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The Past Still Very Present in SoHo as Planning Process Seeks a Future

Photo: Eddie Panta

Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer opened the second public meeting for the SoHo NoHo Plan with this brutally honest admission, setting a new tone for the participatory workshops: “I do think that the first public event sucked and we learned many lessons.”

Motivated largely by fear of displacement, residents from the affected areas returned for a second round of battle. Some hung around the sidelines, still trepidatious about participating, while others sat in randomly assigned seats at large tables equipped with two color-coded street maps; one for the present, one for the future of SoHo and NoHo. For many life-long residents, community leaders, activists, and those who simply took pride in their neighborhood, a forum to the relay their expertise, was, well, irresistible. But even those anxious to participate remained skeptical of the process.

Sponsors of the Department of City Planning’s process, including Councilwoman Margaret Chin, continued to instill hope that zoning status quo remains a potential outcome. Yet the threat of change was indeed the elephant in the room.

For a public workshop billed as “Defining Mixed-Use,” the location (1 Centre Street) had inadvertently provided participants with a perfect example of an area that is the opposite. Much like SoHo in the early 1970s, City Hall is empty at night, distinctly lacking diversity of employment. This part of the city is solely dedicated to office work and politics. The convener, Jonathan Martin, explained to Bowery Boogie that every place they tried to reserve in SoHo or NoHo, including NYU, had already been booked.

DCP and retailer Michele Varian, Photo: Eddie Panta

DCP rep, Sylvia Li, kicked off the presentation segment of the meeting with info on the businesses that make SoHo and NoHo the economic hub it is today. But she met immediate, loud criticism after her open admission that the stats on the number of artists in the area didn’t include freelance artists or independent workers.

“What are we even doing here then?” One attendee who has rented a loft on West Broadway and Canal since 1979 yelled out from the sidelines. “You don’t even have the facts. Do you know what you’re doing?”

“This is just a primer for discussion,” Sylvia Li countered, citing that the only stats they had were from the New York State Department of Labor Statistics.

As Li attempted to plow through the remainder of DCP’s presentation, the riled-up crowd couldn’t get past the glaring omission. Folks hurled comments that contested the data and the validity of the entire planning process.

Unable to conclude her presentation, Jonathan Martin rescued the workshop from devolving into chaos again. He gave an impassioned plea, reassuring the crowd that not only was the future of SoHo and NoHo not predetermined, but that the process itself would evolve with the new data garnered at the meeting. And that, moving forward, this would be an “Ad-Hoc” planning process that is adjustable to the community’s feedback.

Village Voice clipping, circa 1980

Still, for many, the city’s lack of an accurate accounting of live/work artists, most of whom are freelancers, begged the obvious question: If it’s the public that are the experts with the data DCP needed, why weren’t DCP planners seated at the activity tables and the public participants taking turns at the podium instructing and educating them?

Skipping the remainder of the slide show, Martin moved on to the communal table activities, hoping participants would engage with anointing the maps with icon stickers that denoted types of labor.

But the anger didn’t subside until Martin conducted an impromptu census. “How many people here considered themselves artists?” Martin asked the raucous crowd. A show-of-hands revealed that over 80-percent of the participants were artists or makers.

Michael Levine, Photo: Eddie Panta

One person in the room understood the difficulties in collecting real, street-level data relating to artists in a dense area. Michael Levine, the DCP planner who wrote the original text of the SoHo rezoning nearly 50 years ago, was actually a spectator. When SoHo was last rezoned, it was Levine who tallied the artist population illegally living in lofts designated as light-manufacturing.

Michael Levine and his small crew of interns employed sly methods to gain an accurate count of the artist contingent between 1969 and 1971. “We looked for names, not businesses on mailboxes, counted lights on in windows on at night, and even looked for potted plants on fire escapes.” Levine explained. In pounding pavement themselves, the team got to know every nook and cranny of the neighborhood. “It took us two years to count all the illegal residents in lofts back then.”

At that time, the FDNY referred to SoHo as Hell’s One-Hundred Acres. The fire department wanted the tenants legalized so that emergencies could be reported before it was too late. Without the diversity of usage mixed-use zoning provides, SoHo was as vacant as City Hall at night. “It was the whole Jane Jacobs thing,” (eyes and ears on the street) Levine added.

But Levine’s contribution at the time was twofold – in order to net landmark status for the “Cast Iron District” of SoHo, Levine needed to show the city that lofts provided a unique housing opportunity. The preservation of SoHo might never have occurred unless a viable alternative to manufacturing – another use that could sustain safety and economic viability – was found. “It was always about housing.” Levine proudly declared. Eventually, Levine ended up meeting with a large group of artists who hand organized for the rezoning in order to obtain Artist In Residence status at Judson’s Memorial Church.

