F to Delancey Street, walk one block south
The Parking Lot at Ludlow and Broome Streets has been an island of adventure and creativity for The Drilling Company and its Lower East Side audiences. The scruffy urban acre, which has been home to Shakespeare productions for two decades, is scheduled to be swallowed up as the long-vacant Seward Park Urban Renewal Area gives way to Essex Crossing, a giant mixed-used development, capping a half century of “progress” since the city laid the groundwork for the megaproject by demolishing the tenement homes of 1,800 Lower East Side families.
