von Hauske (previously with Faviken and Noma) and Chef Jeremiah Stone (Isa), and Linda Milagros Violago (previously a wine steward at Mugaritz).

Contra opens in New York City. It’s a collaboration between Chef Fabian von Hauske (previously with Faviken and Noma) and Chef Jeremiah Stone (Isa), and Linda Milagros Violago (previously a wine steward at Mugaritz).

Preserve24, a new NYC restaurant with an eco-friendly mission is expecting an actual 4,000 lb monolith of basal-ice from a Greenland glacier to become its center piece.

Once defined by a ruddy abandoned warehouse behind a chain-link fence, Pier 42 is about to blossom. New Yorkers can get a peek at what’s to come as the Pier 42 waterfront park opens for interim use on May 3.

James Ramsey, founder of the Lowline, talks about his childhood and inspirations.

As the Jewish immigrant population exploded near the end of the 19th century, many settled on Manhattan’s Lower East Side (LES), bringing with them one of their favorite foods—the pickle.

Greyhound’s plan for a bus stop next to a park on the Lower East Side will go back to the drawing board, after Community Board 3’s transportation committee voted against it, according to reports.

Two teenagers were taken into custody suspected of shooting a BB gun resembling a rifle at a public school on the Lower East Side, on Wednesday.

The idea of utilizing 1.5 acres of vacant space next to the Essex Street subway station for an underground park is moving forward with a month long preview called Let there be light, exhibited at Mark Miller’s gallery in the Lower East Side.