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        Wesley Augustus Williams
        Wesley Augustus Williams
        Wesley Augustus Williams (1897-1984) was born in Harlem to Lucy Metrash and James Henry Williams, Chief of the Red Caps in Grand Central Terminal.  He’d been inspired as a boy...
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        Welikia Map:  Indigenous Lower East Side
        Welikia Map: Indigenous Lower East Side
        Welikia The land that would become NYC in 1609 To imagine a precolonial Lower East Side, one of the best resources is the Welikia map which reimagines New York City...
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        Nancy Sing-Bock – from Think!Chinatown
        Nancy Sing-Bock – from Think!Chinatown
        Artwork by: Jacqueline Tam / Curation & production by Yin Kong / Audio production by: / Rochelle Hoi-Yiu Kwan / Audio facilitation by: Nicolas Cadena / Video editing & animation...
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        W.O.W. Project
        W.O.W. Project
        W.O.W. Project The W.O.W. Project’s mission is to sustain ownership over Chinatown’s future by growing, protecting and preserving Chinatown’s creative culture through arts, culture and activism. The W.O.W. Project is...
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        Women
        Women
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        The Waistmaker’s Opera
        The Waistmaker’s Opera
        by Downtown Art (DTA ABOUT The Waistmaker’s Opera, celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the shirtwaist maker’s strike, one of the first major strikes led by women, premiered in May 2010;...
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        Wendy Brawer
        Wendy Brawer
        Lower East Side Community Hero Creator of the Green Map System and its director since 1995, Wendy Brawer is a designer, social innovator, consultant, and public educator. Based on the...
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