(The applause for Levine during the Q&A segment proved that his presence lent the room some much needed authenticity.)

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Source: https://www.boweryboogie.com/2019/03/the-past-still-very-present-in-soho-as-planning-process-seeks-a-future/

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OP-ED: The Case for Reparations Heats Up

Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.

By WI Editorial Staff

Henry Louis Gates did the movement for reparations for African Americans a huge favor by producing his latest documentary now airing on PBS, “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War.” The two-part series confirms that the atrocities against Black people didn’t end with the abolition of slavery. Rather, the vestiges of the decades-long system of legalized racism, bigotry, violence and white supremacy are still apparent in the lives of Black people who, across generations, still suffer economically, socially, politically and educationally.

Gates’s film provides proof for the call for reparations that followed the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation 156 years ago. It offers convincing evidence as to why reparations should be considered a serious matter and a means by which the U.S. government and others can be held accountable to the descendants of Black people victimized by slavery and its aftermath in the U.S.

Former Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) saw it that way when he introduced bill H.R. 40 Commission on Reparations in 1989. When Conyers retired two years ago, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) picked up the mantle and reintroduced the bill. Last week, a companion bill was introduced in the Senate by New Jersey Senator and presidential candidate Corey Booker. Alongside them, the bill’s supporters also include Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and 36 other co-sponsors, mostly members of the Congressional Black Caucus. And several Democratic presidential candidates are expressing their support for reparations including Julian Castro, Beto O’Rourke, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, to some degree.

HR 40 establishes the Commission to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans to examine slavery and discrimination in the colonies and the United States from 1619 to the present and recommends appropriate remedies.

In Booker’s announcement, he said he was “proud” to introduce legislation that “will finally address many of our country’s policies — rooted in a history of slavery and white supremacy — that continue to erode Black communities, perpetuate racism and implicit bias and widen the racial wealth gap.”

Despite the ongoing debate about reparations, Gates’s film holds nothing back and reveals the facts the American people were never taught as well as many of the findings the commission will seek. We are encouraged that conversation continues but anxious to see the legislation move forward. We also appreciate Mr. Gates, Jr. for telling the stories that some would have us forget.

This article originally appeared in the Washington Informer.

Source: https://www.blackpressusa.com/op-ed-the-case-for-reparations-heats-up/

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Could the Empty Newsstand at 2nd Avenue F Station Become Vending Machine?

The newsstand nestled on the mezzanine level of the 2nd Avenue F station is dark. Shutters are drawn, as the last operator apparently went out of business months ago.

Now, the MTA seeks another newsstand vendor to helm the spot, situated on the Allen Street entrance of the subway stop. A torn poster advertises “retail space available.”

However, if this retail spot reactivates, perhaps it’ll instead be automated. It just seems like a prime contender for the city’s recently announced initiative to replace physical newsstands with vending machines.

Much like at the airport, these will probably sell lifestyle goods such as travel-sized toiletries and on-the-go snacks. This shift away from real human interaction is reportedly the result of changing consumer habits – including falling demand for newspapers, magazines, and candy. Of course, the city can then sell advertising on the sides.

So, if this happens in the 2nd Avenue subway station, our guess is that these machines will be broken more often than not.

Source: https://www.boweryboogie.com/2019/03/could-the-empty-newsstand-at-2nd-avenue-f-station-become-vending-machine/

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Bird Tries to Wedge E-Scooters Into L-Train Shutdown Plans

Mayor de Blasio thinks Bird and other e-scooters are dangerous and he personally would never ride one.

Then again, the chauffeured mayor has nothing to worry about when the L train shuts down in April — and scooters suddenly become indispensable for stranded commuters.

That’s the message of a report put out Monday by Bird scooters, which is using the looming L-pocalyse to claim that e-scooters will be especially helpful in Brooklyn neighborhoods at Ground Zero of the shutdown [PDF].

The company’s self-serving analysis — it does not mention other e-scooter companies — claims Bird scooters could play a critical role connecting displaced L riders to far-away subways, reducing the time spent getting to and from stations. That, Bird argues, will deter more people from opting for congestion-inducing for-hire vehicles.

Bird’s target users would live in one of three zones located between .5 and 1.5 miles from the J/M/Z trains. The idea is to attract L train riders seeking to access those subway lines, which will be the only trains in the neighborhood providing direct service to Manhattan. (The MTA is also running shuttles buses into Manhattan.)

The proposal anticipates few if any commuters will take the scooters over the bridge. For those that do, scooters would be dropped off and picked up at one of three geo-fenced “nests” in the East Village near 14th Street.

“As part of a broader New York City e-scooter pilot, a deployment of e-scooters has the potential to uniquely serve and benefit commuters most impacted by the L train shut down,” the report by HR&A Advisors says.

