Results tagged “thelowereastside”

Twice a year the Department of Sanitation sets up an electronic recycling event in each borough; in Autumn ’06 they collected 191 tons of electronics and 1,245 pounds of cell phones.

Workers crammed into small spaces and contending with oppressive heat on the Lower East Side. Thank goodness for the labor movement of the early 20th Century. Or are the very people who commemorate those days enduring the same conditions? The Villager reports that workers at The Lower East Side Tenemant Museum are taking a page out of their own history books and forming a union. Their complaints include extreme temperatures and cramped workspaces. They want improved working conditions, better pay, and benefits. Irony is alive and well on Orchard St.

Every year that tragically hip (used to be Downtown) now-Midtown magazine, Paper, gives us a list of all the beautiful people. Some are famous, most you've never heard of, all of them are pretty on the inside (and/or outside!) and most importantly - they're all doing something cooler than you. Let's take a look at some of this years BPs:

We interviewed co-owner of Luna Lounge Rob Sacher in 2004, and he told a little story about Elliott Smith (who wrote his album XO at the bar at Luna). The story starts out, "Before I knew who Elliott Smith was, I knew him as this very quiet guy that had discovered the bar (at Luna) and would stay there till closing or near closing most nights, writing constantly in a journal with some kind of dark whiskey drink on the rocks or straight-up in front of him; he always had some kind of bourbon or something like that in front of him. Week after week after week."

The Lower East Side soared into a new era of decadence this past fall with the opening of the trendy new restaurant Thor. You may remember from your 8th grade literature class that Thor is the Norse god of thunder. If any god reigns here, however, it's the god of bad design. Take first the name—it has no connection to mythology but instead is just an acronym for The Hotel on Rivington. It’s the first of many clever but empty gestures that characterize the place. The hotel, a 21-story generic glass and metal tower, makes no attempt to connect with the historic tenements surrounding it. Enter the restaurant and the dissonance continues.

H & H Bagels and Junior's Cheesecake are usually the "no-brainer" stops for Gothamist's holiday gifts for transplanted New York foodies. This year, however, we thought that our gourmet buds in far-off lands like Maryland, Florida, Arizona and beyond would appreciate epicurean delights that focus on a well-loved culinary corner of our fair city: the Lower East Side.

Meow Mix was immortalized in Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy as being just a club to two clueless Jersey boys. Read the script, via Drew's Script-o-Rama.

Read a Harper's article about McCollum. * And a metrophile "is a person who has as a hobby the study of metro (subway, underground) systems," according to UsefulReference.com. Hmm, McCollum is certainly a Type-A metrophile. Gothamist is happy to read nycsubway.org and leave the conducting of trains to the professionals.

Harmatz's sons built Lansky Lounge behind Ratner's. Ratner's, which closed in 2002, funnily enough, created a Second Avenue Subway sandwich in 1999, to garner support for the project: "The sandwich, which consists of sardines, onions, red peppers, black olives, tomatoes, and lettuce on a bagel, represents how crammed straphangers feel on the Lexington Avenue line."

Gothamist is pretty sure we know what caused the rash: Winds from the Lower East side, where a tale of two cities' Joey is still pondering the cause of his rash. Either that or a devious way to get out of taking the math test on decimals.

The New York Times takes apart the city's doggie census and analyzes it using animal ownership information to gain insights into New Yorkers. Reporter Susan Saulny notes the variations of dogs in different areas with much humor: "For instance, who would be most likely to own Lucy, a cute little Shih Tzu? (Hint: Lucy often wears her long hair in a high ponytail above her eyes, fastened with a little pink bow.) Thinking, thinking. Someone from ZIP code 10021, you say, on the Upper East Side? That would be correct."