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 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...

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...

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...

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 /...

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

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....