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    The People's LES
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    • LES History Month
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      The People's LES
      The People's LES
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      • LES History Month
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        Elissa Sampson
        Elissa Sampson
        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...
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        Neighbors to Save Rivington House
        Neighbors to Save Rivington House
        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...
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        Robert “Bob” Humber
        Robert “Bob” Humber
        Robert “Bob” Humber LOWER EAST SIDE COMMUNITY HERO Excerpt from the Tenement Museum’s profile of Bob Robert Humber was born in Georgia, USA on June 12, 1936 to a Panamanian...
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        Ed Litvak and Traven Rice (The Lo-Down)
        Ed Litvak and Traven Rice (The Lo-Down)
        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...
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        Joyce Mendelsohn
        Joyce Mendelsohn
        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...
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        Oral History Collection:  Village Preservation
        Oral History Collection: Village Preservation
        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...
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        Margaret Yuen – from Think!Chinatown
        Margaret Yuen – from Think!Chinatown
        Produced by Think!Chinatown / Featuring Margaret Yuen and Amy Chin / Audio produced by Rochelle Hoi-Yiu Kwan / Audio facilitated by Nicolas Cadena / Audio mixed by Jarrett Floyd /...
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        Nancy Sing-Bock – from Think!Chinatown
        Nancy Sing-Bock – from Think!Chinatown
        Artwork by: Jacqueline Tam / Curation & production by Yin Kong / Audio production by: / Rochelle Hoi-Yiu Kwan / Audio facilitation by: Nicolas Cadena / Video editing & animation...
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        2022 Lower East Side Community Heroes
        2022 Lower East Side Community Heroes
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        Frank Avila-Goldman
        Frank Avila-Goldman
        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....
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