On the corner of 13th Street and 2nd Avenue in the East Village lises a non-descript brick building, with an incredible out-of-place rooftop cottage. Now, it is available for rent for just…
The East Village's Hearth serves modern American cuisine from a James Beard award winning chef, Marco Canora. You may also know chef Canora as the creator of Brodo and the bone-broth…
Pork Bun noun: a Chinese snack consisting of steamed or baked bread dough filled with barbecued pork. While walking through the East Village, one can find a slew of restaurants of different…
Tim Ho Wan, a dim sum chain that is the world's cheapest Michelin-starred restaurant, is coming to Manhattan this September, the first location in the United States. The restaurant's…
For many decade, the area we now call the East Village was known to locals as the Lower East Side. I know at least one long time resident who still claims to live in the LES, despite being…
The Lively Morgue is a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the…
The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP) recently created this great map collecting all of the historic locations of civil rights and social justice protests,…
If you missed out last year, the bucolic rooftop cottage on 13th Street and 3rd Avenue is back and available for rent at just $19,000 per month. That may sound like a lot, but it's not too…
The East Village has no shortage of Japanese eateries, but Hi-Collar stands out in its elegance and its particular genre of Japanese culture. Hi-Collar is a kissaten, a café serving fancy…
With new modern and trendy restaurants popping up every day in the East Village, finding a good, cheap lunch is not always easy. Luckily one bodega has been serving inexpensive, delicious…
