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The Lower East Side has always been a place where people come to launch innovative ideas.

It may not be as easy to do today as in the past, but there’s no doubt the neighborhood continues to serve as a kind of creative laboratory. This spirit of innovation is reflected in several articles included in this month’s magazine. In our cover story, Alexander Olch describes his vision for reinvigorating the art house cinema for a new generation. From Grand Street Settlement, we hear about plans for a new cafe and community gathering place that will be run by a social enterprise company. And the guys behind the Lowline underground park proposal open a five-month-long technology lab, their most ambitious undertaking yet. Each of these projects carries a significant amount of peril as well as promise. That’s why all of them have been and will continue to be fascinating to cover. We hope you enjoy this month’s magazine. From all of us at The Lo-Down, we wish you an early Happy Thanksgiving.

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Cover Story

The Lower East Side’s new independent cinema

13 New Arrivals

Artists Equity, Nudie Jeans, Big Apple Grocery, Carolina Sarria, Rosai Ugolini Modern, Galerie Richard

Crossing 14 Essex Grand Street Settlement partners with Think Coffee

16 Neighborhood News

Essex Street Market management; gun-running on Chinatown buses; Sheldon Silver goes on trial

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On the cover: Jake Perlin, artistic director, and Alexander Olch stand outside the new Metrograph Theater on Ludlow Street.

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ew arts institutions aren’t born in New York every day, especially not in an overheated real estate market like the one now gripping the city.

So in late August, when Alexander Olch announced plans for a new independent cinema called Metrograph on the Lower East Side, people were more than a little intrigued.

In the weeks that followed, the Orchard Street tie designer and his team launched an all-out charm offensive throughout the neighborhood in support of a liquor license application to Community Board 3.

That campaign was ultimately successful Oct. 19, when the board’s liquor-licensing committee voted unanimously in support of the project.

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“screening is in progress.” The ushers will use a 1920s- second floor, will be overseen by Arthur Fournier, a era phone to tell projectionists whether the sound prestigious rare- and fine books dealer. The shop will and picture quality are up to standards. “It will be feature texts, screenplays and artifacts related to about the accumulation of little details,” Olch ex- filmmaking. plained, “to make a first-class type of experience” for Olch said he wants the theater to become both an the moviegoer. integral part of New York’s film community as well as The larger theater will have 175 seats the local community. He envisions it as a and include a balcony. A more intimate for directors to screen their “daily” “What we’re venue theater is planned to accommodate an scenes, to host press screenings and fullaudience of 50. Metrograph is investing trying to do,” fledged premieres. Metrograph is being in high-end 35mm film projectors, Olch said, set up as a place for producers and direcwhich, Olch said, will make the theater “is truly tors to hold meetings, and for writers to eligible to host special restored prints reinvigorate work on screenplays. “It will hopefully be and archive-quality prints. The cinema the theatera place where business is transacted,” will also be able to screen digital movies. going Olch said. As for the local community, he’s The artistic director will be Jake experience." met with staff at the Henry Street SettlePerlin, who founded a distribution ment about creating a mentoring procompany called The Film Desk and is gram for kids. There’s also talk about estabprogrammer at large at the Film Society of Lincoln lishing one or more film clubs.

Center. “I feel he is at the vanguard of a new generation All of these plans were somewhat complicated by of film programming in New York and, frankly, in the a liquor license application for a ground-floor cafe world,” said Olch. The plan is to show both new and a restaurant on the second level. Given the size of releases and old films. A book shop, located on the the facility and the riskiness of the project, some lo-

One day last month, we sat down with the determined local entrepreneur to talk about the ambitious proposal for a world-class art house cinema inside a former food supply warehouse at 7 Ludlow St. After a tour of the facility near Canal Street, which is still very much a construction site, Olch discussed his vision over a cool drink at a nearby cafe.

Although he has been designing high-end ties for more than a decade (they’re sold at places like Barneys and Bergdorf Goodman), Olch did not open his first permanent retail store until late 2013. He’s in the middle of moving the shop and production facility to a larger space a few doors from the original location at 14 Orchard St. Olch also lives in the neighborhood.

His apartment is situated just a few steps from the new theater on Ludlow Street. While best known around here as a fashion designer, Olch is also a filmmaker, whose most recent project, Windmill Movie (2009), was a biography of the filmmaker Richard P. Rogers, who was Olch’s professor at Harvard.

It has been a six-year quest to find the ideal location and to assemble the right creative team for the two-screen theater, restaurant and rare book shop.

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esting, as complicated, as challenging, as wonderful as making a film,” he explained.” Noting the complexity of opening an independent, for-profit theater in 2015, he added, “It requires the exact same attention to detail on all levels.”

