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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by Dakota Scott with trivia compiled by FABnyc and Downtown Art for the annual LES History Month event, LES Stories: Chalk the LES   Chalk, schmalk! Due to the COVID-19...

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   Notes from the Interviews: Interview...