But that prediction is hard to support. Most important, it is unclear if there will be buy-in: The company claims 5,500 people will use those scooters each day to either access J/M/Z trains or cross the East River on the Williamsburg Bridge. There’s good reason to doubt that estimate, however. It’s based entirely on a survey that found 21 percent of displaced L riders would be “very likely” to “try” riding an e-scooter to the train or to work.

But the timing of the report is no coincidence: The L train is shutting down this April — and scooters currently play no role in the Department of Transportation/Metropolitan Transportation Authority mitigation plan.

At the same time, pushed by a concerted lobbying effort by companies like Bird and Lime, a cadre of city council members has proposed to legalize e-scooters. One of their bills anticipates Bird’s L train dream by requiring DOT to allow scooter companies to operate in neighborhoods affected by the L shutdown, as well as those currently outside of the Citi Bike service area.

“People are using e-scooters to get from A to B, but as often or more often, they’re using e-scooters to go to that subway stop or train stop or bus stop that’s a little bit out of the way. That’s going to be very relevant to the L train shutdown,” Bird Director of Safety Policy and Advocacy Paul Steely White said at the council members’ press conference unveiling the legislation.

Mayor de Blasio, however, has not been bullish on the latest trend in “micro-mobility,” citing unsubstantiated concerns about safety.

Bird’s proposed deployment zone. Image: Bird

But plans have been in the works for months to increase the number of the Citi Bikes available in areas affected by the shutdown. Citi Bike operator motivate plans to deploy 1,000 pedal-assisted e-bikes for the shutdown, increase the size of its fleet by 1,250 bikes, and provide “valet service” at busy stations to ensure bikes are available.

Ultimately, the report acknowledges that the success of Bird’s proposal depends on what someone is willing to pay to cut his or her walk to the subway. At $1 per ride, plus 15 cents per minute, a typical rider might hop a scooter to cut a 20 minute walk down to five minutes, but many riders in the L-free zone will still be within shorter walking distance to alternative transportation.

And then there’s the issue of L train riders who are already pledged to Citi Bike.

Cost-wise, Citi Bike is a better deal for its regular users: a single Bird ride costs $1 plus $.15-cents per every minute of use. A single Citi Bike ride costs $3, but year-round members pay $169 for unlimited rides. That comes out to just $.23-cents per ride if one rents two Citi Bike per day every day of the year.

“If the e-bikes are available like they say they will be, then I will definitely opt for Citi Bike first, just because I’m already paying for it,” said Max Sholl, a North Brooklyn resident who’s led weekly rides over the bridge ahead of the shutdown.

But Bird’s fleet is 100 percent electric — which could give it a leg-up in attracting riders wary of tiring themselves biking over the Williamsburg Bridge.

“I would definitely be interested in riding one of the Bird e-scooters, especially into Manhattan over the bridge,” Sholl said. “I don’t usually Citi Bike over the bridges because they’re so heavy, and it’s a haul.”

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Source: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2018/12/11/bird-tries-to-wedge-e-scooters-into-l-train-shutdown-plans/

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Lower East Side: Der Insider Guide

Vor ein paar Jahren noch bekannt für die besten Bagels der Stadt und interessante Einkaufsschnäppchen, sprudelt die Lower East Side in Manhattan aktuell nur so voller Indie-Designer Boutiquen, stylischen Bars, Cafés und unzähliger zeitgenössischer Kunstgalerien. Der ehemalige Slum hat sich über die Jahre stark verändert und besitzt nun eine ganz andere Wertigkeit als noch vor Hundert Jahren.

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Aber die Neuentwicklungen und Veränderungen in der Lower East Side in New York haben den wahren Charakter des ehemaligen Zentrums der Einwanderer nicht zerstört. Man kann noch immer die Überreste der alten jüdischen Nachbarschaften erkunden, welche über viele Jahre die Heimat für die Marx Brüder und George Gershwin war. Es gibt viel zu sehen auf der Lower East Side – die bekannten „Tenement Houses“, oder eine prachtvolle restaurierte Synagoge sind nur kleine Teile der Schätze, die die Lower East Side für sich bewahren konnte.

