Executive Producer: Yin Kong / Producer, Videographer, and Editor: Hai-Li Kong / Producer and Translator: Alice Liu / Advising Creative Producers: Aaron Reiss / Shahbano Farid. Thank you to: Eastern...

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 K Webster Kim was born and raised in the LES. She began her career in nonprofit as an intake coordinator and progressed to...

www.fabnyc.org About FABnyc is a team of  artists and organizers working to preserve, sustain, and grow the cultural vibrancy of the Lower East Side neighborhood. FABnyc was founded in 2001...

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...

from Five Boro Story Project in collaboration with Clinton Community Garden   ABOUT June 24, 2016 As part of the Clinton Street Fest, “City of Stories,” an interactive installation and...

Lower East Side COMMUNITY HERO Nominated by Kayte Handler & Felicia Mayro, St. Mark’s Historic Landmark Fund   Jimmy Fragosa is the Sexton at St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery  

“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...

by Imani Vieira as part of a series honoring Black Histories in the LES Image: Five Points streets intersection painted by George Catlin in 1827 Five Points was the site of...