Photos from this evening's San Gennaro Feast

Photos from this evening's San Gennaro Feast: The mass at Most Precious Blood Church and the procession down Mulberry Street.

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LESHP founder, Eric Ferrara

Eric Ferrara is an award-winning American author, researcher, movie & television consultant and personality based in New York City. Writing about lesser-known and previously unknown New York City History, his books and articles are popular for their unique historical research.

Ferrara is founder and director of the Lower East Side History Project, an award-winning non-profit organization dedicated to researching, documenting and preserving the history of the greater Lower East Side of New York City. Ferrara is also founder of the former "Museum of the American Gangster" and "East Village Visitor Center" in New York City.

More at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Ferrara

Eric Ferrara being interviewed about Richard Kuklinski for Discovery Channel

Eric Ferrara filming a documentary about
the former Ravenite Social Club in Little Italy

Eric Ferrara with Seth Abrams at premiere of Great Gatsby at Lincoln Center.

Eric Ferrara w/ Meyer Lansky II and Phil Genovese
(Grandsons of Meyer Lansky and Vito Genovese)

Eric Ferrara with the cast of AMC's "Making of the Mob: New York"

Eric Ferrara dining with the nieces of Meyer Lansky at Sparks Steakhouse

Eric Ferrara with Great Gatsby director Baz Luhrmann

Eric Ferrara with friends at the Goodfellas 20th Anniversary event

Eric Ferrara lecturing at the New York Historical Society

Eric Ferrara on location with actor Vinny Vella in Little Italy

Eric Ferrara signing books at the Tenement Museum

Bowery loses another staple: King Glassware closes

King Glassware restaurant supply company closed after 81 years.

Dating back to 1933, King Glassware may have been the oldest surviving restaurant supply store on The Bowery. Just last week, neighborhood archivist Adam Woodward came across this 81 year old mainstay at 112 Bowery shuttered with "FOR RENT" signs hanging on the gates.

King's phone number is disconnected and its website down, leading us to believe the decades-old business is gone for good and not simply relocating.

Surviving two world wars, the Great Depression, recessions in the 1980s and 2000s, as well as an abundance of competition from the dozens of restaurant supply stores along the thoroughfare is no small feat. Back in 1995, co-owner Fred LaMay told the New York Times about competition from the rise of similar stores opening on The Bowery, and the pressure to sell out.

"There are 30 percent more restaurant suppliers than there were 10 or 15 years ago," LaMay said.

At a time when shop owners were enticed to sell their buildings at 30% or more above market rate, LaMay turned down all offers.

"We tell them we're not interested," he said. "We'll sell when we retire."

We've reached out to the building owners for an interview but have yet to hear back. If we get any more information in the future we'll update this article.