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 Nominated by Sarah Batchu Sabura has been a resident of Lower East Side for two decades. She grew up in the South Bronx where she...
Lower East Side Community Hero Special acknowledgement from the LES Community Hero Awards selection committee Born and raised in the Jacob Riis Projects in the Lower East Side, Lilah Mejia...
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...
Bowery Alliance of Neighbors Windows on the Bowery is an historic signage project & book exploring the complex, multi-cultural history of NYC’s oldest street. Created by the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, which works to preserve...
Wesley Augustus Williams (1897-1984) was born in Harlem to Lucy Metrash and James Henry Williams, Chief of the Red Caps in Grand Central Terminal. He’d been inspired as a boy...
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...
Robert “Bob” Humber LOWER EAST SIDE COMMUNITY HERO Robert “Bob” Humber was born in Georgia on June 12, 1936. At the age of 6, he and his family relocated...