Katz's Deli • Lower East Side • NYC • Best Pastrami!

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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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
Chloe, latest underground bar

Did you know?

January 2009 - The latest hipster joint for socializing and drinking comes in the form of the subterranean lounge, Chloe. To enter, you must know the doorway, for that is the true mark of the hipster wold in 2009. Door knowledge is power (so is the number of a good car service late at night). In this case, the door is on Ludlow Street and Chloe is right underneath the French bistro Casanis. So now you know. Doesn't the photo to the right look like a lucious banquette.

Beware, the leftover white subway tile from McNally's Schiller's Liquor Bar is a featured part of the decor here! Soft lights, red banquettes, nice date place if there was anything else around.

	January 2009 - While it was announced during 2008 that Streit's matzo factory would pull up its roots on Rivington Street on the Lower East Side, the economic downturn of the summer and fall of 2008 altered those plans for the factory.
The company's initial hope was to leave the lower east side and move its factory operations entirely to New Jersey. This caused quite an uproar when it was announced in 2008; many decried the final days of the Jewish Lower East Side were near (Katz Deli still holds down a corner on East Houston Street).

Thanks for visiting the Lower East Side!

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