The Box 189 Chrystie Street Visit their website	The Box is one of the most interesting entertainment spaces in New York City. For the first thing, it has a Broadway-musical celebrity pedigree. One of the owners has the last name Hammerstein. We won't belabor this point here; if you don't know what this means and want to know, let Google shine and lead you through the gazillions sources of information sources that will educate you. For another piece of its geneology, another of its investors is an owner of otherdowntown restaurants and
	bars: witness La Esquina and the up-the-street-bar on Chrystie Street, the 205 Bar. The Box opened in February 2007. Other owners include a producer behind the Donkey Show and a member of The Wooster Group. Ah, but to the most fun for us is the owner who is also the designer of another lower east side restaurant, Suba. He is a convicted criminal!

OWNERS IN THE NEWS • DATELINE • New York City • January 2008 • Cordell Lochin, a part owner in The Box, 189 Chrystie St., and La Esquina, 106 Kenmare St., was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday, Jan. 23 by a federal judge in Maine for his role in a ring that smuggled marijuana to the U.S. from Canada, according to the New York Post. Lochin pleaded guilty to the charges in 2006 in exchange for a two-year reduction in his sentence. He has since disputed his ownership interest in the two clubs, but court papers allege that he earns $177,000.