The Art, Education, and Community Practice Program, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development NYU The History of Housing Activism in the Lower East Side, 2016 The History of...

Messages to Go by Hatuey Ramos-Fermín an art commission by FABnyc and Downtown Art FABnyc and Downtown Art present Hatuey Ramos-Fermín’s Messages to Go, an art project that produced, designed,...

Robert “Bob” Humber LOWER EAST SIDE COMMUNITY HERO   Robert “Bob” Humber was born in Georgia on June 12, 1936. At the age of 6, he and his family relocated...

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...

Produced by Think!Chinatown / Featuring Jan Lee and Amy Chin / Audio produced by / Rochelle Hoi-Yiu Kwan / Audio facilitated by Nicolas Cadena / Audio mixed by Jarrett Floyd...

Lower East Side Community Hero Nominated by Steve Herrick, Cooper Square Committee (CSC) photo by Whitney Browne Harriet Putterman has had a long association with Cooper Square Committee (CSC) and...

The Henry Street Settlement is America’s oldest settlement house. Founded in 1893 by American Nurse and social worker, Lillian D. Wald, at a time where few public assistance resources existed. Since then it has served as a community center and a public resource to those settling and living in the