“What we’re trying to do,” Olch said, “is truly reinvigorate the theater-going experience,” which, he observed, has not evolved in decades. “For me, the challenge is to create a space that evokes the glamour of the movie theaters that I went to when I was growing up in Manhattan, places like the Beekman, the Plaza… places that were very special to me as a little boy that are literally all gone. Those are the places where I first fell in love with movies.”

Olch said the only theaters comparable to Metrograph now in New York are the Film Forum, Anthology Film Archives and the cinemas at Lincoln Center and BAM. The idea on the Lower East Side is to create a special experience for everyone walking through the front doors. “It will be like a carefully crafted performance,” he said. “The overall feel will be more curated than anything you would find in a standard movie theater.”

In the vestibule outside the two theaters, there will be old-fashioned red bulbs alerting visitors that a

Photos Pages 6 & 7: A rendering of the new Metrograph Theater on Ludlow Street.

Page 8: The exterior of the new cinema as it looked late last month. The building formerly housed a food supply company.

This Page: Jake Perlin, Alexander Olch photo by Whitney Browne.

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cals were worried about the prospect that the theater might morph into a raucous night club.

The cafe will be called “The Commissary.”

Drawing on menus from the old MGM, United Artists and Paramount commissaries, the idea is to reimagine classic dishes from Hollywood’s heyday. “Everyone ate there,” Olch noted, from A-list movie stars to members of the crew, meaning the food was simple and straightforward, but also high quality. “That’s our inspiration,” he explained. There will also be a separate “writers menu,” featuring items you can eat with one hand (while continuing to peck away at your script on the other).

Olch pointed out that both the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at Lincoln Center and Alice Tully Hall have restaurants now. “Both have been instrumental in helping to create a much more vibrant atmosphere” at those institutions, he argued.

“The cafe and restaurant are really a way to create a complete experience,” offering a place for people to go after seeing films. Another inspiration, Olch said, is the Bowery Hotel lobby, a quiet place where guests can talk and relax. “We’re showing films, serious films that are meant to inspire conversation,” he said. “It’s a space designed specifically for that experience.”

By the time the community board held its hearing, the Metrograph team had already struck a deal with the SPaCE Block Association. After

three meetings with the local group, Metrograph agreed to end alcohol service on all nights by 2 a.m., two hours earlier than originally planned.

They also agreed to close windows facing Ludlow Street by 10 p.m. and make sure exhaust from the kitchen does not reach nearby apartments.

There were about 30 supporters on hand for the hearing. They included the prominent independent film director Deborah Granik (best known for Winter’s Bone), who told the committee it would be invaluable to have a new “non-corporate” independent theater in New York. The programming is “destined to be very thoughtful, she said, “a true gem for filmmakers who flock to New York to make their art.”

David Garza, executive director of Henry Street Settlement, also expressed enthusiastic support. “I have not met a more authentic partner” in recent years, said Garza. “Art is the oxygen a community needs to breathe,” he added. There was even testimony from a representative of the French Embassy, Sandrine Butteau of the Department of Cultural Affairs.

Following the hearing, Olch was obviously relieved, saying, “We were thrilled by the large turnout of support, the speakers who presented and the unanimous vote in favor by the committee. We’re excited and now even more eager for Metrograph to become a part of the community. Coming soon—in February!”

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ROSAI UGOLINI MODERN (48 Orchard St., near Broome Street, rosaiugolini.com) Over the summer, Bosi Contemporary closed its doors on Orchard Street and was quickly replaced by another art gallery. Balthazar Piero Rosai and Daniele Ugolini have opened a space dedicated to 20th- and 21st-century Italian art. The inaugural show features works from Emilio Cavallini, the Italian fashion designer. The exhibition is on view until Nov. 8. own space on Canal Street.

CAROLINA SARRIA (149 Ludlow St., near

Stanton Street, carolinasarria.com) A new boutique comes to a fashion-forward stretch of Ludlow Street, joining spots such as Assembly New York, Frankie, and Reformation. Carolina Sarria, a native of Colombia, describes her designs as “edgy, androgynous and dark.” Sarria came to New York, like so many others, to make a name for herself in the fashion industry. She launched her first line in 2011 and has never looked back.

BIG APPLE GROCERY (219 East Broadway, at Clinton Street) A year after closing its location at the corner of East Broadway and Montgomery streets, Big Apple Grocery has re-emerged a short distance away. The bodega is now up and running in the former Joon Cleaners storefront at East Broadway and Clinton streets. The original location was forced to close temporarily by a major renovation project undertaken by the new owners of 219 East Broadway. The face-lift took a lot longer than expected. The landlord is hoping to find a new tenant to pay $15,000 per month for the old bodega space, which has been combined with a former Chinese takeout restaurant.

