Madonna • Lower East Side • Film Premiere Threats

October 2008 - After selling out New York's Madison Square Garden for four straight nights, pop diva Madonna appeared at the premiere of her very own film in mid October. Madonna went to her own movie premiere.

Held at the Sunshine Cinema on the Lower East Side, Madonna, the new director complained about the few empty seats in the auditorium ("I'm used to much bigger crowds than this, that's all I have to say," she said). She was here on the lower east side to show off her first film, "Filth and Wisdom." Seen in the crowd there and at the after party were Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Alba, Marc Jacobs, Steven Klein, Ingrid Sischy, Bruce Weber and Jason Lewis of Sex and the City fame. Filed under: Madonna on the Lower East Side.

August 2008 - The hotelier who is going to open the new Thompson LES Hotel, Jason Pomeranc was quoted this week as saying this of the day his hotel opens: "going to be a moment in time that will be remembered as kind of when the Lower East Side came of age." Tell that to the folks at the Mercury Lounge, Katz' Deli and WD50, all of whom might beg to differ!


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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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