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rendering of the Abrons Art Center renovation showing brick facade and new updated entrance
Grand Street Grandeur

A renovation by Li/Saltzman Architects at Abrons Arts Center upgrades a Lower East Side staple

ABC No Rio’s building at 156 Rivington Street in New York’s Lower East Side before it was demolished in 2016 covered in graffiti art
Homecoming

ABC No Rio is moving back to 156 Rivington Street into a new ground-up building by Paul Castrucci Architects

Seward Park Extension existing
Facelift

NYCHA selects MDG, Essence, and Wavecrest Management to renovate multiple Lower East Side buildings under PACT/RAD

New York, New York

Architecture, fantasy, and city life are on display at After Lives, a group show curated by Foreign & Domestic Gallery

Community Cladding

Leroy Street Studio works with students to design a facade for affordable housing in the Lower East Side

east river park in the summer
Protection At A Price

New York begins demolition of East River Park for new concrete storm barriers

Interior of sandy liang flagship showcasing sweaters on a rack
Home Ground Advantage

Sandy Liang’s new Lower East Side flagship reflects eclectic and locally-inspired fashions

conceptual illustration of underground park in Manhattan, with solar tubes to bounce light around
When They Go High, We Go Low

Manhattan’s subterranean Lowline park flatlines

Photo of Essex Market, a food hall
Essexive Options

SHoP’s Essex Street Market brings food hall glory to the LES

Detail of a fluted granite facade at 277 Mott Street
Mott Street Crease

Toshiko Mori Architect greets the Lower East Side with CNC-milled granite

Photo of March to Reclaim the City by Sydney Franklin
No Towers, No Compromise

Architecture collective joins activists to protest luxury towers on New York’s Lower East Side

east river park
Lower Manhattan Landfill

New York City releases surprise plan to bury and rebuild East River Park

The interior of The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
Holy Rollers

Milton Resnick’s former studio reopens with retrospective of his work

(Courtesy Ascend/Optimum Group)
Rock the Vote

An air rights vote divides a Lower East Side community

(Courtesy Signs and Symbols)
Symbolic Order

Signs and Symbols gallery opens in LES with an architectural mission

Making Moves

Galerie Perrotin opens downtown after a five-story renovation by Peterson Rich Office

Rivington House, as of November 2017 (Google Earth)
Plans Filed

CetraRuddy to design Rivington House luxury condo conversion

This parking garage at Broome and Clinton streets will be replaced by an affordable housing tower.(Google Earth)
Get A Handel On It

Two 15-story affordable towers planned for Lower East Side

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