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100 Years Apart
100 Years Apart
Tenement Museum Explore how immigrant women coped with economic hardship through the stories of Natalie Gumpertz and Mrs. Wong. Hear how these two women, living a century apart, shared similar...
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Iconic New York Jewish Food
Iconic New York Jewish Food
The Museum at Eldridge Street To celebrate the publication of June Hersh‘s delicious new book Iconic New York Jewish Food (The History Press, 2023), celebrated foodies Niki Russ Federman (co-owner...
FREE
2 events,
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Forgotten Lower East Side Walking Tour
Forgotten Lower East Side Walking Tour
Lower East Side History Project The “Forgotten Lower East Side” walking tour goes off the beaten path, exploring districts and aspects of our neighborhood most excursions overlook. Sure, we’ll discuss...
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Day in the Life: 1902
Day in the Life: 1902
Tenement Museum This apartment tour takes you into the world of tenement families to explore the challenges and changes faced by Jewish immigrant mothers in 1902. Visit the Levine family’s...
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3 events,
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Reclaiming Black Spaces
Reclaiming Black Spaces
Tenement Museum In the Tenement Museum’s newest neighborhood walking tour, Reclaiming Black Spaces, we’ll highlight stories of how Black and African Americans shaped Lower Manhattan as they made homes, businesses, and communities...
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A Place for Us: Reflections from Chinatown / 我們的歸宿
A Place for Us: Reflections from Chinatown / 我們的歸宿
Think!Chinatown To celebrate the publication of the Chinatown Commercial District Needs Assessment (CDNA) report, Think!Chinatown presents “A Place for Us: Reflections from Chinatown / 我們的歸宿”, a photography exhibition featuring photos...
FREE
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Climate Thinking in Public Space
Climate Thinking in Public Space
Green Map System Join a climate-focused tour of the storied Lower East Side, exploring public space, energy and sustainability features, indoors and out. We’ll visit a dozen or more sites...
FREE
4 events,
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Chalk the Avenue B Open Street!
Chalk the Avenue B Open Street!
FABnyc & Loisaida Open Streets Community Coalition Join us on the Avenue B Open Street to chalk LES history and trivia! We'll provide the chalk and the trivia -- or...
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Traditional Mexican Folk Dance, and lots more!
Traditional Mexican Folk Dance, and lots more!
La Sirena Mexican Folk Art La Sirena will have a community art table for kids and grown-ups, music, Traditional Mexican Folk Dance with dancers from Mazarte Dance Company, traditional food,...
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East Village Rock Tour: Beyond Iconic Photos
East Village Rock Tour: Beyond Iconic Photos
Village Preservation In July and August 2022 we offered our first Rock Tours of the year and the demand was overwhelming– so we’re bringing it back in 2023. Rock n’...
4 events,
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Lower East Side Radical History
Lower East Side Radical History
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space Come visit legendary historic sites where the community faced off with gentrification and corporate power. Peek inside vibrant community gardens and legendary tenement buildings, Tompkins Square Park and the first community-based recycling center. MoRUS tours are led by activists and community members who recount their own personal involvement with social...
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Jewish Gangsters on the Lower East Side
Jewish Gangsters on the Lower East Side
Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy The late nineteenth and early twentieth century witnessed a rise in organized crime in New York City. Pickpockets, extortionists, armed robbers, bootleggers, gamblers and contract...
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MOCA Presents: A Dance Workshop with Choreographer Jiemin Yang
MOCA Presents: A Dance Workshop with Choreographer Jiemin Yang
Museum of Chinese in America The Museum of Chinese in America is proud to partner with Choreographer Jiemin Yang under MOCA’s Creative Space Grant Initiative to present a community dance...
Free
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Exploring a Tenement: 1933
Exploring a Tenement: 1933
Tenement Museum Join us for an exploration of the research, preservation, and restoration work that goes into every Tenement Museum tour. Learn about Italian immigrants Adolfo and Rosaria Baldizzi, and...
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1 event,
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Forgotten Lower East Side Walking Tour
Forgotten Lower East Side Walking Tour
Lower East Side History Project The “Forgotten Lower East Side” walking tour goes off the beaten path, exploring districts and aspects of our neighborhood most excursions overlook. Sure, we’ll discuss the tenements and immigrant experience in detail, but we’ll go beyond the familiar narrative and cover a thousand years of important history; from Native Americans...
2 events,
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A Place for Us: Reflections from Chinatown / 我們的歸宿
A Place for Us: Reflections from Chinatown / 我們的歸宿
Think!Chinatown To celebrate the publication of the Chinatown Commercial District Needs Assessment (CDNA) report, Think!Chinatown presents “A Place for Us: Reflections from Chinatown / 我們的歸宿”, a photography exhibition featuring photos of the neighborhood by our community of photographers. From the grit of Mom & Pop legacy businesses to the joys of reclaiming public spaces, the...