Top 5 Things to do auf der Lower East Side

1 – New Museum of Contemporary Art: Das Museum gilt weltweit als eines der angesehensten Museen für Kunstpositionen der Gegenwart. (235 Bowery Street, Subway:J Z bis Bowery)

2 – Tenement Museum: Nirgendwo sind die Lebensumstände der New Yorker Migranten des 19. Jahrhunderts greifbarer als im Tenement Museum. (103 Orchard Street, Subway:F bis Delancy Street)

3 – Bowery Ballroom: Der ehemalige Ballsaal bietet allen „Independent-Künstlern“ in New York eine Bühne. (6 Delancy Street, Subway:J Z bis Bowery)

4 – East River Park: Der Park bietet jegliche Sportaktivitäten sowie großartige Aussichten auf die Manhattan Bridge und Brooklyn Bridge) (E 6th St , Subway:J Z bis Essex Street)

5 –Katz Delicatessen: Das Restaurant diente als Drehort für die bekannte Orgasmus-Szene aus Harry & Sally (205 E Houston, Subway:F bis 2 Ave)

So kommt ihr zur Lower East Side

Die Lower East Side erreicht ihr am leichtesten mit der Subway. Ihr habt die Qual der Wahl: Ihr könnt entweder mit der Subway Linie F bis Delancy Street oder 2nd Ave fahren, oder mit den J Z bis Bowery.

Die Anfänge der Lower East Side

Südlich der Houston Street – die übrigens „Hausten“ ausgesprochen wird und nicht, wie viele denken, „Juston“ – sowie westlich des East Rivers gelegen, erzählt die Lower East Side eine sehr interessante, aber auch traurige Geschichte über ihre Vergangenheit.

Im 19. Jahrhundert wurden die sogenannten „Tenement Houses“ errichtet, um den steigenden Einwanderungszahlen von Deutschen, Juden und Italienern in New York City gerecht zu werden. In den sehr einfachen, schnell erbauten Mietshäusern fanden sie alle ein Dach über den Kopf – teilweise mit 100 Personen auf nur vier Etagen. Für mehr reichte es auch nicht. Heute spricht man von Slums, denn die Häuser waren nicht nur überfüllt, sondern auch in einem miserablen und sehr unhygienischen Zustand. Fast jedes zweite Kind starb an Cholera oder Typhus. Das Leben auf der Lower East Side war dramatisch.

Ist die Lower East Side gefährlich?

Nein! – Aber sie war es. Sehr sogar, denn die Kriminalität war über viele Jahre völlig außer Kontrolle; den Bezirk Five Points, der die Vorlage für den Film „Gangs of New York“ lieferte, wurde von hoch kriminellen Banden regiert. Wer es irgendwie möglich machen konnte, verzog in eine andere Gegend.

Dies änderte an den überfüllten Tenements jedoch wenig; die frei werdenden Wohnungen füllten sich sofort mit neuen Einwanderern. Doch auch viele, viele Jahre nach den Zeiten der Straßengangs war die Lower East Side bekannt für Drogenkonsum, Kriminalität und Prostitution. Seit Bürgermeister Guiliani hier hart durchgegriffen hat, sieht die Welt anders aus. Die Lower East Side ist mittlerweile eine sichere Gegend.

Einwanderer und ihre Spuren

Die jüdischen Einwanderer waren in der Mehrzahl auf der Lower Eastside, was dazu führte, dass zwischen 1870 und 1920 hunderte von Synagogen, religiöse Schulen, jüdischen Zeitschriften und Bäckereien gebaut wurden. Diese sind heute alle vergessen, jedoch sind einige Spuren der jüdischen Bewohner der Lower East Side noch nicht ganz verwischt.

Es verschlägt einen dann jedoch einen Steinwurf entfernt in das sich immer mehr ausbreitende Chinatown, das mittlerweile viele Teile der Lower East Side für sich beanspruchen muss, da es sonst aus allen Nähten platzen würde. So auch die Eldridge Street Synagoge, eine der ältesten erhaltenen aschkenasischen Synagogen in den USA. Von 1986 bis ins Jahr 2007 hat man den heiligen Ort restauriert, so dass ein Besuch dort heute wirklich sehr empfehlenswert ist. Das Untergeschoss wird heute für Gottesdienste genutzt, im Hauptsaal „museal“ ist ein Museum entstanden: das „Museum at Eldrige Street“ (mehr dazu später).

Von dort noch etwas weiter östlich Richtung Canal Street lohnt sich ein Abstecher zur Sender Jarmulowsky Bank (Ecke Canal & Orchard Street), denn von dort aus belieferte man bis ins Jahr 1914 die jüdischen Immigranten mit Essen. Heute nutzt man das Gebäude für kommerzielle Zwecke. Die Büros der Jewish Daily Forward, eine jüdische Zeitung mit hoher Auflage in den Zwanziger Jahren, verbergen sich im Forward Building (175E Broadway, Ecke Canal Street). Heute befinden sich hier Luxus Apartments.

Die Lower East Side heute

In den Achtzigern bewohnten hauptsächlich Asiaten, Mexikaner und Juden das Viertel – ein multikulturelles Zusammenspiel in der urbanen Lower East Side. Hipster Bars und kleine Clubs eröffneten rund um die Ludlow Street – eine tolle Ergänzung zum hippen East Village. Die Szene dieser Zeit existiert noch heute in Locations wie dem Bowery Ballroom, oder dem Cake Shop.