GALERIE RICHARD (121 Orchard St., near

Delancey Street, galerierichard.com) Another Chelsea gallery has made the move to the Lower East Side. Galerie Richard had maintained a space on the West Side since 2011. Now it’s taken over a large storefront previously occupied by Sheherazade, the Middle Eastern and East Asian furniture store. Jean-Luc and Takako Richard first opened their gallery in France in 1989, where they continue to have a presence.

NUDIE JEANS (188 Bowery, near Spring Street, nudiejeans.com) The Swedish menswear brand says it wants your jeans to feel like a second skin. The company just opened its 21st worldwide store on the Bowery. Jeans run from about $165 to $375. There are also denim jackets, khakis, leather and wool coats, parkas and accessories

ARTISTS EQUITY (245 Broome St., near Ludlow Street, nyartistsequity.

org) In October, New York Artists Equity Association open its first show in a new gallery on Broome Street. The nonprofit group was founded in 1947 by a group of downtown New York’s art luminaries, including Edward Hopper, Louise Nevelson and Thomas Hart Benton. Artists Equity has been without a space to call its own for the past four years. The gallery was made possible thanks to a gift from the painters Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence.

The first exhibition, titled “2015:1947,” features eight artists who are displaying works inspired by Artists Equity founders. It runs through Nov. 14.

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Grand Street Settlement Plans Cafe with Think Coffee at Essex Crossing

by Ed Litvak Grand Street Settlement, the lead community partner in the big Essex Crossing project, has announced plans for an innovative cafe in partnership with Think Coffee and a new senior center.

Both facilities will be situated on Site 6 of Essex Crossing, located on the northeast corner of Clinton and Broome streets (the actual address is 175 Delancey St.) The 15-story building is also to include 100 apartments for low-income seniors and a 40,000-square-foot health center (likely run by NYU Langone Medical Center).

The cafe will take 2,500 square feet on the ground floor. It’s being designed as a community gathering space using a social enterprise model. Young adults from Grand Street Settlement and other local organizations will work in the restaurant and participate in a job training program. The profits will be funneled back into the settlement house’s community building initiatives.

Shortly after being appointed executive director of Grand Street Settlement in June, Robert Cordero reached out to Jason Scherr, who runs Think Coffee, a socially responsible chain with eight locations in New York City (including on the Bowery). He’s a Grand Street board member. Scherr was intrigued by 14 November 2015

the entrepreneurial approach in a nonprofit setting.

“He loved the idea that it will be a really structured job training program for teens and young adults who are having trouble cracking into that first job,” said Cordero in a recent interview.

“It’s a high-risk, potentially high-impact, high-reward proposition,” he added.

The plan is to use a proven social enterprise program called Catalyst Kitchens, a collaborative network “dedicated to empowering lives through job training.”

It will be run by Grand Street Settlement with involvement from local groups such as the Lower East Side Employment Network. Cordero has talked with the heads of other LES settlement houses about linking the cafe with their teen and job placement programs.

The full Think Coffee menu, including sandwiches, soups and breakfast offerings, will be available.

Items will be market price with discounts for building residents and members of the senior center. Cordero said he’s had conversations with executives at the Tenement Museum and Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center about scheduling a robust arts program within the cafe. The space will be divided so sections can be blocked off for private rentals while the cafe continues to operate.

Photos, left: A rendering of the Think Coffee cafe, planned by Grand Street Settlement to be located at Essex Crossing. This page, right: A rendering of Essex Crossing Site 6. Bottom: A rendering of the planned Senior Center, also at Site 6.

L+M Development, one of three Essex Crossing partners, was enthusiastic about the concept, Cordero said, and agreed to “build a top-notch” cafe space for the community. He hopes local residents, including Lower East Side artists, will become involved in the programming. Cordero added, “Anyone in the community can walk into the cafe and support the cause of Grand Street Settlement (simply by buying a cup of coffee).”

The settlement house’s other initiative on Site 6 is a 10,500-square-foot senior center located on the fourth floor. It includes a large, versatile community room for dining, activities and meetings.

There are also two smaller rooms meant for support groups, computer users and extracurricular activities, such as dance classes.

The center will share an outdoor space with building residents. Cordero said a health care provider would be brought on to offer geriatric services.

The new facility will allow Grand Street Settlement to alleviate a serious crowding problem at its main Lower East Side facility at 80 Pitt St. (alongside the Gompers Houses). Right now, it’s shared by the organization’s early childhood, young adult and senior programs. In 2018, when the Essex Crossing building is scheduled to open, all senior services will be relocated.

At the same time, Grand Street will be embarking on a $15 million renovation of 80 Pitt St., a building constructed in collaboration with the

New York City Housing Authority in the 1970s.