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Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter
Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter
Abrons Arts Center Join us for a ceremonial fire organized by Emily Johnson and Karyn Recollet centering Indigenous protocol and knowledge. Johnson and Recollet invite guest artists and organizers to gather around a fire to share stories and performances in honor and protection of the land, water, and air of Lenapehoking, the homelands of the...
FREE
2 events,
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LES Hidden Gems Video Tour
LES Hidden Gems Video Tour
Grand Street Settlement Older Adults Center Join us on a facilitated video tour of Lower East Side's accessible dining and shopping places, as well as a conversation on your favorite...
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A Place for Us: Reflections from Chinatown / 我們的歸宿
A Place for Us: Reflections from Chinatown / 我們的歸宿
Think!Chinatown To celebrate the publication of the Chinatown Commercial District Needs Assessment (CDNA) report, Think!Chinatown presents “A Place for Us: Reflections from Chinatown / 我們的歸宿”, a photography exhibition featuring photos...
FREE
4 events,
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Ecological City – Procession for Climate Solutions
Ecological City – Procession for Climate Solutions
Earth Celebrations Earth Celebrations' ECOLOGICAL CITY - Procession for Climate Solutions features a spectacular procession of visual art, giant puppets, costumes and 21 site performances celebrating climate solution initiatives throughout...
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Traditional Mexican Folk Dance, and lots more !
Traditional Mexican Folk Dance, and lots more !
La Sirena Mexican Folk Art La Sirena will have a community art table for kids and grown-ups, music, Traditional Mexican Folk Dance with dancers from Mazarte Dance Company, traditional food,...
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Forgotten Lower East Side Walking Tour
Forgotten Lower East Side Walking Tour
Lower East Side History Project The “Forgotten Lower East Side” walking tour goes off the beaten path, exploring districts and aspects of our neighborhood most excursions overlook. Sure, we’ll discuss...
3 events,
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1,000 years of Lower East Side History Walking Tour
1,000 years of Lower East Side History Walking Tour
Lower East Side History Project The “1,000 years of Lower East Side History” walking tour, offered exclusively for Lower East Side History Month, goes off the beaten path, exploring districts...
Historic Walking Tour of 19th Century Noho
Historic Walking Tour of 19th Century Noho
Merchant's House Museum Join us for a journey back in time to the elite ‘Bond Street area,’ home to Astors, Vanderbilts, Delanos – and the Tredwells, who lived in the Merchant’s House. With the 1825 opening of the Erie Canal, the city's economy boomed and wealthy merchant families escaped the increasing noise, congestion, and commercialization...
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Lower East Side Radical History
Lower East Side Radical History
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space Come visit legendary historic sites where the community faced off with gentrification and corporate power. Peek inside vibrant community gardens and legendary tenement buildings, Tompkins...
0 events,
0 events,
2 events,
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Forgotten Lower East Side Walking Tour
Forgotten Lower East Side Walking Tour
Lower East Side History Project The “Forgotten Lower East Side” walking tour goes off the beaten path, exploring districts and aspects of our neighborhood most excursions overlook. Sure, we’ll discuss...
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Bialystoker the Beautiful
Bialystoker the Beautiful
Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy Join us for an evening tour of the magnificent Bialystoker Synagogue, which was built in 1826 as a Methodist Church and believed to be a...
3 events,
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Lower East Side History & Asian American History Open Salon
Lower East Side History & Asian American History Open Salon
New York Theatre Workshop and Poetic Theater Productions Join us and maybe perform your own poetry, theatre, music! We are searching for original music, songs, poetry, spoken word, story-telling, drag,...
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A Place for Us: Reflections from Chinatown / 我們的歸宿
A Place for Us: Reflections from Chinatown / 我們的歸宿
Think!Chinatown To celebrate the publication of the Chinatown Commercial District Needs Assessment (CDNA) report, Think!Chinatown presents “A Place for Us: Reflections from Chinatown / 我們的歸宿”, a photography exhibition featuring photos...
FREE
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East Side Stories Up Close
East Side Stories Up Close
Metropolitan Playhouse All New Solo Performances based on interviews with Metropolitan's neighbors. Drawn from interviews with the theater's neighbors, these verbatim monologues are "great theater....storytelling at its best" (Hi Drama)...
