Neighborhood
Last Call: The Slow Erasure of the LES Dive Bar and the Culture It Built
The Lower East Side's most beloved dives aren't just losing leases — they're taking decades of downtown identity with them. We talked to the bartenders, the lifers, and the owners holding on by their fingernails to find out what's really happening to the neighborhood's soul. Spoiler: it's complicated, it's ugly, and it's not over yet.