Die Mieten sind über die Jahre, wie überall in der Stadt, extrem gestiegen – viele der hippen Bars konnten dem nicht Stand halten und mussten schließen. Die jüdischen Einwohner wanderten in Gegenden wie Williamsburg ab. Chinatown breitet sich immer mehr über die imaginären Grenzen zur Lower East Side hinaus aus.

Heute ist die Lower East Side aber auch ein Kunst Mekka. Dutzende von Kunstgalerien eröffneten in der Gegend in den letzten Jahrzehnten. Ein Grund, warum 2007 das Museum of Contemporary Art Chelsea den Rücken kehrte und auf der Bowery ein 50 Millionen Dollar Gebäude bezog.

Galerie – Hopping

Warum nicht mal von Galerie zu Galerie hüpfen? Das Galerie Hopping ist auf der Lower East Side sehr beliebt. Auf Eurer Entdeckungstour sind das die sehenswürdigsten Spots, die ihr Euch anschauen solltet. Die sehr urbane, extravagante Kunstszene ist nicht nur etwas für Kunstliebhaber. Egal, für welche Galerie ihr Euch entscheidet, ihr werdet begeistert sein.

Canada (Adresse: 333 Broome Street)

Eleven Rivington (Adresse: 11 Rivington Street)

Lisa Co0ley (Adresse: 107 Norfolk Street)

Miguel Abreu Gallery (Adresse: 36 Orchard Street)

Rachel Uffner Gallery (Adresse: 70 Suffolk Street)

Sperone Westwater (Adresse: 257 Bowery)

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Das Tenement Museum und mehr

Ein sehr einzigartiges Museum ist das Tenement Museum. In dieser beeindruckenden Location, erfährt man mehr über die generationsübergreifenden Lebensumstände der New Yorker Immigranten im 19. Jahrhundert. Man fühlt sich ein wenig wie im Film “Gangs of New York”. Die Touren sind alle geführt und sehr informativ. (Adresse: 90 Orchard Street)

Das Museum at Eldrige Street erinnert an die jüdische Geschichte des Stadtviertels, die Bedeutung des Synagogengebäudes und an die Geschichte der Einwanderung in die Vereinigten Staaten. Das Museum befindet sich in der gleichnamigen Synagoge und verschafft einen guten Überblick über die Hintergründe des Lebens der jüdischen Einwanderer (Adresse: 12 Eldridge Street).

Das New Museum of Contemporary Art ist allein schon aufgrund seiner Architektur einen Besuch wert. Das siebenstöckige Gebäude passt optisch rein gar nicht auf die Lower East Side. Seine Kunstausstellungen für zeitgenössische Kunst gehört zu den besten der Welt und einzigen in New York City. Lest hier einen ausführlicheren Artikel über das Museum (Adresse: 235 Bowery).

Restaurants und Bars

Die urbane Gastronomie auf der Lower East Side überzeugt. New Yorks bestes Sandwich isst man hier im bekanntesten Deli der USA. Hier findet ihr meine Top 5 der Restaurants, die ihr in dem spannenden Viertel nicht auslassen solltet.

Bars & Restaurants in der Lower East Side

Cocktails aus Teetassen

Am Abend blüht die Lower East Side erst richtig auf, denn das unkonventionelle Nachtleben hat es in sich und gilt als eines der bekanntesten der Stadt. Eine der beliebtesten Locations Live Music ist der Bowery Ballroom (Adresse: 6 Delancey St). Der ehemalige Ballsaal bietet jede Woche viele sehenswerte Konzerte. Hier spielte vor vielen Jahren Bruno Mars, als ihn noch nicht die ganze Welt kannte. Den Eventkalender findet ihr hier.

Etwas rockiger geht es im Cake Shop (Adresse: 152 Ludlow Street) zu. Auch hier spielen regelmäßig tolle Live Bands, die von den großen Bühnen der Welt träumen. An den Cake Shop angeschlossen befindet sich ein Plattenladen und ein Café mit köstlichem Kaffee. Lest hier alles zu den kommenden Events.

Die Mercury Lounge (Adresse: 217 E Houston Street) überzeugt mit Indie – Rock Events der Extraklasse und ist die Nummer Eins auf der Lower East Side. Hier sollte man die Tickets für die Konzerte auf jeden Fall im Voraus kaufen. Aufgrund der Beliebtheit kann man sonst schon mal vor vollem Haus stehen. Hier gehts zu den Veranstaltungen.

Neben den tollen Locations für Live Events hat die Lower East Side aber auch noch viele sehr angesagte Bars zu bieten.

