Above left, in the time-honored tradition of alternate-side parking, a Thompson St. resident sat in his pickup truck on Monday, at the appropriate times, after the street sweepers went by. He kept busy by practicing mandolin. Above right, Christmas carolers were making their rounds on Saturday night. After starting at Washington Square Park, they made [...]

  Some of the 25 people profiled in the new “Lower East Side Oral Histories” recently gathered for a book party at the Duo Multicultural Arts Center, at 62 E. Fourth St. Above, from left, Nina Howes (who did the interviews for the book), James Galuppo, Nilda Rivera, Jan Lee, Joe Preston, Rebecca Lepkoff, Frankie [...]

SantaCon revelers congregated throughout the city Saturday, including in Midtown, in these photos. They were cabbing it all over the place, and barhopping far and wide, with many seemingly shunning mass transit this year. While the annual event keeps growing, many residents and merchants are sick of it, saying they’re tired already of the “bad [...]

Smoke from a fire early Sunday evening in a building next door to Umbrella House, on Avenue C at Second St., emptied out the former squat. Matt, sitting with coat draped over him, waited outside until it was O.K. to re-enter.

A female pedestrian was struck by a Toyota S.U.V. while she was crossing Greene St. at Canal St. early last Friday evening, leaving her with a painful leg injury, apparently a fracture or break. Passersby came to her aid and comforted her, as a light mist fell, while awaiting the arrival of police and E.M.T.’s. [...]

Ten students from Chabad N.Y.U. brought boxes of potato pancakes, a.k.a. latkes, to share the holiday spirit with seniors at Caring Community at Greenwich House, at 20 Washington Square North, on Monday. The students sang a few Chanukah songs, served latkes with homemade applesauce to the seniors and then hung out and schmoozed. While fried latkes are a [...]

Fly Orr held up the bolt cutters before passing them to City Councilmember Rosie Mendez, who clipped the chain, which was made of duct-tape links. BY LINCOLN ANDERSON  |   After having to postpone its opening for a month due to flood damage from Superstorm Sandy, the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, at Avenue C near [...]