The group has already raised $5 million to pay for deferred maintenance projects (mostly improving mechanical systems). The organization is launching a capital campaign to raise another $10 million.

One part of the project includes relocating the building entrance from Rivington Street to Pitt Street. It became necessary when Masaryk Towers, which controls the Rivington Street passageway, decided to close off the area. (It’s going to be putting up a gate.

Cordero said the Essex Crossing project was put on hold in the past year as his predecessor, Margarita Rosa, handed over the leadership reins.

But now the organization is moving quickly to, literally, build for the future. Grand Street maintains a robust presence on the Lower East Side, but in recent years it has been expanding into other neighborhoods as well. Half of its programs are now based in Brooklyn.

The organization is gearing up for its 100thanniversary celebration. It has just unveiled a new website (grandsettlement.org), which includes a page dedicated to Essex Crossing.

The developers are working on lining up financing for Site 6. When it’s secured, probably by the middle of this month, construction will begin on the parcel. The overall project includes 1,000 apartments and 850,000 square feet of commercial space on nine lots near the Williamsburg Bridge. n

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essex crossing

Construction crews are now working on three of the four sites included in the initial phase of Essex Crossing. The large residential and commercial project on the Seward Park urban renewal site will eventually add one thousand apartments, new retail and community facilities to nine parcels near the Williamsburg Bridge. In the past few weeks, developers began foundation work on Site 1, located at Ludlow and Broome streets. If you’re around the neighborhood during the day, you’ve no doubt heard the pile-driving operation. At a community meeting last month, a spokesman said the noisiest stages of construction would last about two more months. It will take a total of about 10 months before the foundations are finished. Work on Site 6, at Clinton and Broome streets, is expected to start by the middle of this month. Developers say there have been conversations with the Children’s Museum about relocating to Essex Crossing, but those talks are only preliminary.

Vendors want new management at the Essex Street Market. small business

Community Board 3 last month endorsed a proposal from the Vendor Association at the Essex Street Market for a change in management. The 75-year-old facility is operated by the city’s Economic Development Corp (EDC), which has come under fire from vendors in the past year. Several businesses have closed, citing diminished foot traffic since the city’s high-profile announcement that the market would be relocated as part of the Essex Crossing project in 2018. The vendors want the city to create an Essex Street Market Preservation and Development Corp. to “provide day-to-day management of market operations” and to “oversee marketing, promotions, events and programming through a contract with the LES Business Improvement District.” They called for implementation of the new structure by June 30 of next year. The EDC has not publicly weighed in on the proposal. Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer told The Lo-Down, “The Essex Street Market is vital to this neighborhood, and it’s clear that its management requires the kind of individualized, hands-on attention that an external nonprofit will be better equipped to provide than EDC.” crime

There’s a Chinatown connection in a major Brooklyn crime bust. The district attorney announced indictments of seven suspects for allegedly running guns from Southern states to New York City via Chinatown buses. Authorities called Michael Bassier of Brooklyn the ringleader, saying he sold more than 100 guns to undercover cops. In a recorded phone conversation, Bassier can be heard saying, “Listen, I’m walking through Manhattan, right? I’ve got two Mac 10s on me, an SK assault rifle and four handguns and I’m walking through New York.” According to a press release from the DA’s office, Bassier allegedly “made 12 trips to Atlanta, Georgia, using Chinatown buses for transportation, including the Bus2NYC and other Chinatown bus lines.” Bus2NYC has an office at 103 Canal St. Bassier and the other defendants were charged in a 541-count indictment with conspiracy, criminal possession of a weapon, criminal sale of a firearm and other charges.

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A new building at 135 Bowery has been sold for $16.2 million to Caspi Development and RWN Real Estate Partners, two firms intent on turning the Bowery into a tech startup corridor. Caspi already owns 161 Bowery, an office building for technology companies. In 2011, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to designate a 194-year-old Federal row house at 135 Bowery. While council member Chin initially supported the designation, she changed her mind after speaking with executives at First American International Bank, the property owner.

The City Council then overturned the Landmark Commission’s decision. The row house was later demolished, an eight-story, 17,000 squarefoot building erected in its place. Last year, First American’s Patrick Lau told The Lo-Down that the new owner would be required to set aside the third floor for use as a community facility, with rents set 20 percent below market prices in perpetuity. This provision is supposed to be written into the deed, which has not yet showed up in public records.

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Police say a 19-year-old man was shot and killed Sept. 26 at the Alfred E. Smith Houses.

The victim, Nathaniel Szeto, was found in the lobby of a building at 10 Catherine Slip, near Water Street, at about 5:45 a.m. The teenager was rushed to New York Downtown Hospital, where he later died. Szeto lived in the building and worked as a legal assistant. Police have not released a motive for the killing and had not made any arrests at press time. The shooting happened in the 5th Precinct, where there had not been any murders this year.

