Dumplings: Chinatown maybe our savior when it comes to bargain food. Among the favorites are dumplings, which come four for a dollar, or five for a dollar. They are well-reviewed by a number of food bargain sites. Prosperity Dumpling, 46 Eldridge St., 212-343-0683, among others

Published by New York Times on October 8, 2008.

The Place: The Living Room, 154 Ludlow St.

Published by New York Daily News on October 4, 2008.

The Place: Kush Lounge, 191 Chrystie St.

Published by New York Daily News on October 4, 2008.

The place: 151, 151 Rivington St.

Published by New York Daily News on October 4, 2008.

The Place: Piano's, 158 Ludlow St.

Published by New York Daily News on October 4, 2008.

Gossip Girl is filming near Rivington and Ludlow in Manhattan. (Thanks Tiffani)

Published by On Location Vacations on October 2, 2008.

...from the rest of the city. I do my shopping at the Shop Smart at 117 Ludlow Street. The price there for an 18-ounce box of Kellogg’s Frosted Mini-Wheats? $4...

Published by New York Times on October 1, 2008.

...take the F train to the J.C. Penney event at Sara Roosevelt Park on Chrystie and Houston streets. Once a notorious needle park, the place has been reclaimed by the community and...

Published by Village Voice on October 1, 2008.

Reclining seductively on the corner of Bowery and Houston Street is the mysterious wheat-pasted figure of a two-story-tall naked woman. First appearing Sept. 17, the mural, covering bricks and riot grates, is part of a two-week art show that opens tonight in a temporary downtown art space.

Published by New York Times on September 25, 2008.

...which kicked off the school year by painting the entranceway to M.S. 131 at 100 Hester St. Young volunteers transformed the entry using the bright colors in a weave pattern inspired created...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 25, 2008.

Winners: The Bowery Hotel (250 Bowery Street), designed by Flank Inc. Architects; and West Harlem Environmental Action’s center (to be built at 459 West 140th Street), designed by AQC Architects PC. Each company won $2,000.

Published by New York Times on September 24, 2008.

Yes and yes to the Yonah Schimmel Knishery (137 East Houston Street) and Katz’s Delicatessen (205 East Houston Street). Schimmel’s started out on a pushcart...

Published by New York Times on September 24, 2008.

...and yes to the Yonah Schimmel Knishery (137 East Houston Street) and Katz’s Delicatessen (205 East Houston Street). Schimmel’s started out on a pushcart, which blossomed into a store in 1910. (You...

Published by New York Times on September 24, 2008.

JoeDoe (45 E. 1st St., between First and Second avenues, 212-780-0262).

Published by New York Sun on September 24, 2008.

It seems they definitely have a point on that end. Via Eater, we learn of an ongoing graffiti battle at 282 Bowery, the future site of downtown colonizer Keith McNally's newest venture. Apparently, the spot is also considered prime real estate by the spray paint touting set, though armistice will likely come once the place is up and running (maybe Mr. McNally will leave it up to up the gritty authenticity quotient?).

Published by The New York Observer on September 22, 2008.

If you want to get in on all this now, check out New York's piece about 190 Bowery, a former bank that now functions as a "six-story, 72-room, 35,000-square-foot (depending on how you measure) single-family home."

Published by The New York Observer on September 22, 2008.

A Marc by Marc Jacobs store may open in the East Village.

Published by The New York Observer on September 19, 2008.

We got inside John Mayer's head at his secret show at the Mercury Lounge.

Published by The New York Observer on September 19, 2008.

"I think we've broken the curse," said Dustin Cappelletto, co-owner of the forthcoming Travertine restaurant at 19 Kenmare Street, after a divided Community Board 2 narrowly voted 17 to 14 to support the eatery's liquor license during a contentious meeting on Thursday night.

Published by The New York Observer on September 19, 2008.

Hundreds of police and security officials will be shutting down streets across the East Side as more than 130 world leaders begin arriving in New York this weekend for the United Nations General Assembly.

Published by WNBC on September 19, 2008.

They are the suits around the corner Canal Street at S. A. Clothing, celebrating 80 years in the neighborhood this year, if you can call it a celebration: the owner, Ronald Salstein, 59, stands outside, smoking, less out of habit than avoiding the boredom of his empty shop.

Published by New York Times on September 18, 2008.

Chinatown, on the cusp of gentrification, is becoming a haven for unusual boutiques.

Published by New York Times on September 18, 2008.

A purveyor of door hardware in the Lower East Side, who gave only his first name, Henry, 43, said he had seen problems with subprime lending long ago. “I never understood,” he said. “I didn’t think I was sophisticated enough, but apparently I was. I thought it was just my old-world way of thinking.”

Published by New York Times on September 18, 2008.

But on the streets and avenues away from Wall Street, the signs, while less obvious than a black line on a white sheet, are no less clear. They are the piles of little Dora the Explorer socks piled up in the narrow K. S. Hosiery on Orchard Street in the Lower East Side, socks that are not selling like they used to.

Published by New York Times on September 18, 2008.

Ms. Sapozhnikova was a student at the Fashion Institute of Technology three years ago when, coming home from a party one night, she was handed a business card for a company of stilt walkers. Curious, she called the number and was soon taking lessons in her apartment. She started taking her own stilts to parties and was soon hired to perform at a Lower East Side club.

Published by New York Times on September 18, 2008.

Shang (190 Allen St. at Stanton Street, 212-460-5300) Toronto celebrity chef Susur Lee, a native of Hong Kong, will bring his own version of Chinese food to New York in his first stateside restaurant, at the Thompson Lower East Side hotel.

Published by New York Sun on September 17, 2008.

