Lower East Side News

Monday, November 30, 2009 City's Schools Share Their Space, and Bitterness by Jennifer Medina - NYTimes.com Read original... Public school parents protested the proposed expansion of a charter school in New York City.

Buildings shown in red illustrate potential development sites in and around NYCHA projects in vicinity of Williamsburg Bridge.

"Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive, ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive." It is a Tuesday morning at the Educational Alliance , a 120-year-old social service agency at 197 East Broadway, on the Lower East Side, and seven women of various ages are line dancing to the haunting anthem of "Saturday Night Fever." Leading the weekly classes since ...

Kiki Smith is an artist best known for sculpture and largely black-and-white or pale-colored prints inspired by feminist themes or Catholicism.

Eric Haze operates at the intersection of art and design, exploring how the application of lines and shapes communicates and influences culture.

Californian transplants to New York like to say that New York lacks good Mexican food.

When you're traveling about New York City this Holiday season, you have to have a place to lay your head.

Sal Bartolomeo. [Photograph: nypost.com ] From a nice profile in the New York Post of Sal Bartolomeo of Rosario's Pizza on the Lower East Side: "This pizza parlor is my home, and I share it with everybody," he says.

Combine your sightseeing experience by tasting authentic local foods in the city's most unique neighborhoods.

"Take two of the best classic deli sandwiches and combine them." [ Original artwork and photographs: Hawk Krall ] Kosher hot dogs have always been a staple of New York delicatessens.

During the holidays enjoy a day, afternoon or night out at a local Albuquerque Theatre.

One of the best lines in "Free for All," the big, bouncy new oral history of Joseph Papp and the Public Theater , isn't about Papp at all.

Thanksgiving is around the corner, and families will be gathering to share a meal and, perhaps, enjoy another annual telecast of "The Wizard of Oz." The 70-year-old film classic bears close watching this year, perhaps more than others, for the message woven into the lyrics, written during the Great Depression by Oscar-winning lyricist E.Y. "Yip" ...

This area was like the forgotten end of the world, but it was also a neighbourhood.

From left: Superdry at Broadway and Washington Place, Bruno Ravioli at Broadway between 78th and 79th streets On the Lower East Side, a secret speakeasy bar has opened in an undisclosed location a "little farther east than weekend revelers usually go." In Soho, Shecky's Media company has moved from its offices at 678 Broadway to a larger space at ...

Forced to wander the Houston Galleria for six to seven hours each day one summer, I was desperate to find some sort of sanctuary .

Thanksgiving is around the corner, and families will be gathering to share a meal and, perhaps, enjoy another annual telecast of "The Wizard of Oz." The 70-year-old film classic bears close watching this year, perhaps more than in any other, for the message woven into the lyrics, written during the Great Depression by Oscar-winning lyricist E.Y.

It's a tall order to say that any one designer is adding to fashion's narrative with his passion for the city itself.

"Butoh?" a friend said when I reported that I was off to the Cave New York Butoh Festival.

The crown of the Statue of Liberty reopened in July after being closed since shortly after the Sept.