Lower East Side Community Hero Special acknowledgement from the LES Community Hero Awards selection committee Born and raised in the Jacob Riis Projects in the Lower East Side, Lilah Mejia...

Click here for the chalking trivia! Making history visible on our neighborhood sidewalks in celebration of LES History Month!

LOWER EAST SIDE COMMUNITY HEROES Ed Litvak and Traven Rice are the founders of the local website, The Lo-Down. Ed and Traven are Lower East Side residents who launched The...

  LES Black & Red by artist Dennis RedMoon Darkeem was created to honor Black and Indigenous histories of the Lower East Side.  The project includes four ‘light boxes’ each...

The Chino-Latino Project Oral History Collection at the Museum of Chinese in America The Chino-Latino Project consists of interviews with people of Chinese descent that immigrated to Central and South...

from Five Boro Story Project in collaboration with Downtown Art As part of LES History Month, “LES Is More: Loisaida Activism” honored the Lower East Side’s living legacy of activism....

from Five Boro Story Project in collaboration with City Lore and Downtown Art ABOUT November 7, 2014, at City Lore “LES Is More: Growing Up on the Lower East Side”...

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