Last week “Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg” opened at the Grey Art Gallery. The photos of Beat icons amount to a love letter to a lost New York. They prompted novelist Porochista Khakpour to look back.

Guess someone hasn’t seen those “Shopping 7-11? Shame on You!” stickers.

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Stephen Rex Brown Being The Local ain’t always easy. Last year someone hacked our Twitter account and stole all of our followers. Boy, was that a bummer. But things are looking up: the new @nytlev handle just got its 1,500 follower, and we just passed 2,500 likes on Facebook. That’s almost as cool as getting […]

Nicole Guzzardi Let’s douse some more cold water on those ridiculous rumors that Mermaid Inn is taking over the Candela Candela space, shall we? Turns out, the owners of the Cuban-Italian restaurant are remodeling it and turning into an organic Italian eatery. Candela Candela officially closed its doors last Sunday, said owner Shai Zvibak. Mr. […]

Dana Varinsky A woman thought to be 75 years old was hit by a taxi while crossing East Sixth Street at Avenue C this afternoon. According to a construction worker who was present at the time, a police car was at the corner when the accident occurred, and responded immediately. The woman was taken to […]

Two of the buildings are responsible for the anti-Shaoul blog Occupy East 4th Street.

Want to buy a four-story luxury townhouse from a media power couple? Congrats, the one that Rachael Weisz and Daniel Craig are said to have checked out just got $1 million cheaper!

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Bellwether, the restaurant that Josh Cohen opened in the former Royal Oak space a little over a year ago, has quietly closed – at least, for the moment.

The storefront at 141 First Avenue that held the original location of Ramen Setagaya and then its replacement, Ramen Kuidouraku, and then yet another noodle joint, Ichiraku Ramen, is set to become (you guessed it!) another ramen joint.

Students at East Side Community High School returned to their building on East 12th Street today for the first time since structural issues forced them to evacuate in September.

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A lion on the Bowery?

Mermaid Inn’s TwitterYo, rumormongers: get a clue! Last week the Mermaid Inn tweeted that it had some “pretty exciting news to share about the East Village” soon. Of course, it wasn’t long before the neighborhood rumor mill kicked into high gear, as several readers told EV Grieve that the restaurant was expanding next-door. That blog’s […]

Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong continue sorting through their archives of punk-era concert footage as it’s digitized for the Downtown Collection at N.Y.U.’s Fales Library. Emily Armstrong In 1980, Ronald Reagan ushered in a long cold winter of conservatism in America. But a little bit of heat was generating on the Lower East Side. Over […]

The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center wants Drew Figueroa, a former program director and board member, to shut down the lobby bar he has operated for over a decade, but he isn’t going without a fight.

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Suzanne Rozdeba Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, everyone. We’re off contemplating the windows at 7A. Barring any breaking news, we’ll see you back here tomorrow!