Every day, dozens of people line up in front of Key Food Supermarket at Fourth Street near Avenue A, waiting to redeem hundreds of tin cans for cash in the redemption machines outside.

Tom Birchard, owner of the iconic East Village Ukrainian restaurant Veselka, is opening a second Veselka restaurant on the Bowery.

Local coffee houses are starting to re-think offering free WiFi because unlimited internet access in exchange for a $3 cup of coffee draws enough Web-hungry customers to threaten their shops’ vibes and, sometimes, their bottom lines.

Dave Winer, a visiting scholar at NYU Journalism and a pioneer in all things digital, has developed an aggregator of East Village blogs.

Artist Harumi Ori Thursday unveiled her latest work, a 4-foot by 24-foot installation erected on a sliver of scaffolding titled “I Am Here.”

Jane Kwett, a writer for Yelp who prefers Kerouac to Ginsberg, is the new tenant in Allen Ginsberg’s old apartment in the East Village.

NYU Journalism’s Suemedha Sood’s photo slideshow of singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle.

NYU Journalism’s Sarah Tung visits a shoe repair shop on St. Marks Place.

New Yorkers in search of a sweet pre- and post-fast treat have been making the annual pilgrimage to Moishe’s for tagelach (which is also often spelled tegulach) since just before the holiday period started with Rosh Hashanah on Wednesday of last week.

Rachel Wise Good morning, East Village. Much of the city is still cleaning up from Thursday night’s powerful storm, which downed trees in Brooklyn and Queens; our neighborhood was relatively unscathed. As always, though, we’d like hear your stories or see your images. This morning we noticed a post in The Bowery Boogie about a […]

Whether you’re broke, a student, or just plain stingy, here’s a guide on how to mooch your way through the week in the East Village, a neighborhood known for its cheap (but good) eats.

Nobody becomes an accordion player because it’s where the money is, says Helen Stratford, street musician. ‘If you want to make money,’ she says, ‘you write poetry.’

We hope that you will join us Sept. 23 for a night in which we at The Local, as the new blog on the block, celebrate the rich history of the East Village with a reception and lecture by NYU Journalism’s own Pete Hamill.

Run by a Hare Krishna monk, the new Bhakti Café on First Avenue near Houston has been struggling to attract patrons.

We’d like to hear your stories about bedbugs – where you’ve found them in the East Village (with enough reporting from the community, we can map them for future reference) and whether you think landlords should be required to disclose prior infestations.

Two new curators hope that the large piece of “extreme tagging” on the cement wall at Bowery and Houston will quell concerns about over-sized street art from some members of the community.

Homicide detectives Wednesday issued a second call for the public’s help in finding two men who are wanted for questioning in connection with a fatal shooting last month outside an East Village nightclub.

East Village storekeepers say shoplifters are a persistent menace, but also a fact of retail life.

In this final look back at Primary Day 2010, The Local East Village spends some time with poll workers at P.S. 34 who describe how they get through a long, uneventful day.