Author Salman Rushdie was at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute earlier this week for a wide-ranging conversation with NYU Journalism Professor Suketu Mehta for the Institute’s Primary Sources webisode series where he offered his perspective on the Park51 mosque controversy.

‘I’m definitely running again. What we built was a movement,’ Reshma Saujani told The Local East Village at her election night party last night.

Carolyn Maloney took 81 percent of the vote in New York’s 14th Congressional district to Reshma Saujani’s 19 percent.

Amanda VanAllen Amid questions about a new balloting process, voters across the East Village streamed to the polls for the primary on Tuesday, including here at P.S. 34.

Three days a week Bruce Lanterman sets up his chair under the subway awning in Union Square park and tells visitors about the $2,000 reward for information about his missing son.

Share your experiences at the polls. Tell us about the new voting machines, the poll workers, the turn-out and any other Primary Day moments.

The Local East Village offers readers a new tool for participating in coverage of our neighborhood: a Virtual Assignment Desk that provides readers with a way to suggest stories or volunteer to produce them.

Sophie Hoeller Good morning, East Village. Today is primary day in New York and, in case you missed it, one of our first posts contained a summary of some of the major races and a link to help identify your nearest polling place. In other neighborhood news, EV Grieve has an eye-opening post about the […]

The closing of the De La Vega Museum on St. Marks Place isn’t the last the city will see of James De La Vega. He said he is going to make a New York City comeback, just not in the East Village.

In an interview, Reshma Saujani, who is challenging Representative Carolyn Maloney in tomorrow’s Democratic primary, discussed East Village issues, the mosque controversy, Bill Clinton and whether Ms. Maloney has done enough for 9/11 first responders.

Looking for child-friendly options as summer turns to fall in the East Village? Community contributor Rachel Goldman surveys some of our neighborhood’s playgrounds.

As if getting New Yorkers to the polls on Primary Day wasn’t difficult enough, the city’s new voting machines may make it harder.

Which blogs should everyone in the East Village be reading?

Over on Ninth Street — the Museum Mile of boutiques — woolen knits, military coats and lace-up ankle booties are reigning supreme this season.

The Local is designed to reflect our East Village community, report on its issues and concerns, give voice to its people in a wide-reaching online public forum and create a space for our neighbors to tell stories about themselves.

Community contributor Al Kavadlo, a personal fitness trainer, offers his perspective on Yoga to the People.

Over the last three days, poetry and spoken word, music and theater, performance art and visual art combined in Tompkins Square Park for the annual HOWL! Festival.

HOWL! Arts board member Bob Perl estimated that around 20,000 to 30,000 attended the festival this weekend. Saturday drew the most people because of a mix of programming and pleasant weather. But the sun didn’t last. “Whether it’s the weather or inclement rain coming, today so far is quiet,” said Perl of Sunday’s performances.

Voters in New York who are registered in a party can cast ballots on Tuesday to nominate their party’s candidates for a variety of elected offices, including United States Senator and Congress.

There are 13 payphones on 13th and 14th Streets near Avenues A and B alone. Most are pretty grungy — and recently many were not functioning.