LOWER EAST SIDE COMMUNITY HERO Special Acknowledgement Neighbors to Save Rivington House The 2017 LES Community Hero Awards presented a special acknowledgement for “Neighbors to Save Rivington House” for their...

Oral History Collection Village Preservation Village Preservation has an extensive collection of oral histories – many of them feature folks from the East Village and Loisaida area.  The collection is...

The Art of Storytelling in Chinatown: Behind the Stories Oral History by Think! Chinatown In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we brought back our heartwarming Chinatown animated shorts...

Produced by Think!Chinatown / Featuring Jan Lee and Amy Chin / Audio produced by / Rochelle Hoi-Yiu Kwan / Audio facilitated by Nicolas Cadena / Audio mixed by Jarrett Floyd...

W.O.W. Project The W.O.W. Project’s mission is to sustain ownership over Chinatown’s future by growing, protecting and preserving Chinatown’s creative culture through arts, culture and activism. The W.O.W. Project is...

Lower East Side Community Hero nominated by Andrea Gordillo Frank Avila-Goldman proudly joins a long list of lower east side community advocates fighting for subsidized housing residents on the waterfront....

  As a living history of urban activism, the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) chronicles the East Village community’s history of grassroots action. It celebrates the local activists who...

  GOLES (Good Old Lower East Side) is a neighborhood housing and preservation organization that has served the Lower East Side of Manhattan since 1977. We’re dedicated to tenants’ rights,...

from Loisaida, Inc. Loisiada Inc. focuses on the Young Lords’ founding and impact in the Lower East Side—displaying rarely seen photographs, posters, and audio and video recordings of live performances. ...

by Ryan Gilliam ‘The Uprising of the 20,000’ in 1909 was the largest strike by women that the U.S. had ever seen.  The strikers, mostly young immigrant women in their...