3 events,
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A Place for Us: Reflections from Chinatown / 我們的歸宿
A Place for Us: Reflections from Chinatown / 我們的歸宿
Think!Chinatown To celebrate the publication of the Chinatown Commercial District Needs Assessment (CDNA) report, Think!Chinatown presents “A Place for Us: Reflections from Chinatown / 我們的歸宿”, a photography exhibition featuring photos...
FREE
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Saint George Annual 7th Street Ukrainian Festival
Saint George Annual 7th Street Ukrainian Festival
Saint George Ukrainian Festival St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church The festival runs from Friday evening, May 19, through Sunday late afternoon, May 22: Friday 5/19 @ 4:00pm – “cold open”...
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East Side Stories Up Close
East Side Stories Up Close
Metropolitan Playhouse All New Solo Performances based on interviews with Metropolitan's neighbors. Drawn from interviews with the theater's neighbors, these verbatim monologues are "great theater....storytelling at its best" (Hi Drama)...
10 events,
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Squats and Gardens
Squats and Gardens
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space Come visit legendary historic sites where the community faced off with gentrification and corporate power. Peek inside vibrant community gardens and legendary tenement buildings, Tompkins...
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Saint George Annual 7th Street Ukrainian Festival
Saint George Annual 7th Street Ukrainian Festival
Saint George Ukrainian Festival St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church The festival runs from Friday evening, May 19, through Sunday late afternoon, May 22: Friday 5/19 @ 4:00pm – “cold open”...
Free
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Saint George Annual 7th Street Ukrainian Festival
Saint George Annual 7th Street Ukrainian Festival
Saint George Ukrainian Festival St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church The festival runs from Friday evening, May 19, through Sunday late afternoon, May 22: Friday 5/19 @ 4:00pm – “cold open”...
Free
5 events,
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Greek Jewish Festival
Greek Jewish Festival
Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum Join the Greek Jewish Festival as we celebrate the unique Romaniote and Sephardic heritage of the Jews of Greece! Experience a feast for the senses including authentic kosher Greek foods and homemade Greek pastries, traditional Greek dancing and live Greek and Sephardic music, an outdoor marketplace full of vendors,...
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Saint George Annual 7th Street Ukrainian Festival
Saint George Annual 7th Street Ukrainian Festival
Saint George Ukrainian Festival St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church The festival runs from Friday evening, May 19, through Sunday late afternoon, May 22: Friday 5/19 @ 4:00pm – “cold open” **no stage show** with food and crafts vendors open for business Saturday 5/20 @ 2:00p – Outdoor song and dance stage performances Saturday 5/20 @...
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The Clemente’s Open Studios
The Clemente’s Open Studios
The Clemente & Artists Alliance The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center, Artists Alliance Inc., and the Clemente Residents are pleased to announce the 26th edition of The Clemente Open Studios on Saturday, May 21 from 4-8p and Sunday, May 22, 2023 from 2-6p. Housing more than 46 visual artists’ studios and 11 visual...
Free
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First Floor Walk Up Presents: THEN & NOW
First Floor Walk Up Presents: THEN & NOW
First Floor Walk Up presents Readings of Poetry and Prose at P&T Knitwear Books and Cafe In honor of Lower East Side History Month, P&T Knitwear Books and Café brings together four authors, artists, and storytellers - two of whom are Lower East Side residents - to share their stories based on the theme, THEN...
Free
0 events,
1 event,
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Forgotten Lower East Side History Walking Tour
Forgotten Lower East Side History Walking Tour
Lower East Side History Project The “Forgotten Lower East Side” walking tour goes off the beaten path, exploring districts and aspects of our neighborhood most excursions overlook. Sure, we’ll discuss...
3 events,
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A Place for Us: Reflections from Chinatown / 我們的歸宿
A Place for Us: Reflections from Chinatown / 我們的歸宿
Think!Chinatown To celebrate the publication of the Chinatown Commercial District Needs Assessment (CDNA) report, Think!Chinatown presents “A Place for Us: Reflections from Chinatown / 我們的歸宿”, a photography exhibition featuring photos of the neighborhood by our community of photographers. From the grit of Mom & Pop legacy businesses to the joys of reclaiming public spaces, the...
FREE
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Open Arts LES: Cobu, NY Chinese Cultural Center & “Rabble Rousers”
Open Arts LES: Cobu, NY Chinese Cultural Center & “Rabble Rousers”
FABnyc & Cooper Square Mutual Housing Association Celebrate AAPI History and Culture + Lower East Side History Month on the East 4th Street Open Street! 5-6pm: Japanese Taiko Drumming with...
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East Side Stories Up Close
East Side Stories Up Close
Metropolitan Playhouse All New Solo Performances based on interviews with Metropolitan's neighbors. Drawn from interviews with the theater's neighbors, these verbatim monologues are "great theater....storytelling at its best" (Hi Drama)...
