January, 2008

Cover image: The State of the L.E.S. is GOOD. We’re running two different Articles this month on the economy of the neighborhood, and both are optimistic. Not a shabby trick in these times of housing market busts and recession fears elsewhere in the country. Photo: Pat Arnow. 		EDITORIAL
My Three One One Waltz

THE TALK OF GRAND STREET
Velazquez Warns of Recession, Slonim Attacks City Decisions at LES BID Meet

THE TALK OF GRAND STREET
Don’t Build a New Ball Field Without Us

THE TALK OF GRAND STREET
Quinn Touts Rapid Testing for HIV at Gouverneur Press Conference

THE TALK OF GRAND STREET
Henry Street Settlement to Receive Abandoned Firehouse

THE TALK OF GRAND STREET
Peaceful Vote in East River May Not Be a Sign of Things to Come

THE TALK OF GRAND STREET
Grand Street Settlement Hosts 500 for Thanksgiving

GRAND ART
Oil, Identity, and Solo Debuts
Noise for the Neighborhood ... Off the Table and into the Pickle Jar

GRAND MUSIC
Lee Bob Is Nobody’s Hipster
A weathered California stylist charms the NYC crowd at the Mercury Lounge

GRAND DINING
Unambitious Pleasures
Elyssa Dido is happy to be a good neighborhood restaurant

GRAND FINANCE
The People’s Bank
A neighborhood bank with a very different bottom line

GRAND WALLS
Graffiti School
Legendary street artists move up to the roof at Seward Park High School

GRAND ADVISE
No Doom & Gloom This Side of the Holland Tunnel
Co-Op Village mortgage specialist Steven Lazarus says there are good reasons why Manhattan and the LES aren’t hit by the housing bust

GRAND GAME
Edgies Hoops

GRAND PARENTING
Baby Talk at Henry Street
January is chock full of programs for parents and babies

GRAND SHOW
Assemblage on Steroids
A complex gallery welds the LES’s past and future

RIVER VIEW
Transplanted in Time and Place
Looking for our lost youth in Melbourne turned out to be a fairly solitary affair




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