Nicht einfach zu finden, da sich der Eingang in einem Hinterhof befindet, ist die Back Room Bar (Adresse: 102 Norfolk Street). Ein echter Insider Tipp! Achtet auf das Schild: „The Lower East Side Toy Company“ – geht durch das Tor hindurch und folgt dem schmalen Durchgang. Eine Tür ohne Schild ist dann er Eingang zur Bar. Dort trinkt man übrigens die Cocktails aus Teetassen und Bierflaschen werden in braunen Tüten serviert. Ein sehr eigensinniger Ort, jedoch die passende Location, um die Lower East Side zu repräsentieren.

Über die Loreley (Adresse: 7 Rivington Street) habe ich Euch schon im letzten Sommer in Bezug auf die Fußball Weltmeisterschaft berichtet. Der Kölner Michael Momm betreibt hier seit vielen Jahren erfolgreich diese Deutsche Bar mit angeschlossenem kleinen Biergarten – er zeigt regelmäßig Fußballspiele und andere Sportevents. Für mich ist immer ein Stückchen Heimat. Weitere lohnenswerte Bars sind die Attaboy Bar (Adresse: 134 Eldridge Street), sowie der Pub Spitzer´s Corner (Adresse: 101 Rivington Street). Zum feiern gehen haben wir auch noch ein paar Tipps für euch: das sind unsere liebsten Bars der Lower East Side zum Ausgehen!

Schnäppchenjäger aufgepasst!

Ein gestandener New Yorker weiß, wo er seine Schnäppchen kaufen kann und das ist ganz klar die Lower East Side. Die wichtigste Straße, die ihr Euch in diesem Zusammenhang merken solltet, ist die Orchard Street. Sie gilt auch gleichzeitig als die „Hauptstraße“ der Lower East Side.

Der ultimative Shopping-Guide für New York

Mädels aufgepasst! Es ist der wohl umfangreichste und aktuellste Shopping-Guide über New York, den es gibt! In den letzten 3 Monaten war die Shopping- und Lifestyle-Expertin Luise – auch bekannt als Kleinstadtcarrie – in New York unterwegs und hat über 400 (!) Shopping-Spots euch entdeckt. Auf über 30 Seiten findet ihr die besten Läden und Flohmärkte der Stadt, sortiert nach Stadtteilen & unsere TOP 3 in mehreren Kategorien!

Unter den vielen spannenden Geschäften sind hippe Einzelhändler, tolle Schuhgeschäfte und witzige Accessoires Läden. Hier sind meine Favoriten und Insider Tipps an Euch:

Im Alife Rivington Club (Adresse:158 Rivington Street) gibt es einer bunte Auswahl trendiger Freizeitkleidung von Nike bis New Balance sowie interessante eigene Labels des Clubs.

The Cast (Adresse: 71 Orchard Street) ist etwas für Motorrad Fans, denn die Rock´n´Roll inspirierte Kollektion des Inhabers Chuck basiert auf seiner Leidenschaft für den Motorsport. Klassische Lederjacken und coole Jeans sind nur ein kleiner Teil des Geschäfts.

Wer Hoodies liebt, wird The Hoodie Shop (Adresse: 181 Orchard Street) mögen, denn hier könnt ihr Euch zwischen rund 50 verschiedenen Hoodie Marken entscheiden. Die Auswahl ist riesig. Hier finden übrigens auch oft Late Night Shopping Events mit DJ und Cocktails statt.

Das Schuhparadies der Lower East Side ist Moo Shoes (Adresse: 78 Orchard Street), aber auch Reed Space (Adresse: 151 Orchard Street) hat eine ansehnliche Auswahl zu bieten.

Ausgefallene Kosmetik, entwickelt von Make-Up Artist David Klasfeld, wird auf der Lower East Side gerne bei Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics (174 Ludlow Street) gekauft. Die Produkte sind 100% frei von Tierversuchen und vegan. Von Lip-Balsam bis hin zu 40 verschiedenen Farben von Nagellack geht hier jeder Frau das Herz auf.

Und sonst?

In den Sommermonaten empfiehlt sich ein Spaziergang in den historischen Hamilton Fish Park, der seit 1936 für die Öffentlichkeit zugänglich ist.

Freibäder findet man in New York oftmals ganz öffentlich ohne zusätzliche Kosten in Parks. So auch im Hamilton Fish Park – der Pool lockt im Sommer Badefreudige aller Altersklassen, um an den heißen Tag in New York abzukühlen (Adresse: 128 Pitt Street).

Auch die Nähe zum East River reizt mit einer tollen Aussicht auf Williamsburg und die Williamsburg Bridge. Wenn ihr die East Houston Street hinunter lauft, kommt ihr direkt zum East River Park.

