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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Lower east side - What They Never Told You

Lower East Side street named for ‘King of Comics’ Jack Kirby, a nod to one of the countless kids of immigrants who shaped the genre

The gesture may lack the explosive drama of a rooftop fight or the tension of a car chase, but on May 11, 2026, a street sign honoring a legendary comics creator will be unveiled in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

The Conversation

Why the New York Stock Exchange just crowned a Gen Z billionaire: Shayne Coplan figured out a society that gambles on everything

Coplan, 27, started Polymarket in the bathroom of his Lower East Side apartment.

Fortune

Fed-up NYC artist accused of waging ‘war’ on hipster owners of viral photo booth set up outside her home

Exclusive: The daughter of acclaimed artists Susan Rothenberg and George Trakas has been accused of being so bothered by throngs of hipsters lining up for the Old Friend Photobooth outside her Lower East Side home that she’s dumped urine on the booth’s owner and smeared feces on their plant pots

The Independent UK

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Jewish summer camps have been evolving for a century − but 2024 is a summer like no other

In 1902, 10-year-old Isidore Itzkowitz accepted a scholarship to attend an overnight camp in upstate New York. “Izzy,” an orphan raised by his grandmother in a dingy tenement-house basement, fit the profile of children the Educational Alliance, a settlement house, was looking to help. The animating idea of its camp…

The Conversation

Driver Crashes Into Manhattan Park, Killing Two During Fourth Of July Celebration

Tragic incident in Manhattan's Lower East Side during Fourth of July celebration leaves two dead and seven injured after a pickup truck crashes into a park.

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Freedom has been a hoot, but can Flaco the owl survive New York City?

The Eurasian eagle owl has been living in Central Park since escaping the zoo, and just returned from a Lower East Side visit

The Guardian - US

Sara Bareilles leads charge to save NYC's Rockwood Music Hall

NEW YORK — Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles will play a pair of Friday shows at Rockwood Music Hall in attempt to keep the struggling Lower East Side club open.

Tribune News Service

Make Me Famous review – dirt-dishing study of the glory days of the Lower East Side

This touching documentary revisits the grimy Manhattan of the 70s and 80s in search of long-lost painter Edward Brezinski

The Guardian - UK

Man charged with killing a doctor, fatally slashing stranger’s throat, attacking bar patrons in NYC spree

NEW YORK — A man stopped by police in a stolen Mercedes-Benz in the Bronx has been charged with randomly stabbing to death of a doctor in a Harlem park, fatally slashing a stranger’s neck on a Lower East Side sidewalk, and stabbing two customers inside an East Harlem bar…

Tribune News Service

The ultimate New York City guide: Where to stay, eat, drink and shop in the Big Apple

CITY GUIDES: NYC is the city you want to get right – whether that’s a hotel in the neighbourhood you most want to explore, the totally-worth-it dinner bill or the sightseeing shortlist, says Lucy Thackray

The Independent UK

2 hurt in Molotov cocktail attack on NYC beauty salon, NYPD says

NEW YORK — Two people suffered burns after someone tossed a Molotov cocktail into a Lower East Side beauty salon Sunday afternoon, police said.

Tribune News Service

French financier commits suicide while touring $2.3m New York apartment

The French businessman also had properties in Brooklyn and the Lower East Side

The Independent UK

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Christian Cowan’s NY Fashion Week Show Went 102 Stories Up

To a screeching party soundtrack 102 floors up the Freedom Tower on hallowed 9/11 ground, British wunderkind Christian Cowan helped open New York Fashion Week on Friday night with a riot of sequins, feathers and little T-shirts of love to the city he now calls home. The 25-year-old designer who…

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