Lower East Side Community Hero Nominated by Lori Weissman / Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy    A true Urban Historian, with a voluminous knowledge of the area, Elissa earned her...

CORINNE JENNINGS LOWER EAST SIDE COMMUNITY HERO Nominated by Elissa Sampson Corinne Jennings co-founded Kenkeleba in 1974 with Joe Overstreet and Samuel C. Floyd to support African American culture.  Kenkeleba...

LOWER EAST SIDE COMMUNITY HEROES Ed Litvak and Traven Rice are the founders of the local website, The Lo-Down. Ed and Traven are Lower East Side residents who launched The...

LOWER EAST SIDE COMMUNITY HERO Joyce Mendelsohn is the author of The Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited: History and Guide to a Legendary Neighborhood. She is a granddaughter of...

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....

Lower East Side Community Hero nominated by Alejandro Epifanio, Loisaida, Inc Marlis was born in Berlin in 1943. She studied photography in Berlin and Paris before moving to New York...

Lower East Side Community Hero nominated by K Webster Kim was born and raised in the LES. She began her career in nonprofit as an intake coordinator and progressed to...

Lower East Side Community Hero nominated by John Blasco Shawn Garcia – District Leader in the Lower East Side (74AD) Born and raised in New York City in a Puerto...

Lower East Side Community Hero nominated by Ryan Gilliam, FABnyc & Downtown Art A native of Philadelphia, Debra came to NY to seek her fortune in the motion picture business...

LOWER EAST SIDE COMMUNITY HERO Nominated by Bob Holman, Bowery Arts & Science Steve Cannon was a New York City icon and an American writer and the founder of the cultural organization, A Gathering...