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...
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...
LES Women as Activists: The 1902 Kosher Meat Boycotts In 1902, immigrant Jewish housewives and mothers launched a campaign to protest the price of kosher meat — and created a...
from Village Preservation and LES Jewish Conservancy A panel discussion with Elissa Sampson, Joyce Mendelsohn, and Kate Pastor Celebrating Women’s History Month The lives and actions of Lillian Wald, Emma...
by Downtown Art A street musical / rock opera based on the 1902 Kosher Meat boycott led by Lower East Side women. The strike by Jewish immigrant women to protest...
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...
by Ryan Gilliam ‘The Uprising of the 20,000’ in 1909 was the largest strike by women that the U.S. had ever seen. The strikers, mostly young immigrant women in their...
Lower East Side Community Hero Thea Martinez is honored to be part of the Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES) Land Use and Public Housing Committee. Thea first became involved...
Lower East Side Community Hero photo by Whitney Browne Ayo Harrington is currently the co-chair of LES Ready! Ayo Harrington has been involved in social justice issues most of her...
“It took us 50 f—ing years but we made this community, this little community of Cooper Square, unlike any community in the world! Chelsea and Harlem and Brooklyn and Queens...