3 events,
27th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY With the roster still building, Theater for the New City has currently scheduled over 200 performing arts organizations, independent artists, poets, puppeteers and film makers for its 28th annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, which will be mounted May 26 to 28 in and around Theater for the...
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A Place for Us: Reflections from Chinatown / 我們的歸宿
A Place for Us: Reflections from Chinatown / 我們的歸宿
Think!Chinatown To celebrate the publication of the Chinatown Commercial District Needs Assessment (CDNA) report, Think!Chinatown presents “A Place for Us: Reflections from Chinatown / 我們的歸宿”, a photography exhibition featuring photos of the neighborhood by our community of photographers. From the grit of Mom & Pop legacy businesses to the joys of reclaiming public spaces, the...
FREE
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East Side Stories Close Up
East Side Stories Close Up
Metropolitan Playhouse All New Solo Performances based on interviews with Metropolitan's neighbors. Drawn from interviews with the theater's neighbors, these verbatim monologues are "great theater....storytelling at its best" (Hi Drama)...
6 events,
27th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY With the roster still building, Theater for the New City has currently scheduled over 200 performing arts organizations, independent artists, poets, puppeteers and film makers for its 28th annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, which will be mounted May 26 to 28 in and around Theater for the...
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Tradtional Mexican folk dance, and lots more !
Tradtional Mexican folk dance, and lots more !
La Sirena Mexican Folk Art La Sirena will have a community art table for kids and grown-ups, music, Traditional Mexican Folk Dance with dancers from Mazarte Dance Company, traditional food,...
FREE
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Forgotten Lower East Side Walking Tour
Forgotten Lower East Side Walking Tour
Lower East Side History Project The “Forgotten Lower East Side” walking tour goes off the beaten path, exploring districts and aspects of our neighborhood most excursions overlook. Sure, we’ll discuss...
-
Squats and Gardens
Squats and Gardens
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space Come visit legendary historic sites where the community faced off with gentrification and corporate power. Peek inside vibrant community gardens and legendary tenement buildings, Tompkins...
7 events,
27th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY With the roster still building, Theater for the New City has currently scheduled over 200 performing arts organizations, independent artists, poets, puppeteers and film makers for its 28th annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, which will be mounted May 26 to 28 in and around Theater for the...
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36th Annual Loisaida Festival
36th Annual Loisaida Festival
The Loisaida Center Since 1987, the Loisaida Festival has honored its history by providing a platform to celebrate arts & culture through music, dance, arts, cuisine, and other cultural manifestations...
FREE
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Typewritten Tales
Typewritten Tales
6 & B Garden Tell your unique East Village story on a page of real paper typed on our vintage typewriters! Readings by local poets and writers start at 4pm....
Free
Historic Walking Tour of 19th Century Noho
Historic Walking Tour of 19th Century Noho
Merchant's House Museum Join us for a journey back in time to the elite ‘Bond Street area,’ home to Astors, Vanderbilts, Delanos – and the Tredwells, who lived in the...
1 event,
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Surviving, Struggles And Speculators (A Tenant Tale)
Surviving, Struggles And Speculators (A Tenant Tale)
Cooper Square Committee A Studio One student performance about tenants and their relationships – or lack thereof – with their landlords in the Lower East Side. A theatrical interpretation of...
3 events,
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“Rabble Rousers” + Panel on LES Community Activism
“Rabble Rousers” + Panel on LES Community Activism
University Settlement & Cooper Square Committee University Settlement and the Cooper Square Committee invite Lower East Side neighbors to a screening of the film "Rabble Rousers," which tells the story of community activist Frances Goldin and her LES neighbors’ struggle against Robert Moses’ plans for the neighborhood across five decades, including the formation of the...
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Forgotten Lower East Side Walking Tour
Forgotten Lower East Side Walking Tour
Lower East Side History Project The “Forgotten Lower East Side” walking tour goes off the beaten path, exploring districts and aspects of our neighborhood most excursions overlook. Sure, we’ll discuss the tenements and immigrant experience in detail, but we’ll go beyond the familiar narrative and cover a thousand years of important history; from Native Americans...
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Surviving, Struggles And Speculators (A Tenant Tale)
Surviving, Struggles And Speculators (A Tenant Tale)
Cooper Square Committee A Studio One student performance about tenants and their relationships – or lack thereof – with their landlords in the Lower East Side. A theatrical interpretation of stories from residents and organizers from the Lower East Side, presented by STUDIO ONE in collaboration with Cooper Square Committee and BeBop Theatre Collective. The...