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News from the Lower East Side

OCT.2014

A Conversation with the Essex Crossing Developers

BMX rider TyroneWilliams’s LES

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October 2014

letter from the Editor:

Up until very recently, many street-smart Lower East Siders did not believe anything was actually going to happen on the former “SPURA” redevelopment parcels along Delancey Street. After walking past those parking lots for four decades, they remained skeptical, even as urban renewal plans were winding their way through the city bureaucracy. But today, six months from groundbreaking for the big residential and retail project, even the most ardent doubters concede the development, known as Essex Crossing, is a reality. Recently, we got the chance to sit down with two key members of the development team to talk about what we can all expect to happen when winter turns into spring next year. The interview — addressing topics such as the building designs, their vision for a food-centric “Market Line” and possible efforts to save a scarred synagogue on a neighboring parcel — is this month’s cover story. Also in this issue, a look at renovation plans at the Henry Street Settlement, Mission Chinese Food’s move to East Broadway and a talk with Division Street’s very own BMX hot shot, Tyrone Williams. We hope you enjoy the October magazine. Remember to check us out online every day at thelodownny.com.

in this issue

Cover StoryQ&A with the Essex Crossing developers

New ArrivalsRicky’s Halloween stores, Ludlow Hotel, Evolu-tion Enrichment Center

Calendar/Featured Events Nightmare New York, Lower East Side Pickle Day, Miranda July at the New Museum

Neighborhood NewsKatz’s Deli sells air rights, pedestrian killed on South Street, Orchard Street redesign

The Lo-DineMission Chinese relocates to East BroadwayBriefs: Battle for former Shalom Chai space, Dirty French debuts, champagne & fried chicken

Arts WatchA tribute to Rebecca Lepkoff

My LESBMX freestyle rider and bike shop owner Tyrone Williams

News FeatureA $20 million facelift for Henry Street Settlement

LES SidewaysEvan Forsch’s cartoon

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The intersection of Essex and Delancey streets is the gateway to Essex Crossing.

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ARIELLE DE PINTO DESIGNS (286 Grand St., ariellepinto.com): The Canadian jewelry designer leased a 1,200-square-foot space to serve as a New York headquarters. Working in Montreal since 2007, de Pinto is known for her crocheted chain and metal necklaces. The Lower East Side location is a studio, not a retail outlet, but is available to customers on a by-ap-pointment basis.

COLFAX & BALE (174 Ludlow St., shortdaysandlongnightscloth-ing.com): The Lower East Side gains another men’s streetwear boutique with the opening of Colfax & Bale in the former home of Dare-devil Tattoo on Ludlow Street. The store offers clothing, footwear and accessories, plus there’s a gallery space for art shows. A grand opening was held in late September.

EVOLUTION ENRICHMENT CENTER (30 Delancey St., evolutionenrichment.com): The new day care center, preschool and enrichment program is operating from a 15,000-square-foot space in a high-rise building bordering Sara D. Roosevelt Park. Evolution Enrichment, which opened this summer, of-fers a variety of classes for children ages 2 to 14, including chess, martial arts, rhythmic gymnastics, musical theater, art, SAT prep, ballet, dance and Chinese language. The center is awaiting permit approval to operate the day care and preschool facilities. The center offers tuition assistance. The partners in the privately held business also run adult day care centers in Manhattan.

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Dead Centre’s Lippy at Abrons: Widely regarded as one of the most extraordinary works to come out of Ireland last year, up-and-coming experimental theater company Dead Centre comes to Abrons for its U.S. debut. Inspired by a true story of an aunt and three nieces who boarded themselves into their home and entered a suicide pact/hunger strike that lasted 40 days, Lippy is an investigation into why we tell stories in the face of trag-edy. 466 Grand St., Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 and 7 p.m., $20, abronsartscenter.org.

