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...

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...

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...

Margaret Yuen The Art of Storytelling by Think!Chinatown Margaret Yuen is a Chinese dancer and teacher in Manhattan’s Chinatown. She founded the Young Dancers of Chinatown in 1979 and the...

Artwork by: Jacqueline Tam / Curation & production by Yin Kong / Audio production by: / Rochelle Hoi-Yiu Kwan / Audio facilitation by: Nicolas Cadena / Video editing & animation...