Lower East Side News

Keith McCurdy, known as Bang Bang , bought his first tattoo machine when he was eighteen, moved to Manhattan was he was nineteen, and inked his first celebrity by twenty.

By CINDY ADAMS AS we speak, there's the Lower East Side Film Festival. Judges include Rebecca Miller.

The photographer Arthur Fellig had a reputation for getting to crime scenes before the cops.

Please join us in welcoming Bedford + Bowery , a hyperlocal web collaboration between New York and NYU, covering the East Village, Lower East Side, Williamsburg, Bushwick, and Greenpoint.

Members of the The Hold Steady, Spoon, The Wanted, and w/o are putting the finishing touches on Lake Street , a new bar with a Midwestern theme at 706 Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint.

It all started at a poker game. Leroy Justice front man, Jason Gallagher, went to a poker game in Manhattan's Lower East Side with his brother-in-law.

Hospital for Special Surgery will celebrate its 150th anniversary and honor the City of New York at its 30th Annual Tribute Dinner.

There's something undeniably timeless about Royal Young. Perhaps it's the author's piercing blue eyes, already filled with worldly wisdom at 28 or maybe it's the actual wisdom that comes from living as a celebrity-seeking "hustler," and finding the strength to break free from that dark abyss.

From dive bars to rooftop clubs and cult restaurants, the Big Apple is still on top, says Mark C O'Flaherty Note: We do not store your email address but your IP address will be logged to prevent abuse of this feature.

Harley Loco begins with a scene so difficult to read I put the book down and thought twice about continuing: it involves a locked storefront on the pre-Giuliani Lower East Side, a would-be john, a girl on her own, desperate for drugs and cash, and a gun Eventually, the gun does what guns always do, placed so self-consciously at the beginning of a ... (more)

NEW YORK – The world's oldest Jewish person, Evelyn Kozak, whose family fled Russia to escape anti-Semitism in the 1880s, has died at age 113.

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The growth of New York City exports is changing the manufacturing industry, with even "starchitects" shipping their services overseas, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Fourth-graders at PS 1 in Tottenville, dressed in costumes from the turn-of-the-last-century, pose for a black-and-white photograph for a lesson on immigration.

Dixon Place & The Apothetae present The Penalty, written by Clay McLeod Chapman and directed by Kris Thor, with music and lyrics by Robert M. Johanson and Clay McLeod Chapman .

Not long ago, Sabrina Jalees realized that it doesn't always get better at least as far as her Muslim relatives are concerned.

New York City police officers on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, where they reportedly were looking to arrest a suspect in a 2010 murder.

Temporary flood walls could be erected along the edge Manhattan's Lower East Side and elswhere when big storms approach.

Skating in New York City is never just skating, but also eating dumplings, encountering parties interested in the 'novelty' of a four-wheeled plank, doing short grinds on metal curbs, and maintaining a heavy lurk presence at various spots and skate shops.

Christina Medina, a Citi Habitats broker and former Reiki practioner, says that the East Village is the best neighborhood for her raw vegan lifestyle.