Prosecutors and defense lawyers in Assemblyman Sheldon Silver’s federal corruption case made final preparations ahead of the scheduled start of the Nov. 2 trial. In a flurry of court filings and hearings, they fought over evidence to be presented by the U.S. attorney, who accuses the longtime Lower East Side lawmaker of illegally pocketing $4 million. Judge Valerie Caproni ruled that prosecutors may tell jurors about $200,000 in campaign donations made to Silver by Glenwood Management. The indictment alleged that the assemblyman collected illegitimate legal fees after steering the real estate conglomerate to Goldberg & Iryami, a law firm specializing in property tax cases. Silver’s legal team argued that the political donations are irrelevant to the case, but the judge disagreed. Prosecutors expect their case to last about a month. Silver told Politico New York he has no Assemblyman intention of cutting a deal before the trial. “We’re ready,” he said. “We will be ready, Sheldon Silver and I believe in court, we will be successful.”

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arts watch MOCA Exhibition Celebrates the Legacy of Chinatown’s Most Prolific Architect

Authority, and became the go-to building designer in Chinatown. Lee’s distinctive style combined Art Deco and Modernism with Chinese design flourishes. He died in 1968.

Culhane has been cataloging Lee’s work throughout the neighborhood, with help from his family, which shared a large number of drawings and documents for the project. Noteworthy sites include the On Leong Tong/Chinese Merchants Building (83-85 Mott St.; see drawing), the Kimlau Memorial (at Bowery and East Broadway) and the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association Building (60 Mott St.) During a recent press preview at the museum, we asked Culhane about Poy Gum Lee’s lasting legacy in Chinatown and what she hopes visitors will take away from the exhibition. “I am hoping that this is a way for people to recognize that there is tremendous value in the architecture in Chinatown that may go unrecognized because it’s misunderstood,” she explained.

While some of Lee’s buildings are widely admired, others are easily overlooked. “There’s so much going on in Chinatown that… it can be hard sometimes to make out that there is some sense of place there.

“We have examples in Chinatown ,” she added, “of an internationally regarded architect from

by Ed Litvak When visitors walk through Chinatown’s winding streets, they are bombarded with all sorts of sights, sounds and aromas. Even if you’ve lived in the neighborhood your entire life, sensory overload can set in pretty easily. For this reason, most people do not associate Chinatown with historically significant architecture. Kerri Culhane’s new exhibition at the Museum of Chinese in America, however, could begin to change that perception.

The show is called Chinese Style: Rediscovering the Architecture of Poy Gum Lee (1923-1968). It is made up of more than 80 artifacts, including photos, architectural drawings and blueprints.

The exhibition is on view until the end of January, along with another project, Sub-Urbanisms: Casino Urbanization, Chinatowns and the Contested American Landscape.

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more than a decade documenting important sections of the Lower East Side, including the Bowery, Little Italy and Two Bridges. She’s also associate director of the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council. A few years ago, in preparing an application for the Chinatown and Little Italy Historic District, she became intrigued by the works of Poy Gum Lee. His name appeared repeatedly in Department of Buildings permits until the 1950s. She was curious to know his story. Culhane’s search for answers took her on a three-year exploration covering two continents.

Lee was born on Mott Street in 1900 and attended the Pratt Institute, M.I.T. and Columbia. In 1923, he went back to China with his family, becoming a prolific and sought-after architect. During World War II, Lee fled China and returned to New York. He worked for the New York City Housing 19

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an extremely prolific practice in China who brought ideas of Chinese architecture… to Chinatown.” The exhibition tells the story of the Chinese-American experience through the eyes of a messenger (Lee) who was influenced by two very different cultures.

Remarkably, not a single one of Lee’s Chinatown buildings is a New York City landmark. Generally speaking, neighborhood property owners are strongly opposed to landmarking. In preparing the successful nomination for the National Register, Culhane said, “the idea I had was to really celebrate the histories of these buildings so that the value is seen in what they represent. That’s still my goal… I hope the value is recognized so that they are preserved. I think they are important in Chinatown, as landmarks, as symbols, and I hope that’s reflected in the show.” ■ The Museum of Chinese in America is located at 215 Centre St. More information about the exhibition is available at moca.nyc.org.

Photos, Page 11: A 1950s photo of Poy Gum Lee at his drafting table This page, left: Drawing of the granite memorial at Kim Lau Square. Center: A portrait of Poy Gum Lee in his early professional years. Right: The On Leong Tong/Chinese Merchants Building

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Tiger Tiger (On the Nature of Violence) at Dixon Place Playwright

Jessica Almasy has created this new production based on real-life events and partially inspired by her own experiences. In the story, three boys walk into a zoo in San Francisco, two walk out in handcuffs and a tiger is on the loose, setting off a media frenzy.

