Lower East Side Community Hero Nominated by Andy Fontanez Jr + Friends and Colleagues Andy Fontanez (AKA PUPA) is born and raised on the Lower East Side growing up in...

Lower East Side Community Hero Special acknowledgement from the LES Community Hero Awards selection committee From The Cut: “When Camille Napoleon meets asylum seekers at Port Authority, she first carefully...

Lower East Side Community Hero Nominated by Aura Olavarria Jasmine Corchado is the new director of the Henry Street Settlement, Good Companions Older Adult Center. Jasmine is no stranger to...

Lower East Side Community Hero Special acknowledgement from the LES Community Hero Awards selection committee Power Malu is a pioneering Artist, Athlete, Activist born and raised on the Lower East...

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...

LOWER EAST SIDE COMMUNITY HERO Nominated by Elissa Sampson Corrinne Jennings arrived in New York City in the 1960s, ready to work as a Broadway Scene Designer. At a meeting...

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...