After a three-year legal struggle, supporters of the Lower East Side’s CHARAS/ El Bohio Cultural and Community Center may finally face eviction this morning, Monday. On Friday, a city sheriff posted a ...

By July 31, the last day CHARAS was allowed to stay in the building, two appeals courts had refused to stay the judge's eviction order. After 22 years, the institution ran out of legal options.

Christmas did not come for Charas/El Bohio this past year. On December 18, Civil Court Judge Saralee Evans denied the East Village cultural and community center a second stay of eviction from the ...