Nightmare New York at Clemente Soto Velez: The re-nowned haunted house team tackles a new theme, delving into New York City’s legendary horror stories and urban legends, from Cropsey to gar-goyles, alligators in the subways and new legends of the super rats created by Hurricane Sandy. Note: this experience is designed for adults; it’s gory! Children under 10 are not admitted and parents are strongly cautioned about bringing children under 16. Through Saturday, Nov. 2, 107 Suffolk St., ticket prices range from $20 for students to $60 for VIP entry (see website for details), nightmarenyc.com.

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12th Annual Open-house NewYork Weekend: America’s largest architecture and design event offers free tours of some of the city’s most intriguing spaces that you might not ordi-narily be able to access. Highlights in the neighborhood include tours of the Henry Street Settlement’s historic headquarters, the Eldridge Street Synagogue and highly designed private residences curated by Interior Design magazine. Also Sunday, Oct. 12, free, but some sites require reservations, ohny.org.

Creatures of Habit at Dixon Place: Back by popular demand, the Moving Men series features seven dancers who find themselves in an absurd, yet strangely familiar universe. Choreographed to an original score by Daniel Kazemi, this piece draws inspiration from slapstick comedy, children's stories, game shows and existential drama. Each evening begins with new works in progress by a diverse roster of contemporary choreographers.

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All This Has Come Upon Us at the Museum at Eldridge Street: Czech Television’s second documentary film on artist Mark Podwal offers a portrait of the creative process behind his recent

Terezin Ghetto Museum ex-hibition of 42 archival pigment

prints of acrylic, gouache and colored pencil works on paper. Filmed in Prague, Terezin, Auschwitz, Krakow and in New York at the Eldridge Street Synagogue, the documentary includes interviews with leading personalities discussing Podwal’s art. 12 Eldridge St., 7 p.m., free, eldridgestreet.org.

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Lower East Side Pickle Day: Lower East Side Pickle Day: The annual fun-filled day of pickle mania returns, including more than 20 picklers, over 30 local food and fashion vendors, games, DJs and live music, plus face-painting and a kids’ costume contest. The festival is part of the DayLife neighborhood event series hosted by the Lower East Side Business Improvement District. Orchard Street, from Delancey to East Houston,

noon to 5 p.m., free, lowereastsideny.com.

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1924th Annual Tompkins Square Park Halloween Dog Parade: Dress up the pooch and enter to win over $4,000 worth of prizes, including an iPad Mini for Best in Show, in this all-out event

that has come to rival the official Village Halloween parade. Grateful Greyhounds,

Bide-A-Wee, Friends of Animal Rescue and the Mayor's Alliance for New York City Animals will also be on hand with canines that need loving homes.Tompkins Square Park, noon to 3 p.m., free, tompkinssquaredogrun.com.

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21CMJ Music Marathon 2014: CMJ Music Marathon 2014: This below-the-radar festival is 34 years in. Each fall, thousands of artists, music fans and industry insiders descend on the city for live shows, exclusive parties, conference events, seminars and mix-ers, all in the hopes of being discovered and discover-ing new music. Many LES venues are participating; see individual websites for specific show schedules and cover charges. Through Oct. 25, cmj.com/marathon.

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9Prolific artist and filmmaker Miranda July describes and demonstrates her new text-messaging service, Somebody. The service, an iOS application available for free download, continues July’s longstanding exploration of ways to humanize interactions with technology. She describes the operation of the ap-plication in the following way: “When you send your friend a message through Somebody, it goes not to your friend, but to the Somebody user nearest your friend. This person (probably a stranger) delivers the message verbally, acting as your stand-in.” The New Museum is acting as a hotspot for Somebody as part of a distributed launch that also includes the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Portland Insti-tute of Contemporary Art; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Museo Jumex, Mexico City. 235 Bowery, 7 p.m., $10, newmuseum.org.

