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...
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...
Lower East Side Community Hero nominated by K Webster Kim was born and raised in the LES. She began her career in nonprofit as an intake coordinator and progressed to...