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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

February 20, 2020

Photo of Essex Market, a food hall

Essexive Options

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

September 11, 2019

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

July 24, 2019

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

January 22, 2019

Photo of East River Park as seen from Brooklyn

Lower Manhattan Landfill

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

January 22, 2019

The interior of The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation

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

September 11, 2018

(Courtesy Ascend/Optimum Group)

An air rights vote divides a Lower East Side community

June 12, 2018

(Courtesy Signs and Symbols)

Signs and Symbols gallery opens in LES with an architectural mission

May 11, 2018

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

March 8, 2018

Rivington House, as of November 2017 (Google Earth)

CetraRuddy to design Rivington House luxury condo conversion

February 13, 2018

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

January 31, 2018

(Courtesy Real Estate Arts)

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

January 23, 2018