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retailLast September, the New York Economic Development Corp., which runs the Essex Street Market, declined to renew the permit for Three Brothers Clothing, which was a fixture there for 20 years. The owner, Carmen Salvador, took the city to court, arguing that market management was in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and state laws. A state Supreme Court judge last month denied a preliminary injunction, which would have allowed Salvador to operate her business while the case was decided. She was instructed to clear her stall by Sept. 19. Salvador’s attorney, Maia Goodell of Manhattan Legal Services, said her client is weighing her options before deciding whether to continue the case. Last November, Salvador said she suffered from several medical conditions, includ-ing respiratory and thyroid problems and hypertension. While she contended that market manage-ment knew about absences related to the illnesses, city officials argued they were not properly notified and did not approve the absences. The judge ruled that Salvador did not provide enough evidence to warrant a preliminary injunction.

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The NYPD’s Seventh Precinct is stepping up patrols in East River Park after two robberies that took place minutes apart on Aug. 21. The first incident happened around midnight when a group of four suspects, at least one with a gun, approached a man and woman and stole the woman’s purse. A short time later, the suspects swiped a watch from an 18-year-old man. Police say the sus-pects used a credit card from the female victim at a nearby McDonald’s. At the September meeting of the precinct’s community council, Captain Joseph Simonetti said officers are enforc-ing the park’s midnight curfew. About 20 arrests were made in a one-month period. Simonetti said he’s urging the Parks Depart-ment to install security cameras in East River Park. He’s also calling for better lighting on Delancey Street, alongside the Williamsburg Bridge and leading to FDR Drive. The sus-pects in the August robberies are still on the loose. There are two men and two women in the crew; witnesses have said they’re in their late teens or early 20s. If you know anything about these crimes, call Crimestoppers at 800-577-TIPS.

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The Lower East Side Business Improvement District in September unveiled its master plan for Orchard Street. The blueprint, designed by local architectural firm Pilot Projects, is meant to im-prove safety, traffic flow and aesthetics on the historic retail strip from Canal Street to East Houston Street. At a meeting of Community Board 3’s transportation committee, some members cautioned against any redesign that might diminish Orchard Street’s distinctive character and expressed concern about a proposed pedestrian plaza on Broome Street. The plan is meant to address several issues, in-cluding: a lack of continuity from one block to the next, insufficient bike parking, congestion from truck loading and unloading and excessive traffic caused by motorists using Orchard as a route to the Wil-liamsburg Bridge. While some funding is secured, the plan will be implemented in phases, as money for streetscape improvement becomes available. It designates locations for plantings, bike racks, seating and other amenities. The proposal creates designated loading zones and clusters pedestrian-friendly areas at street corners by establishing curb cuts. Although some parking spots will be eliminated to cre-ate the loading areas, the plan actually calls for a net gain of 27 spaces. The CB3 panel approved the plan with the understanding that the BID would return with specific proposals in the future.

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An 82-year-old woman, Shu Fan Huang, died from injuries suffered after she was struck by a car on South Street near Rutgers Slip in late August. According to police, she and two other women were walking against a traffic signal when the driver of a Volvo heading north hit them. The victims were all taken to Bellevue Hospital. The other victims, both in their 60s, suffered seri-ous injuries but made full recoveries. City Council member Margaret Chin said the tragic accident was a “sad reminder of the need for swift action to review the signals, signage and other elements [in the area] in order to make them safer for all pe-destrians to cross, regardless of their age or level of mobility.” The Department of Transportation or-dered a safety review. Local residents have voiced concern about safety issues as more pedestrians cross South Street to access a new recreational area alongside the East River. Huang lived at 201 Madison St., just two blocks from the scene of the accident.

Rendering of Orchard Street design by Pilot Projects

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Katz’s Deli has sold the air rights to its building at 205 E. Houston St., but co-owner Jake Dell said the 126-year-old res-taurant is staying put for years to come. While he would not disclose the buyer or just what will happen with the unused develop-ment rights, Dell told The Lo-Down, “the most important thing is that the future of Katz’s is secure.” In a statement, he added, “no devel-oper can ever come in and knock us down to put in a high-rise. At no point will anyone value the corner of Houston and Ludlow for any-thing other than Katz’s Delicatessen.” Asked whether a developer could build on top of the deli or whether the air rights would be shifted to an adjacent property, Dell said he couldn’t elaborate, saying only that Katz’s would oper-ate continuously and would “not be closed for a single day.” During the summer, three prop-erties on Orchard Street, on the same city block as Katz’s, were sold to an entity controlled by a mysterious corporation. Meanwhile, a longtime restaurant in one of those buildings, Bereket, shuttered, fueling rumors that a large development deal is in the works.

