Dozens of local shops and eateries will begin offering discounts for bikers, with the launch of a Bike-Friendly Business District.

“Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969-1989” opened to the public today at New Museum. The Local got an early look.

Christopher Pugliese says he’ll deliver “a full-service smack-down” to his new neighbor across the street.

How does a candy store stay in business for 35 years? We spoke to Petra Olivieri, wife of owner Raul Santiago, to find out.

Just about everyone in the neighborhood knows about the plan to build a nine-story building next to the Merchant’s House Museum – that is, everybody but the guy whose business is in jeopardy because of it.

A roundup of East Village news from around the web, including a chat with Molly Ringwald, a street festival on the Lower East Side and more.

Since 1994, Ms. Datz-Romero and the Lower East Side Ecology Center, which she co-founded 25 years ago, have run a collection service that takes local kitchen scraps, diverts them from landfills, and turns them into compost.

The East Villager who has owned Body Beautiful for 16 years and Salon Champu for two years is combining both spots and moving a few blocks south.

Blue Owl, a cocktail bar that got a good deal of hype back in 2006 only to be overshadowed by countless other drinks-den openings (most recently, Pouring Ribbons), is up for sale.

An East Villager photographs trash along the East River, and also helps clean it up. See some of the photos he has gathered in a book.

The bells – alarm bells, that is – sounded at a recently shuttered church on East 12th Street.

The Local’s roundup of East Village news around the Web, including a found parrot, a preview of New Museum’s Bowery exhibit, and more.

Vandals broke into Mary Help of Christians over the weekend, though the church’s precious relics had been moved out earlier in the week.

The space that held Bar on A for 15 years is becoming a 7-Eleven, according to a construction worker at 170 Avenue A today.

While the New Museum prepares to honor the artists of 1970s and ’80s Bowery with its exhibit, “Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969–1989” (the opening reception is tomorrow night), the Theater for the New City Gallery is presenting works by two artists, some of which draw on found images of pre-1940s East Village.

While arrests were made near Wall Street, Union Square was quiet but for a lone hoola hoop teacher.

By the age of 16, he had written two books and appeared on talk shows. But Jonathan Krohn is in for a reality check as he moves to the East Village.

A company that is said to own multiple East Village properties has purchased four adjacent lots at the corner of Avenue D and East Third Street, with plans to tear down the existing buildings and replace them with a residential development.

A roundup of East Village stories from around the web, including the death of the Bowery Mural proprietor, a countersuit in the Body Evolutions case, and more.