LOWER EAST SIDE COMMUNITY HERO Special Acknowledgement Neighbors to Save Rivington House The 2017 LES Community Hero Awards presented a special acknowledgement for “Neighbors to Save Rivington House” for their...

  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...

LOWER EAST SIDE COMMUNITY HERO Nominated by Susan LaRosa, Henry Street Settlement Ruth Taube is the Program Director of Home Planning Workshop at Henry Street Settlement. A Lower East Side native, Ruth...

Lower East Side Community Hero Nominated by Damaris Reyes, Good Old Lower East Side This award honored Ricky Leung posthumously. Ricky Leung was a Board Member of Good Old Lower East Side....

by Imani Vieira part of a series honoring Black Histories in the LES   During an excavation for the General Services Administration federal government office building at 290 Broadway in...