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It’s one of the swiftest changeovers ever on the Lower East Side. Just a few hours after Rosette’s owner Ron Castellano announced he was shutter-ing his restaurant just eight months in, celebrated chef Danny Bowien went public over Twitter with photos of Rosette’s front door, announcing his plans to move his wildly popular—but currently homeless—restaurant, Mission Chinese Food, into Rosette’s spot at 171 E. Broadway.

Less than a week after news of Mission Chi-nese’s new home went public, the liquor licensing subcommittee of Community Board 3 signed off on his proposal to reopen on East Broadway with a full bar permit, and plans were underway for the big move. The new tenant isn’t planning any big changes to the interior of the 74-seat restaurant, which is expected to open soon.

Bowien, who also operates Mission Cantina at 172 Orchard St., was driven from his much smaller original location of Mission Chinese on Orchard Street last year by rodents and a landlord dispute. He told the CB3 committee that he does not ex-pect crowds to be waiting on the street, as was the case in the old location, because the East Broad-way space is so much larger. He also noted that

169 Bar is right next door, so people waiting for a table have a place to go.

The highly designed space has not been an easy location in which to do business. Rosette at-tempted to walk a fine line between catering to locals and destination diners. Though the area around East Broadway, Rutgers and Canal streets has become a hot dining and nightlife spot in the last couple of years, some restaurants continue to struggle.

Nick Curtin, Rosette’s chef who’d come from Noho’s Acme, relocated to Copenhagen this fall. The general manager, Lisa Limb, also made an exit last month. The space formerly housed two other Castellano ventures, LTO and Broadway East. As LTO (an acronym for Limited Time Only), it hosted guest chefs trying out new concepts with pop-up dinners and other special events, including a Chi-nese New Year banquet prepared by Bao Haus chef Eddie Huang and other high-profile projects.

“My partner has been having serious health is-sues that need his full attention,” Castellano told the food blog Eater NY. “On top of that, we got an offer for the space that’s too good to pass up.”

Bowien’s takeover ushers in a new era for the space, which once upon a time was home

to Schildkraut Vegetarian Restaurant, a spot frequented by Yiddish writers after they dropped off their manuscripts at The Forward Building, just one door away. It is laid out with a bar/lounge area in the front and a large dining room to the rear, as well as a subterranean-level private dining room that houses a large banquet table. A wood-burning oven inspired some of Curtin’s most interesting vegetable dishes, and Bowien’s postings on social media since the news broke indicate he plans to employ fire in creative ways, as well.

In accordance with an agreement with SPaCE, the local block association, Mission Chinese will be open from noon to midnight during the first part of the week and noon to 1 a.m. Thursday through Saturday. The restaurant will have a full bar. After six months, Bowien and partner Andrew Yang will be able to request a 2 a.m. closing from the com-munity board. They agreed to close their windows each night at 10 p.m.

Meanwhile, Castellano, an architect and co-founder of the Hester Street Fair, is now floating the idea of reopening Rosette in Detroit, where he has been working on development projects. He continues to restore the Jarmulowsky Bank Build-ing, on Orchard Street, which is destined to be-come a boutique hotel.

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Pig & Khao, Leah Cohen’s Asian fusion restau-rant on Clinton Street, marks its second anniver-sary this month. To celebrate, the team is throw-ing a party in the style of an adult carnival, with magic shows, clowns and tarot card readers, along with DJs, popcorn and cotton candy. The main attraction at the Oct. 5 event is unlimited suckling pig lechon, side dishes and unlimited draft beer. The fun kicks off at 3 p.m. and runs until 10 p.m. Tickets are $40; find more info at facebook.com/pigandkhao.