This play about surviving and coping with violence is not appropriate for children. 161a Chrystie St., $18, dixonplace.org.

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award-winning playwright and actor comes home to the Lower East Side for the world premiere of her experimental production under the auspices of the Epic Theatre Ensemble. In Pike St., Sun tells the story of a struggling family, living in the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge and preparing to ride out the next big storm. Unable to move her teenage daughter, Candace, whose mysterious aneurysm has rendered her unable to move or breathe on her own, mother Evelyn plans for more than just survival. As the storm approaches, she fights for healing and redemption. It’s Sun’s first solo show since the Obie-winning play No Child. She got her start at Abrons, where she took her first acting class.

Through Dec. 6, 466 Grand St., 8 p.m., $30, abronsartscenter.org.

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First Saturday for Families at the New Museum:

In conjunction with the ongoing exhibition Jim Shaw: The End Is Here, there will be a family workshop based on two of the artist’s most well-known projects. In “Dream Drawings” (1992–99) and “Dream Objects” (1994– present), Shaw translates his dreams into surreal works of art. During the workshop, families will work collaboratively to translate their own dreams into poetic lines, then drawings and, finally, fantastical sculptures. 235 Bowery, 10 a.m.-noon, Free, newmuseum.org.

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2015 La MaMa International Puppert Series: Puppetry from the U.S.,

Japan, Belgium and Colombia will be featured at this biennial festival Leading puppet artists taking part include Heather Henson, Ty Defoe, Tom Lee, Koryu Nishikawa V, Loco7 Dance Puppet Theatre Company and Maiko Kikuchi. Continues thru Nov. 29.Visit lamama.org for details

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The Eyal Vilner Big Band at Museum at Eldridge Street:

Seventeen musicians make up this ensemble, led by Tel Aviv-born, New York-educated musician Eyal Vilner. The band has collaborated with big time jazz legends such as Jimmy Heath and Jimmy Owens. They’ll be performing Vilner’s new arrangements of jazz classics as well as his original compositions. 12 Eldridge St., 3 p.m., $20, eldridgestreet.org.

Nilaja Sun’s Pike St. at Abrons Arts Center: The

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Okkervil River at Bowery Ballroom: The Austin, Texas-based indie

band Okkervil River is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its seminal release, Black Sheep Boy, with a new deluxe 3-LP set. The band will make a stop at Bowery Ballroom this month for three shows beginning on Monday, Nov. 23. Loosely based on the life of singer-songwriter Tim Hardin, who died of a heroin overdose at the age of 39, Black Sheep Boy received immediate critical acclaim upon its release. 6 Delancey St., 9 p.m., $25, boweryballroom.com.

The American Dream at the Tenement Museum: In the museum’s

regular Tenement Talks series, panelists discuss the present-day role of immigrant workers in New York City. Journalists Sarah Maslin Nir, who exposed the world of nail salon workers in The New York Times, and Lauren Hilgers, who revealed the inner workings of Chinese restaurant workers network in The New Yorker share the stage with former New York Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse, who moderates the conversation. 103 Orchard St., 6:3p p.m., free, tenement.org.

Fri.

Wallace Roney at Joe’s Pub: The

great trumpeter Wallace Roney­—who trained under Miles Davis­­—will take the stage at Joe’s Pub in support of his new album. He will debut music from his new album, Powerhouse (Chesky Records). Buster Williams (bass) and Lenny White (drums) will join Roney for this performance. 425 Lafayette St., 7:30 p.m., $20, publictheater.org.

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Dimes, the California-inspired cafe, was such a hit that the health-conscious spot made a move to a larger space on Canal Street a few months ago. Now the original storefront has been reborn as the Dimes Deli, a takeout operation. You can carry orders away or grab a table and eat your purchases on the spot. At breakfast time, Dimes’ popular akai bowls are available, as well as an indulgent egg sandwich with cheddar, avocado and jalapeno. There’s a selection of salads and sandwiches, along with rotisserie chickens and the cafe’s famous smoothies. A grocery will be opening in a neighboring space soon, and delivery service is in the works. Hours are 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. 143 Division St., dimesnyc.com.

Pizza Beach, the latest restaurant from the prolific Martignetti brothers (Brinkley’s, The East Pole, etc.) opened last month on Orchard Street. A version of the surf shack-themed spot has been operating on the Upper East Side for the past couple of years. The 2,500-square-foot space was formerly home to the Derby. It’s across the street from one of the Lower East Side’s most boisterous watering holes, Hair of the Dog, and Rosario’s, the 22 November 2015

beloved slice joint. A plain margherita pie will cost you $15, or you can try a few more inventive options such as roast pear and taleggio ($17), lamb marquez with Oaxaca cheese ($20) or pineapple and speck ($20). Entrees include dishes like grilled black sea bass ($26), fish tacos ($18) and papperdelle with pork ragu ($19). There’s a full cocktail menu.

