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Lower East SideLatest Stories

east river park in the summer
Protection At A Price

New York begins demolition of East River Park for new concrete storm barriers

Interior of sandy liang flagship showcasing sweaters on a rack
Home Ground Advantage

Sandy Liang’s new Lower East Side flagship reflects eclectic and locally-inspired fashions

conceptual illustration of underground park in Manhattan, with solar tubes to bounce light around
When They Go High, We Go Low

Manhattan’s subterranean Lowline park flatlines

Photo of Essex Market, a food hall
Essexive Options

SHoP’s Essex Street Market brings food hall glory to the LES

Detail of a fluted granite facade at 277 Mott Street
Mott Street Crease

Toshiko Mori Architect greets the Lower East Side with CNC-milled granite

Photo of March to Reclaim the City by Sydney Franklin
No Towers, No Compromise

Architecture collective joins activists to protest luxury towers on New York’s Lower East Side

east river park
Lower Manhattan Landfill

New York City releases surprise plan to bury and rebuild East River Park

The interior of The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
Holy Rollers

Milton Resnick’s former studio reopens with retrospective of his work

(Courtesy Ascend/Optimum Group)
Rock the Vote

An air rights vote divides a Lower East Side community

(Courtesy Signs and Symbols)
Symbolic Order

Signs and Symbols gallery opens in LES with an architectural mission

Making Moves

Galerie Perrotin opens downtown after a five-story renovation by Peterson Rich Office

Rivington House, as of November 2017 (Google Earth)
Plans Filed

CetraRuddy to design Rivington House luxury condo conversion

This parking garage at Broome and Clinton streets will be replaced by an affordable housing tower.(Google Earth)
Get A Handel On It

Two 15-story affordable towers planned for Lower East Side

(Courtesy Real Estate Arts)
Sun Down

Here’s the office building that’s replacing Sunshine Cinema

Aerial view of Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Synagogue after the fire. (Courtesy HLZA/Image via LPC)
A Hagadol Deal

Senior housing to rise around fire-ravaged Lower East Side synagogue

Coming 2020

The Anthology Film Archives moves forward with library and cafe expansion

In Two Bridges

Politicians to sue if New York City approves three new riverside towers

Mixed Media

Carriage Trade gallery exhibit delves into America’s disturbing psyche

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