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...
University Settlement partners with 40,000 New Yorkers on the Lower East Side and in Brooklyn every year to build on their strengths as they achieve healthy, stable, and remarkable lives....
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Part of The New York Memory Project coordinated and compiled by artist and interviewer Antígona González in collaboration with FABnyc and The People’s LES Notes from the Interviews “We talked...
Part of The New York Memory Project coordinated and compiled by artist and interviewer Antígona González in collaboration with FABnyc and The People’s LES Myra Seltzer was born and...
Part of The New York Memory Project coordinated and compiled by artist and interviewer Antígona González in collaboration with FABnyc and The People’s LES Juana Sud is an 83...
Part of The New York Memory Project coordinated and compiled by artist and interviewer Antígona González in collaboration with FABnyc and The People’s LES Notes from the Interviews: Interview...
A People’s LES Project with support from FABnyc & Downtown Art Project Coordinator and Lead Artist: Ro Garrido In April 2019, we began a series of oral history workshops in...
Lower East Side Community Hero Nominated by Deb Scher, Educational Alliance’s Manny Cantor Center photo by Whitney Browne Jose Ortiz is a volunteer at Senior Advocacy Leadership Team (SALT) at...