Lower East Side Community Hero Nominated by Debra Jeffreys-Glass K Webster is a longtime resident and community organizer of the Bowery and the LES. She advocated for the return of...

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...

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...

by Imani Vieira  The Bowery traces the original north/south Lenape trail through Manahatta.  At what we now refer to as Astor Place, there was a crossroads which became a central...