167 Orchard St., pizzabeachclub.com.

Kitty’s-a-Go-Go is a new takeout spot on Chrystie Street. It’s an offshoot of Kitty’s Canteen, the jazz bar and Jewish soul food spot at 9 Stanton St. Richard Kimmel of The Box nightclub opened the restaurant last year (Snoop Dogg is a partner).

The takeout shop’s offerings include Black Cat Matzo Ball Soup, served with mustard greens and bisgels (bicuits shaped like bagels). You can also pick up matzo-meal fried chicken, potato latkes, a pastrami reuben and Roumanian steak. The recipes are inspired by Kimmel’s grandmother, who worked for a talent agency that represented jazz musicians. The shop is open starting at noon until late at night. 11 Stanton St., kittysagogo.com.

Kopitiam, a Malaysian coffee house, has opened on Canal Street. Owner Kyo Pang specializes in Baba Nyonya cuisine, traditional delicacies passed on from her grandmother. You may have sampled some of her delicate offerings at the Hester Street Fair. There’s a selection of Malaysian coffees and teas, as well as sweet and savory food items.The cafe opens at 8:30 a.m. and closes at 9 p.m. daily.

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The Comfort, a short-lived restaurant at 399 Grand St., held an auction Oct. 19 to dispose of the contents of the shuttered establishment.

During the summer, the diner-turned- “restaurant and bar” abruptly closed. A sign on the door advised customers that it would reopen ”after Labor Day.” Owner Ira Freehof said at the time that he hoped to relaunch the business with an entirely new menu. That, of course, never occurred. According to Amodeo Auctions, everything was up for grabs, including two stoves, refrigerators, beer coolers, dining tables, bar stools and dishware. At press time, the Seward Park Cooperative—the Comfort’s landlord—had not started an active search for a new tenant because there was an ongoing legal case. The restaurant was open for nine months and struggled to find a following in the face of service problems and constantly changing personnel. The cooperative also went through eviction proceedings against the previous tenant, Noah’s Ark Deli.

Remember the phrase, “Stay classy, San Diego” from Will Ferrell’s cinematic masterpiece, Anchorman?

Well, it’s the inspiration for a new bar devoted to the comedian on Rivington Street.

Stay Classy New York features cocktails named after lines from Ferrell’s films. Options include: Did We Just Become Best Friends (two shots to share with your buddy), Glass Case of Emotion (muddled rosemary and peach, whiskey, lemon juice, simple syrup) and We’re Going Streaking (“adult Kool-Aid” with Absolut Mandarin, peach schnapps, triple sec, and a slew of fruit juices). “[We thought] if we’re going to spend all the money that we have, at least we should do something we think is really funny and ridiculous so that we never feel like we got screwed or wasted our time,” co-owner Zach Neil told the Daily News. 174 Rivington St., stayclassynewyork.com

Pearl & Ash has a new chef and a new look. The creative Bowery restaurant won two stars from The New York Times in 2013, when the kitchen was being run by Richard Kuo. He has now been replaced by Trae Basore, who was previously executive sous chef at Colicchio & Sons. The new menu includes items such as chicken liver and foie gras with Concord grape and a fried egg; Wagyu beef tartare with radishes, pomegranate, and broccoli; and brisket with sunchokes, horseradish and black garlic. In early October, the restaurant closed for a dining room makeover. 220 Bowery, pearlandash.com.

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The Lowline Lab Opens in a Former Building of the Essex Street Market

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r o w i n g strawberries and minipineapples on the Lower East Side in the dead of winter? That’s exactly what’s being attempted in a former building of the Essex Street Market by the team behind the proposed Lowline underground park. The Lowline Lab, a fivemonth public exhibition, opened at 140 Essex St. last month. It’s part of a larger campaign to convince city and state officials to finally approve plans for a 60,000-square-foot green oasis

lab through a successful Kickstarter campaign that raised $220,000.

Since 2011, the team has been trying to coax the MTA, which controls the former trolley space, to give it access. The lab is meant to be an important step in turning the dream into reality. “I hope this demonstrates to everyone that the technology is fully sound,” co-founder Dan Barasch told The Lo-Down.

“Our core political goal right now is to engage with the mayor’s office and the MTA to develop a really clear pathway for transitioning the site from MTA jurisdiction to a public amenity. I’m hoping this will be one of the most important steps in engaging with the right city and state stakeholders to enable that process to move forward.”

