Mayor Mamdani and DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn at the Williamsburg Bridge, Jan. 6, 2026. ( Photo: Brian Berger) Williamsburg ‘Bump’ Begone! Mamdani Hails Bridge Bike Lane Fix Have you heard about the Williamsburg “Bump”? It’s not a new dance craze, cocktail, cannabis strain or trendy underground... News 10 Jan 2026 | 07:50
A Monroe Street entrance to Knickerbocker Village. ( Photo: Brian Berger) Lower East Side Murder Suspect Caught! It Was Matricide New facts have emerged about the dreadful Dec. 19, 2025, murder of 76-year-old Zhu Hou in her Knickerbocker Village apartment... 05 Jan 2026 | 10:57
Locals have long enjoyed relaxing in the Elizabeth Street Garden and until recently thought they had achieved a last-minute reprieve to halt development plans. ( Photo: Marie Pohl) New Peril for Elizabeth Street Garden: Developers Sue the City The fate of the Elizabeth Street Garden, a community and sculpture garden in Little Italy, remains uncertain once again.... News 24 Nov 2025 | 05:36
Basquiat family members holding up the new street sign on the corner of Great Jones Street and Bowery. ( Photo: Marie Pohl) Jean-Michel Basquiat Still Rising on Streets & at Auctions The recent street naming in honor of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat has brought to light a torn-up photocopy of a rental... News 13 Nov 2025 | 07:18
New York Herald headlines of Dec. 3, 1893. ( Photo: Public Domain) Canter’s Lowly Resting Place: Three Old Jewish Cemeteries Revisited Often in historical research one stumbles upon something other than that which they were looking for. So it occurred recently... Voices 10 Nov 2025 | 01:45
From the LICH collection: Gustav Bock and the String Quartet, 2024. ( Photo: Courtesy Ki Smith Gallery) The House That Bock Built “The whole series boils down to storytelling and how that creates biases within nations. Germany is very well known for its... City Arts 22 Oct 2025 | 05:14
Wanted for Hate Crime Assault on East Houston Street, Sept. 8. ( Photos: NYPD) Hate Crime on Houston St.; Attempted Subway Rapist Sentenced Police are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying the individuals wanted in connection with a hate crime assault... News 06 Oct 2025 | 12:11
Left: Parade over the Corlears Hook Park Bridge. Right: East River Park amphitheater, a work in progress. ( Photos: Friends of Corlears Hook Park; Brian Berger) That New Corlears Hook Bridge to East River Park? Wow! It might not be the yellow brick road, but the paths to and from the new Corlears Hook Park Bridge to the East River Park... News 05 Oct 2025 | 04:35
Dashing Whippets track meet, Aug. 16, 2025; runners line up for “A” heat mile. New York Lions youth football practice in background (right rear). Inset: A sign announces the closing of this section of East River Park. ( Photos: Brian Berger) East River Park Track Closes, Corlears Hook Bridge Reopens If you want to talk about the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project—involving flood control and other things—you’d best be... News 15 Sep 2025 | 08:52
Left: Booty from recent Washington Square Park drug busts; right: NYPD warns against mail fishing. ( Photos: NYPD) Drug Busts in Washington Square; Mailbox Thefts in East Village Police continue to arrest the purveyors of illegal narcotics including crack, methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl in Washington... News 25 Aug 2025 | 02:35
Alleged rapist Anthony Smith on Aug. 10, 2025. ( Photo: NYPD) Alleged Hell’s Kitchen Rapist Arrested on Lower East Side A suspect in the recent assault and attempted rape of a 21-year-old woman in Times Square has been arrested. To the surprise... News 17 Aug 2025 | 06:27
Left: Vladeck Houses in March 2025, after a cop was shot there serving a warrant. Right and top: Wanted for robbery and assault on a Wall Street 3 train. ( Photo: Brian Berger; NYPD) 3 Men Shot on LES, 2 Teens Arrested; Woman Slashed & Robbed on Wall St. Subway In early morning shooting incident in the NYCHA Vladeck Houses on August 5 left three men wounded and two teenagers arrested.... 11 Aug 2025 | 11:26
Downtown officers have been looking for, and finding, illegal guns on the Lower East Side. ( Photo: NYPD) Gun Bust in Alphabet City; Fulton Street Subway Shover Sentenced While much of New York was still processing the mass shooting at 345 Park Ave. that killed four people on July 28, alert... News 04 Aug 2025 | 10:28
Left: Women at Henry M. Jackson Playground. Right: Men at Seward Park. ( Photos: Brian Berger) Mini Chinese 9-Man Volleyball Tourney Thrills Thousands on LES A screaming comes across the sky. It’s a red, white, and blue Mikasa volleyball, and on the weekend of July 19-20, across... News 29 Jul 2025 | 04:54
Left: Our Lady of Sorrows’ Mets Little League coach. Right: Woman shooting baskets next to the highway. ( Photos: Brian Berger) East River Park Reopens to High Praise & Some Concerns It’s real, it’s beautiful, mostly, and it’s LOUD, in parts, most definitely, if not deafeningly. Say what?! Hold on, let’s... News 02 Jun 2025 | 12:30
