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...
Think! Chinatown Think! Chinatown, an intergenerational non-profit based in Manhattan’s Chinatown, is here to listen, to respond, and to build Chinatown’s capacities as a strong & vibrant immigrant neighborhood of...
The Tenement Museum We tell the stories of Lower East Side tenement residents, who moved to New York City from other countries and other parts of the country. Their work...
from Village Preservation and Loisaida, Inc The Loisaida Inc. Center Architect CBJ Snyder was a prolific designer of New York public school buildings, completing more than 350 schools in...
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 Thea Martinez is honored to be part of the Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES) Land Use and Public Housing Committee. Thea first became involved...
written by Dakota Scott as part of a series to better know the history of policing in Lower Manhattan Tammany Hall. The infamous political force. In 1798, the Tammany Society...
