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Did you know that the Broadway musical, "West Side Story" was originally set on the Lower East Side. Yes, it's true. The composers intended to write a musical based on the themes of Romeo and Juliet but featuring tensions in this New York City neighborhood between Catholics and Jews. It was to take place between Passover and Easter. The composers felt no inspiration from this setting and the project went nowhere. Arthur Laurents stepped in and suggested the setting change from religious to racial tension and a move to the upper west side and 'West Side Story' took shape.

The Thompson LES Hotel missed its July 15, 2008 deadline to open on Allen Street on the Lower East Side. Around the corner from Stanton Street, the hotel promises a rooftop pool with an Andy Warhol mural in mosaic on the pool floor. Andy would have been so proud. Will we finally get to see Moby in swim trunks hanging out here on the roof?
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One eyed flower Graffiti
flower on the outside wall of Alias Restaurant

at Alias Restaurant

 
 
 
   
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vegetables   March 2010 - Monkshood Nursery and Gardens, a farm located in upstate New York, is very interested in being the food provider of fresh produce in a citizen co-op environment on the lower east side of Manhattan. This long overdue endeavor would be a partnership between the farm and the co-op member, forming a CSA. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture, which is a program for purchasing fresh produce from a single, regional farm. With a CSA, members buy a fixed-price share of a farm's output at the beginning of the season, and receive a selection of their harvest once a week from June through October. For more information, visit: http://www.edalliance.org
   
 
 
   
Artists of the Lower East Side Show - National Trust for Historic Preservation
Tenement Museum Irish Museum

Thompson LES Hotel Pool
Artists Open House Tenement Museum Location
Andy Warhol rooftop pool mosaic Jason Pomeranc big mouth
West Side Story connects to Lower East Side Milk Bone Dog Biscuit history in NYC
NYC News Archive Madonna on the Lower East Side
Allen Street Mall Makeover Refurbishing Life on Mars TV show shoots on the Lower East Side
Lou Reed's Apartment Lower East Side Fake Sunglasses Connection
Tenement Museum Denies Union Organizers LES Tenement Museum Receives Award
Andy Warhol Swims in a Rooftop Pool Late Night Dinner Lower East Side
Chloe, latest underground bar What to do Lower East Side Winter
Bars Nightclubs Lower East Side Restaurants Lower East Side
Guss Pickles move Brooklyn World's Largest Matzo Ball
Vietnamese Beer Garden Guss Pickles Porn Advertisement
Lower East Side Boutiques to London Sunshine Cinema Manhattan
Alife Gallery Lower East Side Clayton Patterson Photographs
Manhattan Cupcake Crawl Katz's Deli Extinct Soon?
NYC Subway Purse Hook NYC Subway Purse Hanger
 
 
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