Elie Perler

The Seward Park High School cheerleading squad is headed to the national stage, making history in the process. The team qualified for the nationals – the highest level in high school cheerleading – about two weeks ago. Teams across the country will compete in Orlando next month. And it&#…

Grocery delivery apps are scooping up vacant commercial space across the city. At least two have already spawned on the Lower East Side, mere blocks from one another on the south side of Delancey. Gorillas, a leader in the delivery app sphere, took over the recently renovated 294 Grand Street. (Form…

One of the more notorious zombie developments on the Lower East Side is completely reanimated. The superstructure at 206 Delancey Street is officially topped out at twelve stories, signaling a major milestone for a development under construction for nearly a decade. The forever-stalled site was a ba…

Demolition of East River Park continues unhindered, and in plain view of the public. The latest big job was the destruction of the historic East River Amphitheater. The bulldozers began uprooting the bench seating on Tuesday and continue apace. By yesterday evening, the seating area itself was rubbl…

The chainsaws are silent in East River Park, as advocates yesterday secured a stay that blocks demolition as part of the city’s $1.45 billion coastal resiliency project. Judge Rowan Wilson of the state’s Court of Appeals granted the stay on the reversal of a restraining order against the work …

A food delivery worker on the job was slashed across the face Sunday evening while in the elevator of a luxury condo building on Ridge Street, according to police. The unidentified victim, a 29-year-old man, had been in the elevator of 78 Ridge Street (Ridge Street Residences nee River Ridge Condo) …

A vegan brewery and restaurant is poised to open on the Bowery, taking the place of the failed, and since fallow, Paulaner Brauhaus. Indeed, as previously reported, Dallas-based Belse is on board to take over 265-267 Bowery. The relative newcomer – which began life last February – will go eve…