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After months of delays, the popular Venezuelan street food joint’s LES outpost finally debuted in mid-September. It’s the third restaurant in the small family-owned chain, which began as a food truck in 2005; the other locations are in Washington Heights and Elmhurst. The namesake dish is a sandwich framed by fried green plantain patties in place of bread, filled with a variety of meat and veggie combos. There’s a version of a Cubano with pulled pork, and an excellent vegetarian option featuring beans,

avocados and fried cheese. Other sandwich styles include arepas, tachuchos (burrito-style wraps), and cachapas (made with sweet corn cakes); all of them are priced at $8 to $10.

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The newest restaurant from the Major Food Group (the team behind Torrisi and Carbone) has arrived at the new Ludlow Hotel. It brings the metaphor of a dirty martini or dirty rice to French cooking—a departure for the team known for its Italian restaurants. “We’re taking a classic concept—in this case, the Parisian bistro—and adding bold and exotic flavors,” partner Jeff Zalaznick told Vogue last month. Reservations must be booked at least a month in advance. There’s also an accompanying lobby lounge and garden offering cocktails and people-watching.

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ding and green tea fluff cake. Juices cost $3 to $9, while smoothies are $6.50 to $8.50. Hours are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekends.

lunch, dinner, happy hour and late-night eats, as well as take-out and delivery. Try the vegetable samosas and the lamb rogen josh with a side of onion naan for dipping; the rice pudding is delicious, too. Hours are noon to 11 p.m. daily, and include lunch specials.

grand street updateWhen Shalom Chai pizzeria closed in June, many la-mented the departure of the last full-service kosher restaurant on the Lower East Side. Those laments, however, may well have been premature. Nathan Sklar, a lifelong Seward Park Co-op resident and lo-cal businessman, is proposing a new kosher eatery in the double storefront at 357-359 Grand St. “Our concept is a cafe where everyone can eat,” said Sk-lar, who would be making his first foray into the res-taurant business, in partnership with other investors and a chef who lives in East River Co-op. Sklar is the executive director of Comprehensive Companies, a collection of businesses that includes Comprehen-

sive Kids, a developmental school. Sklar’s proposal is one of four competing applications presented in August to the board of Seward Park Co-op, which owns the one-story commercial strip running from Essex Street to Clinton Street. The other three options include a Spanish restaurant by Grand Street residents Alex Raij and Eder Montero, a noted husband-and-wife chef team who own three other res-taurants and have already secured a liquor license there. Ned Baldwin, of East Village restaurant Prune, is proposing a third restaurant. The fourth applicant is The Pickle Guys, whose owners are seeking to relocate their well-known store around the corner into bigger space. A decision by the co-op board on a tenant will likely be made public sometime in October. Sklar’s proposal includes breakfast, lunch, din-ner, takeout and delivery, as well as a full liquor license and outdoor seating. “People need to know that kosher doesn’t have to mean dirty, or unfriendly,” Sklar said. “The neighborhood is changing, and we want to change with it.”

thing happened in the streets.” In 1945, she joined the Photo League, a group that believed in using the camera lens to effect social change. When it [the League] started, Lepkoff told Elkin, “there was no photography that had to do with life at all... No one took photographs of how people lived. The Photo League said ‘the world is out there’ and we should go out there and bring life back to be seen.” Later in life, Lepkoff split her time between New York City and Vermont. Following her death August 17, Jesse Lepkoff, her son, told a local newspaper, “She was an amazing artist, mother, and person.”

There is a rich tradition of street photography on the Lower East Side that is still very much alive today. This past summer, we lost a photographer who’s an inspiration to so many others who fol-lowed in her footsteps. Rebecca Lepkoff, who was born on Hester Street in 1916, died at her part-time home in Townshend, Vermont, just a few days after her 98th birthday. Lepkoff’s black-and-white photo-graphs from the 1940s and 1950s captured every-day life—kids playing in the street, women hanging laundry, people gathered on the front stoop. In a 2011 interview with The Lo-Down’s Tobi Elkin, Lep-koff recalled, “People lived in the streets—every-

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me young, I want to keep mastering stuff and stay agile, and I don’t care how old I get, I’ll never “grow up.”

