A Look Back at the Bowery “Blue Book”
If you were down and out on the Bowery in the 1940s or 1950s, you wouldn’t want to earn the...
A Look at St. Patrick’s Day Parade’s Lower East Side Roots
St. Patrick holds a special place in the hearts of many New Yorkers. Not only is he the primary patron...
A Brief History of Public Housing on the Lower East Side
When the City Planning Commission formed on January 1, 1938, one of its primary initiatives was to revitalize the most...
The Food Riots of February, 1917
In February of 1917, thousands of local women organized to combat sharply rising food prices. Spurred on by well-known anarchist...
D.D. Badger Iron Works, 14th Street, 1850s
For over a century, the East Side hosted at times the largest concentration of factories, stables, warehouses, coal, lumber and...