Source: https://lovingnewyork.de/insider/lower-east-side-der-insider-guide/

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New owners set to take over the 33-year-old Sidewalk Bar & Restaurant on Avenue A

[EVG photo from November]

A new ownership team is on this month's CB3-SLA agenda for the Sidewalk, the 33-year-old bar-restaurant-live-music venue on Avenue A at Sixth Street.

The applicants are hospitality veterans Laura Saniuk-Heinig and Alyssa Sartor. (Saniuk-Heinig is the general manager at the Bar Room on East 60th Street; Sartor co-owned August Laura in Carroll Gardens.)

The questionnaire on file at the CB3 website (PDF here) describes the food/menu concept as "American bistro."

Live music, a longstanding tradition here, will apparently continue.

"We are looking forward to keeping the music aspect of the room still alive. Exactly what kinds of shows, we do not know yet," Saniuk-Heinig told me via email.

And will they keep the Sidewalk name? "We are in talks with the current owner, but no decision has been made," she wrote.

Sidewalk opened in the corner spot in 1985 ... eventually expanding to the space next door when Sophie's relocated to its current home on Fifth Street.

The biannual Antifolk Festival has been held here since 1993. The music venue has helped launch the careers of singer-songwriters like Regina Spektor, Adam Green, Kimya Dawson and Jeffrey Lewis. The Sidewalk still hosts live music, open mic nights (one of the longest-running ones in the city) and reading series seven days a week.

Sidewalk underwent a full renovation in 2011. Amnon Kehati, one of the Sidewalk partners, died in February 2015 at age 64.

The committee meeting starts tonight at 6:30. Location: The Perseverance House Community Room, 535 E. Fifth St. between Avenue A and Avenue B.

[Photo from 1997 by Dave Buchwald]

Source: http://evgrieve.com/2018/12/new-owners-set-to-take-over-33-year-old.html

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A Week In New York City On A $68224 Salary - Refinery29

Monthly Expenses Rent: $200 (I live at home in Queens, where I was born and raised, and pay my mom a small amount every month.) Student Loan Payment: $0 (I had about $35,000 in loans after graduating. I paid for $15,000 and my mom paid for $20,000.) Netflix: $10.99 (I share with my mom, sister, and boyfriend.) Weights Class: $25 per week MetroCard: $200 (pre-tax) Savings: $1,200 (I automatically transfer $600 to my savings after every paycheck.) 401(k): $1,469.44 (I'm maxing out contribution. My company matches 50% of the first 6%.) Source: https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/engineer-salary-new-york-city-money-diary

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Arrested Development: New 14-Story Hotel on Eldridge Street Stalls

Reactivated, then deactivated.

One year later, there isn’t much to show for the incoming hotel at 79 Eldridge Street. It was February 2018 that construction commenced on the new 14-story lodge.

And here we are; the superstructure is barely out of the ground at a height of about two stories. It’ll eventually hit fourteen floors and carry 48 rooms; there is also 1,243 square-feet of floor area earmarked for a community facility of some sort.

Of course, it doesn’t help that the project site has fallen prey to several stop-work orders from Department of Buildings.

Estimated completion date, according to worksite signage, is “winter 2021.”

This is a long time coming for 79 Eldridge Street. The private parking lot was on the open market for three years before the corporate shell “Eldridge Hotel LLC” shelled out $5.3 million for the parcel in 2016.

Source: https://www.boweryboogie.com/2019/03/arrested-development-new-14-story-hotel-on-eldridge-street-stalls/

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Ashby's Top 5 Books You Must Read this Summer

Guys! We have an entertaining post today featuring my girl Ashby! I know I've so been lacking in the book recommendation category and I really miss these on the blog, so I tapped my local expert and begged her to start a book review series. Spoiler alert: she said yes!!

You guys are going to love it I promise you. Ashby and I have the same taste in books (as you'll see below!) and she just reads so much more that she really comes hard with the recommendations. So with all that being said, give it up for AssshhhhBBBBBYYYYYY!

^Krista wanted a photo of me reading. Unflattering but authentic.

Hi friends! Welcome to my first guest blog! I am here to tell you all about my favorite books that I have read in the past year because I would really just love to spark some conversation since Krista refuses to fit reading into her busy schedule...

Just to set the stage, I am a very avid reader – I carry books on the subway, I read my kindle walking down the street, I can read in a moving vehicle – NBD. Please note, however, that that doesn’t mean I am ripping through Hemingway on a regular basis. I once was asked what my favorite book was, and I panicked and blurted out Harry Potter. I was so embarrassed until I thought about it for a minute and then firmly stood behind that answer.

I am all about an easy, fun, well-written read. Give me the best sellers, the psychological thrillers, the juicy historical fictions, etc. While I could talk endlessly about every book I read, I decided to start you all off with my top 5 favorite books that I have read in the last year (some came out a few years ago, but I was late to the party).