How long have you worked on the Lower East Side?We’ve had Dah Shop for six and a half years (this month). But it’ll be a year that I’ve had it on my own. I originally started with a business partner but now it’s just me, by myself.

What made you decide to open Dah Shop here?The location kind of chose us. We really wanted to be near the Manhattan Bridge because I used to work at Metro Bikes on the west side, so the Manhattan Bridge was pretty much my daily rou-tine. I grew up in Flatbush, and that’s the route I would take every day. So at some point in time, it dawned on us that there wasn’t a bike shop

What do you do?I ride for Animal Bikes and I sell a lot of their prod-ucts—primarily their products—in my store. I've worked on some signature products with them and I’ve been riding with their company since 2000, since day one for me...I don’t like to cate-gorize the type of riding I do, but what we do most is street riding. There weren’t a lot of skate parks when we started riding and if there were, they didn’t allow bikes. I like to refer to what I do as “freestyle” because I can get on anything and be free and have fun. I like to ride a lot of different types of bikes to keep trying stuff out—it keeps

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anywhere around there. We knew that was part of what we wanted to do. Because either way, as commuters or riders, whatever style, if you need something or you get a flat you’re gonna hope there’s a bike shop nearby and you don’t have to walk too far. We came here and I think the landlord just took a liking to us and it just kind of worked out. Now people know us from all over the world. So we’ll hopefully be here for a long time.

Favorite cheap eats?I like to go to the bakery around the corner—Sun-rise Bakery on East Broadway, at the corner of Essex. That’s a good spot for quick, good pastries that you can get for a dollar or a dollar twenty-five. You can get good stuff on the go there. I also like going to Ming’s Cafe, which is the Chinese restaurant on Canal at the corner of Essex. My favorite quick eat is the peanut butter and jam toast ’cuz I’m a fanatic about peanut butter and jelly. I don’t know why. I like it a lot. It works. Some people think that’s all I run on ‘cuz i probably eat it almost every day. Peanut butter and jam toast for $1.25 with a cold Ovaltine made by Tiffany.

Favorite place for a special event?I like Bacaro, next door to the shop. Some people go there who are a little posh and they look at me like, what are you doing here? But I like that I can go in wearing basketball clothes and not be turned away. If you have a larger crowd you can go downstairs and there’s more seating. We’ve done a bunch of random celebrations there. I also like Forgtmenot, my other “NDN” [next door neighbor]. It’s two different vibes and two different atmospheres. Both are cool. Forgtmenot is a homestyle place: it’s a bar that serves good food with good people. Sometimes you can watch some soccer, but sometimes you can watch movies. I’ve seen so many movies there. It’s a place where you can chill and enjoy yourself and take a load off. Neither of the two places are pushy —they’re very relaxed.

How have you seen the neighborhood change?A lot more diverse businesses and galleries have opened up; some work, some don’t. There are a lot more places to eat and drink. It was really quiet when we opened. There was nothing ex-cept this nice Venetian restaurant [Bacaro] and Project 8, which was a posh ladies’ store that never had anyone in it. Some of the older, cheap

electronics businesses and such have had to move out because they were stuck in a different time period, things are moving faster now and it’s hard for them to stay around.

What do you miss from the old LES?These days, I’m always working, so I’m more fo-cused on what I’m doing than what’s going on out there. The job of running a business means life just whizzes by you. I look up and it’s the end of summer—what happened?

Is there a new arrival you love?I like Dimes. Dimes is cool. I’m not a crazy fan about restaurants, I don’t get all wowed out, but they’re cool. I mean, if there’s a place where you can enjoy good food, then it’s probably OK. When we first opened up, I was eating a lot of dumplings and stuff like that because it was cost-effective. But at the same time, I’m an athlete and I can’t be eating that shit all the time because it’s [messing] up my body.

What drives you crazy about the neighbor-hood?Not much, except when people have attitude or (continued on page 27)


receive upgrades for energy efficiency. The historic row houses at 263 and 265 Henry St. were selected by the Municipal Art Society for a “green building” demonstration project. Some enhancements have already been made, with more to come.

