BY SAM SPOKONY    |  A grassroots fundraising Web site started by an East Village woman has become a surprisingly powerful tool in helping her neighborhood recover from Hurricane Sandy, raising more than $9,000 in only five days. Jenny Adams, 32, saw firsthand the storm’s unprecedented flooding from her apartment on E. Eighth St., between [...]

BY SAM SPOKONY  |  Around a hundred Lower East Side residents gathered with community leaders and politicians on Wednesday to rally against the impending closure of a Pathmark supermarket, which would pave the way for a largely unwelcome, upscale residential development. “This community is stunned that we will very soon be deprived of a very [...]

BY JEFFERSON SIEGEL  |  A small parcel of land on Stanton St. that has stood vacant for more than 30 years has the potential to become a battleground between garden activists and developers. As gentrification continues apace on the Lower East Side, last Sunday a group of neighbors and activists decided to push back. Recently, [...]

BY LORENZO LIGATO  |  When I opened the door of the redbrick building at 155 Mulberry St., a small chorus of voices was filling the room, chanting in unison, “Viva L’Italia!” A young woman holding a wooden tambourine with pairs of tiny metal jingles was surrounded by a cluster of children who vivaciously alternated Italian [...]

BY ALBERT AMATEAU  |  The new owner of an 1824 Federal Period house on Spring St. has applied for a demolition permit, prompting the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation to ratchet up its demands for a South Village Historic District. The demolition application for the vacant four-story building at 186 Spring St. near Thompson [...]