The Lowline Lab will be open weekends from noon-6 p.m. until March. Admission is free.

Photos, above: Visitors strolling through the Lowline Lab view the many varieties of plants inside. Below: James Ramsey's technology channels sunlight into the otherwise-dark Lowline space from the building's rooftop.

I hope this demonstrates to everyone that the

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in the old Delancey Street trolley station.

Inside the Lowline Lab, there are 3,500 plants, carefully chosen by a team from the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens and landscape architectural firm Mathews Nielsen. The idea is to test technology Lowline co-founder James Ramsey has developed to channel sunlight from rooftop collectors into the garden.

The team will be observing all of the different species to determine which plants are best suited for the environment.

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Pies to slam a burger. Yin/yang makes everyone happy. Also, everything at Ni Japanese Deli in the Essex Market. The udon soup is totally bananas.

Also the roast pork at La Isla on Delancey and Pitt!

They run out/don't make it a lot, but it's always insane when I can get it.

Favorite place for a special night?

Mission Chinese continuously brings it. The beef cheek/beet dish and weirdo spicy kaffir lime coconut cocktail is my fantasy dinner. The basement at Bacaro always feels like an awesome, romantic war room.

How have you seen the neighborhood change?

Sure, lots of things have changed, and super quickly. Thank GOD that incredible bodega on Canal and Orchard has stayed the same. So much shelf space for art mags! What's the economy on art mags?! I have no idea, but I love that that place exists.

Is there a new arrival you love?

Duhhh—JFK, the kitchen supply store on Canal and Orchard, ’cause I don't take it for granted that we have a kitchen supply store less than a block away. And they're nice and not expensive. If they could start producing and carrying our craftsmanmade custom donut cutters I would never com-

plain about anything ever again. Also Coming Soon, ’cause it's awesome and the owner convinced me to buy a fully X-rated scene in a geode for my husband for our anniversary and I haven't regretted it once.

What drives you crazy (if anything) about the neighborhood?

That there's no elevator at the JMZ stop! Is that an annoying the-world-should-bend-itself-aroundpeople-with-strollers kind of gripe? Probably! It's the thing on the Lower East Side that has most consistently made me frustrated/tired/mad, but also isn't the biggest deal, so maybe that just means living on the Lower East Side isn't that crazy-making! Also, while I'm putting in MTA requests, I live kinda far east under the Williamsburg Bridge, so if someone could build some stairs up to the walkway from Columbia Street it would be a game changer.

What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever seen on the LES? Some weird shit goes down at the McDonalds on Essex and Delancey, my toddler's (direct quote) favorite restaurant.

Who’s the best neighborhood character you’ve met and why?

That lamb that came into Pies last winter for sure!

Photo by Alex M. Smith For our regular feature spotlighting the people who live and work on the Lower East Side, we talked with LES resident, Pies ’n’ Thighs co-owner and baker-in-chief, Sarah Sanneh.

How long have you lived on the LES? I lived on Division Street, just over the border in Chinatown, for five years and now on the “Lower East Side proper” for two years.

Why did you move here?

I got priced out of Williamsburg! And I found a fifth-floor walk-up in Chinatown with a private roof and an incredible view of the Manhattan Bridge for dirt cheap.

What do you do?

I own Pies ’n’ Thighs! I was a pastry chef before Pies and am still a fill-in baker and full-time donut eater.

We opened Pies ’n’ Thighs here [after opening the first location in Williamsburg in 2006] because the triangle Division makes with Canal and Orchard is so beautiful and feels like the West Village in layout, but with all sorts of weirdo people and businesses on it! It's such a mish-mosh: a skate shop, a grilled meat store, the funeral home next to us, Dimes, the TV repair guy who can fix anything, a massage parlor, a fancy bodega (and us!).

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Tell us about your apartment—the good, the bad and the ugly.

The good: it's big for a small family and the ceilings are high. The bad: The walls are thin and we live below a totally lovely family of eight. When I hear them playing jacks (at least it sounds like jacks) I just remember how much I love them. The ugly: it's on the ground floor looking over a service ramp

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I LOVE Joy's Flowers. I love that she works in her own flower shop like she's in an adorable French movie and I love that she takes the summer off to travel like a French person in real life (she's not French). Someday I will take her up on her offer to plant/replant the planters in front of the restaurant because I am EXCELLENT at killing plants. I really want her to be a life coach though, because I think she's got it figured out.

Favorite cheap eats?

Is El Rey cheap eats? Yeah, right? Anyway I need to figure out a way to incorporate El Rey into my answers because I love it so much. I love Dimes too.

In my mind they're our healthy alter ego. Sometimes I need a chia pudding and nothing else will do, and I love seeing the Dimes staff come into

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