A capital campaign to support the renovations began in 2012 with the goal of raising $12 million. Foundations, all with representatives on the Henry Street Board of Directors, came forward with major gifts right away. The Louis and Anne Abrons Foun-dation, the Burch Family Foundation, the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Foundation and the Source of Hope Foundation all contributed $1 million or more. There were gifts from other foundations, corporations and individuals, and government enti-ties came up with another $3.3 million. The gifts al-lowed Henry Street to launch an even more robust fundraising campaign. Nearly $17 million has been pledged so far, with $3 million still to go.

Garza said it will take about three years to com-plete the projects. A public review process to give Henry Street ownership of the firehouse is about to get underway. The main goal, he said, is to make sure “Henry Street’s facilities match the high quality of its programs.”

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give you a look like “who are you?” with some sense of entitlement. But there’s not too much that irritates me because I’m pretty easygoing and open-minded.

Who’s the best neighborhood character you’ve met and why?Well, we’re all characters aren’t we? But my favorite neighborhood character lately is the Sikh mailman I see around here all the time. He custom-made his clothing so he could work for the post office. He has this tall turban and a long beard. I’m not sure what country he’s from; he might be from the Middle East. But he just has a look to him that’s like “yeah.” He has a custom-made uniform to fit with his religion. I see him and think, that dude’s dope. He used to wear the big Beats headphones on top of his whole turban wrap and I’d be like, “oh, my man is really doin’ it right now. He’s chillin’.” That’s what it's all about. He’s like, “OK, I work for The Man but so what, I got to make a living, but I’m gonna do it my way.”

Tell us your best LES memory.You know, it’s just every day that passes. You don’t know where you’re gonna go or how you’re gonna feel or how it’s going to end up. I never thought that I’d live to be 31 years old. I don’t feel like I’m 31 years old, I’m still a little kid on the inside. I’ll act like an adult when I have to, but if you want to live a long time, you have to be able to enjoy yourself.

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The Henry Street Settlement, one of the Lower East Side’s largest institutions, is preparing a major upgrade of its facilities. The $20 million project will include the transformation of an old firehouse that has been vacant for well over a decade and a facelift for the amphitheater at the Abrons Arts Center.

The firehouse at 269 Henry St. was closed fol-lowing the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. A plan has been in place for several years to transfer own-ership from the city to Henry Street, which has its headquarters right next door. But it took some time to raise the money to restore the building. Once the organization takes control, it will spend $5.5 million to convert the 1884 structure into a new Neighbor-hood Resources Center.

The design, from architectural firm Beyer Blinder Belle, emphasizes street access. The 5,000-square-foot building will become Henry Street’s front door, offering food stamp enrollment, legal services, a parent center, child care rooms and a community gathering space.

On Grand Street, the amphitheater will be re-designed as more open, accessible and welcom-ing. The Abrons Arts Center building, opened in the 1970s, has always been a bit foreboding and institutional. The revamp, by Ennead Architects, will

include moving the wall of the second-floor gallery out toward the street and installing floor-to-ceiling windows. There will be new landscaping, resurfac-ing and a ramp in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The current entrance just to the west of the amphitheater will be eliminated and a more obvious entryway created at the top of the theater steps. The project also includes repairs to the building’s exterior to prevent future water damage and upgrades to the adjoining 1915 play-house, a national historic landmark. The arts center improvements are expected to cost $7 million.

A few years ago, rumors circulated that Henry Street was entertaining offers from developers to sell air rights at Abrons Arts Center for possible con-dos. Henry Street Executive Director David Garza told The Lo-Down he couldn’t comment directly about that, but added that the organization’s in-vestment in the facility is a powerful statement of support for the reinvigorated arts program, which, he noted, has “tremendous momentum.”

At 301 Henry St., portions of the organiza-tion’s youth center will also see improvements. The lobby will be remodeled, a new kitchen will be in-stalled and the lower-level gym will be renovated. In addition, the organization’s headquarters will

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