I know some of them have been covered before, but that just reinforces how good they are. If you haven’t read these, I need you to stop what you are doing and get on board.

The Last Mrs. Parrish -- Psychological Thriller

Ok, so we all know that Gone Girl set the standard. The OG plot twists that we didn’t see coming and what every psychological thriller author is trying to replicate in some way. I read so many of this genre and constantly am guessing the endings or am let down by the plot. But The Last Mrs. Parrish took me for a ride.

This book was the perfect amount of suspenseful, exciting and disturbing (personally, the more disturbing a book is, the more I like it, which I am sure we can unpack but let’s save that for another time). Amber is new to town and envies the perfect Daphne Parrish. Daphne has it all – she is gorgeous, she is rich, she has a beautiful family. Amber comes along and schemes to take her down and slide into her life.

I will say that there is nothing worse than when someone says that there was SUCH a good plot twist because then obviously you spend the whole book anticipating what the twist will be. With this one, I say just be cool and buckle up because it was so so good!

The Address -- Historical Fiction

If you are a New Yorker, this is a must-read. It is about an apartment building called The Dakota (famous for where John Lennon was killed if you didn’t already know). It gives a snapshot of what NYC was like in the year 1884 when the Dakota was built. It goes back and forth in time between a member of the Dakota staff (and her illicit love affair) and a tenant in the 1970s.

It honestly made me start researching historic buildings in NYC, and now when I pass them, I go into full tour guide mode and start spouting fun facts. I also do that while showing apartments around the city (shameless plug) but while I can’t promise to get you a new home in the Dakota, I’ll find you the next best thing – email me [email protected] ;) I just love all things NYC so this was a fascinating book plus there are Downtown Abbey vibes, which I’m all about!

The Great Alone -- Fiction, Drama

Nothing has moved me quite like Kristin Hannah’s Nightingale. I can’t even talk about it on here but it just ripped me apart and obviously turned me into her biggest fan. The Great Alone is her most recent book. It focuses on the Allbright family living off the grid in 1974 Alaska and follows the hardships that a teenage girl must endure in that type of setting. I was cold just reading it.

This poor girl Leni and her mother are moved to Alaska by her father who returns home from the Vietnam war and has a hard time adjusting back to normal life. He thinks that the quiet and seclusion of the Alaskan frontier will be the perfect place for his family to relocate. All goes well until the winter darkness starts to set in and the few residents of the community can no longer help support the Allbright family and they are all alone.

You really fall in love with these characters and are rooting for (most of) them until the very end. Of course, there is a love story that is woven in as well. It is just a hauntingly beautiful book!

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo -- Fiction, Beach Read

Taylor Jenkins Reid has become one of my favorite authors. She really nails the light and easy beach read without crossing the line into trashy. This is the first one of hers that I read and it just touched my heart. As an avid fan of all things celebrity gossip, this book felt like reading a very classy, very interesting People magazine (not sure that comparison is flattering but I mean it in the best way possible).

Evelyn Hugo is an iconic socialite and former actress who was married famously 7 times, a la Elizabeth Taylor. No one knows the true story behind her scandalous life until she hires an unknown magazine reporter to finally tell her life story.

First of all, why did she choose that particular reporter (I must have tried guessing the answer a hundred times and was so surprised when it was finally revealed)? Second, the big question that everyone wants to know is which of Evelyn’s husbands was her true love. I won’t spoil the answer but let’s just say it isn’t who you think!

One Second After -- Science Fiction

MMMMMMKK you guys. This one is a real thought provoker. Krista actually did read this one (good job girl!) and we ended up discussing it for weeks after. This book follows what would happen in present-day if the USA suddenly lost electricity due to an Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) attack (which is a real thing).

It doesn’t initially sound like a huge deal (minus no TV or lights) but basic things like cars, keeping food cold and getting drinking water into houses immediately becomes problematic. Hospitals no longer can keep machines on or medicine on ice. Planes fall from the sky. Riots and violence break out everywhere. It is insane and the scariest part is that theoretically it all really could happen. This book follows what happens to a small isolated town in North Carolina and how they are able to deal with the aftermath of the EMP.

It really made me think about how I would survive and what my emergency plan would be if an act of war ever got that far. Feel free to reach out if you’d like to a full rundown. I may sound like an alarmist but you try reading this and not mentally coming up with a plan of action!

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So in conclusion, please do yourselves a favor and read those 5 books. They really run the gamut of genres (I am just soooo diverse) but each stands out in its own way. Going forward I am going to write a monthly review of all of the books that I read each month. I am a true copycat so if anyone has any suggestions, definitely let me know!

Need more books in your life? Be sure to check out all of Krista's past book reviews HERE!

Source: http://www.coveringbases.com/2019/06/ashbys-top-5-books-you-must-read-this.html

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