11:30 a.m. Klein speaks at the kickoff of the second phase of Publicolor's "Young at Art" program at M.S. 131, 100 Hester St.

Published by The New York Observer on September 17, 2008.

Late Tuesday evening, The Daily Transom headed to the Lower East Side, where John Mayer performed a "secret" midnight show at Mercury Lounge.

Published by The New York Observer on September 17, 2008.

They were pioneering people. A t-shirt and silkscreen shop in a building on Second Avenue near Houston Street settled by squatters,  where they sold their own designs. A cool and ironic t-shirt that sold well. Early settlers in Brooklyn.

Published by Only The Blog Knows Brooklyn on September 16, 2008.

Simon Hammerstein and Richard Kimmel, had anticipated trouble at the meeting, due in large part to ongoing noise complaints from the apartment building just to the south at 187 Chrystie.

Published by The New York Observer on September 16, 2008.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority should purchase the Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges from the city for $1 each - and impose tolls, a former city official urged.

Published by New York Daily News on September 16, 2008.

On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 16, Randy Weiner, managing partner of the Box, was on the phone with the Transom, hours after a late-night District 3 Community Board meeting gone “horribly wrong.” The six-member board—which covers the Lower East Side and Chinatown—voted unanimously to deny the burlesque theater’s application to renew its liquor license (an official recommendation to the State Liquor Authority will not be ratified until the full board meeting on Sept. 23).

Published by The New York Observer on September 16, 2008.

Monday night, Eater sat in on a community board meeting during which Lower East Side hotspot The Box was denied a renewal application for its liquor license.

Published by The New York Observer on September 16, 2008.

A federal agency hit three construction firms with penalties totaling $313,500 yesterday for alleged safety violations leading to the collapse of a crane that killed seven people on the East Side last March.

Published by New York Post on September 16, 2008.

On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 16, Randy Weiner, managing partner of the Box, was on the phone with the Transom, hours after a late-night District 3 Community Board meeting gone “horribly wrong.” The six-member board—which covers the Lower East Side and Chinatown—voted unanimously to deny the burlesque theater’s application to renew its liquor license (an official recommendation to the State Liquor Authority will not be ratified until the full board meeting on Sept. 23).

Published by The New York Observer on September 16, 2008.

It began in July 1950 when F.B.I. agents arrested Julius Rosenberg in the family’s Lower East Side apartment, thrusting the boys onto a global stage as bit players in their parents’ appeals, in the government’s efforts to extract their parents’ cooperation and in Soviet propaganda campaigns to cast the Rosenbergs as martyrs.

Published by New York Times on September 16, 2008.

...of-the-border debut in the new Thompson LES hotel will be just as good (190 Allen St....

Published by Zagat New York City on September 16, 2008.

Police are working to determine the cause of death of man whose body was found in Seward Park on the Lower East Side.

Published by New York Sun on September 15, 2008.

A cancer-stricken Hollywood wardrobe maven and her son were found dead in her Gramercy apartment in an apparent murder-suicide. The Sun reports that a 64-year-old man’s body was found in Seward Park on the Lower East Side early Sunday.

Published by New York Times on September 15, 2008.

A host at 26 Seats, a hip new eatery in the East Village, blamed their poor July inspection on renovation work.

Published by amNY.com on September 15, 2008.

A cancer-stricken Hollywood wardrobe maven and her son were found dead in her Gramercy apartment in an apparent murder-suicide. The Sun reports that a 64-year-old man’s body was found in Seward Park on the Lower East Side early Sunday.

Published by New York Times on September 15, 2008.

Yes, the Lower East Side — homeland of the pushcart peddlers or yore — was once a pickle nexus.

Published by New York Times on September 12, 2008.

Pickling was necessary before refrigeration, said Nancy Ralph, director of the New York Food Museum, which is also hosting the fair.

Published by New York Times on September 12, 2008.

Gossip Girl is filming at two locations, interiors and exteriors at both, first around Ludlow and Stanton (Thanks to Chris and Amy) and around E 80th and Park.

Published by On Location Vacations on September 12, 2008.

In 1982, he found stability of sorts in a one-bedroom apartment in the East Village, where he has lived ever since. Unsurprisingly, though, the protagonists of all his works, which include four plays and six novels apart from the Moses books, are invariably harassed New Yorkers, fending off an all-encompassing city that constantly threatens to devour them.

Published by New York Times on September 12, 2008.

The fair will take place from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., on Orchard Street between Broome and Grand Streets and at the parking lot Ludlow and Broome Streets. There will be many festivities, including face painting (of pickles, of course).

Published by New York Times on September 12, 2008.

Even Ms. Gonzalez, 51, who eventually moved much closer to the financial district, to an apartment in Chinatown that looks into the heart of Lower Manhattan, has made her peace. “The function of the view in my current apartment,” she said, “it’s not a place to go for inspiration. It’s just a normal view and needing skylight. Just a normal view.”

Published by New York Times on September 11, 2008.

On Withers Street in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where the towers once loomed above the Williamsburg Bridge on the western horizon, Theresa Cianciotta, an assistant to a state assemblyman, said she never left her house now without casting a rueful glance at the skyline.

Published by New York Times on September 11, 2008.

In Chinatown, Squadron lost only 6 out of 26 election districts. That’s a place that had voted for Connor over his 2006 challenger, Ken Diamondstone. That flip probably has something to do with the huge push by labor in that area, particular by U.N.I.T.E.H.E.R.E.

Published by The New York Observer on September 11, 2008.

Firefighters caught on tape carrying boxes of food into Sheldon Silver's campaign office on the Lower East Side claim they were just helping the Assembly speaker and did not "prepare" or "deliver" the packages, union officials said yesterday.

Published by New York Post on September 11, 2008.