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SUMMARY:New York Marble Cemetery Open Gate Day
DESCRIPTION:Organized by New York Marble Cemetery\nThe New York Marble Cemetery\, established in 1830\, is the oldest public non-denominational cemetery in the city.\nThis small garden is hidden in the interior of the block\, accessible through two sets of iron gates\, via a 100-foot private alley.\nSurrounded by 12-foot Tuckahoe marble walls\, it is only partially visible from Second Avenue\nThere are no individual markers on the lawn; however\, marble plaques in the walls bear the names of the original owners.\nTheir 156 underground vaults (burial chambers) are sealed\, and information about 2\,000 deceased New Yorkers is detailed in the Cemetery’s records.\nThe Cemetery holds annual meetings for its current owners\, who are descendants of its original 19th Century-owners and can still be buried here.\nIt is located one block away from the similarly-named\, yet separate\, New York City Marble Cemetery\, (nycmc.org) on Second Street.\nDesignated as a New York City Landmark and also listed on the National Register of Historic Places\, the New York Marble Cemetery is a 501 (c) (13) nonprofit tax-exempt charity. \nLocated at 41 1/2 Second Avenue in New York’s Lower East Side\, the Cemetery is open at least once a month\, April through October.‍ \nThere is no shelter\, so if the weather is unpleasant\, please take a raincheck until the next month. \nOwners\, neighbors\, and researchers are all welcome. Walking tours and other large groups must make arrangements in advance.
URL:https://www.peoplesles.org/event/new-york-marble-cemetery-open-gate-day/
LOCATION:New York Marble Cemetery\, 41 1/2 2nd Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10003
CATEGORIES:Lower East Side History Month,Outdoor Event
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SUMMARY:Cinco de Mayo Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Organized by La Sirena Mexican Folk Art\nFolclórico Mexican dance\, make your own diadama(flowercrown)\, vegan &traditional tamales\, hand crafted folk art and more!
URL:https://www.peoplesles.org/event/cinco-de-mayo-celebration/
LOCATION:La Sirena Mexican Folk Art\, 27 E 3rd St\, New York\, NY\, 10003
CATEGORIES:Lower East Side History Month,Outdoor Event
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SUMMARY:Making Music Together: Interracial Alliances and the Politics of Solidarity
DESCRIPTION:Organized by City Lore\n“It’s a twofer: at 2pm Jennifer Young and Elissa Sampson will speak about three feminist figures pivotal to the founding of the IWO’s interracial left and the new lessons that can be learned from the Old Left. Our panel\, with the incredible Jenny Romaine\, will dive into the musical\, artistic and political interweaving of feminist Jewish and Black identity in programmatic political work and cultural productions prior to the 1960s mainstream civil rights movement. Meet Clara Lemlich Shavelson\, Louise Thompson Patterson\, June Gordon who worked together in the International Workers Order (IWO)\, a left wing\, pro-Soviet fraternal group that was not part of the Communist Party but was within its orbit. \nThen another very special guest\, Ethel Raim from the Jewish Young Folksingers and the Center for Traditional Music\, will bring us into the world of integrated Yiddish choruses and folk performance that persisted and succeeded during the Cold War after the IWO (International Workers Order) and its Jewish Section were legally shutdown in 1954. \nThe Order\, which was founded by Yiddish speakers in 1930\, decided to be interracial and interethnic and invited in other groups into its fraternal umbrella which did not discriminate on the basis of race or religion and made no profit on its safety-net life and health insurance offerings which included reproductive health. 90% of the Order’s had no connection to the Communist Party even though the Order was shut down and its members lost their benefits due to the Red Scare during the Cold War which was connected to the IWO’s interracialism. The three women that we are highlighting here lived in precarious poverty and in fear of legal persecution for much of their lives at a moment in time which may resonate today. \nWe will end with our special guest Ethel Raim\, who was a Jewish Young Folksinger (JYF)\, a very special singer in an “integrated” choral group founded by the Jewish Section of the International Workers Order\, the JPFO. The Folksingers offer a wonderful in-your-face model of continuity and of community building through music during the Cold War. Their model was built on the footsteps of others and we follow their footsteps. \nPlease note that there is limited seating and this is a live event. Please RSVP in advance.”
URL:https://www.peoplesles.org/event/making-music-together-interracial-alliances-and-the-politics-of-solidarity/
LOCATION:City Lore\, 56 E 1st St\, New York\, NY\, 10003
CATEGORIES:Lower East Side History Month
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SUMMARY:Radical History Walking Tour
DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space\nSATURDAYS & SUNDAYS\, 3:00-5:00PM | $25/person | No reservations needed!\nMeet @ The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space – 155 Ave C\, 9th & 10th St\nTours need three people to run – and almost always do.\nMuseum of Reclaimed Urban Space organic historian Bill Weinberg reveals the stories behind squats\, gardens\, riots\, uprisings and more. From the Civil War Draft Riots of the 1860s — to the Young Lords\, Black Panthers\, hippies\, Yippies and Up Against the Wall Motherf*ckers of the 1960s — to the Tompkins Square anarchists of the ’80s — to the tree-hugging urban enviros of the ’90s to the neighborhood Earthies keeping the legacy alive today. Unlike other neighborhood tours\, we broaden beyond individual anecdotes to paint a strong historical\, academic\, and cultural big picture of the Lower East Side. \n\n\nFive things you will learn on the Lower East Side Radical History Tour that you probably didn’t know:\n1. The radical politics of the songwriter who penned the “Wizard of Oz” soundtrack.\n2. What building in the East Village links the Gershwin brothers\, the Black Panthers and Iggy Pop.\n3. What park in the East Village was the secret birthplace of both the Hare Krishna movement and Occupy Wall Street.\n4. How New York City’s recycling program began as an initiative of East Village community activists.\n5. Why the same area of the city has been variously known as Burnt Mill Point\, Drydock\, Little Germany\, Klein Deutschland\, the Lower East Side\, Loisaida\, the East Village and Alphabet City.
URL:https://www.peoplesles.org/event/radical-history-walking-tour/
LOCATION:Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space\, 155 Avenue C\, New York\, NY\, 10009
CATEGORIES:Lower East Side History Month,Walking Tour
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SUMMARY:Author Event: Daniel Root's "The East Village Then and Now"
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Book Club Bar\nWhen photographer Daniel Root moved to the East Village in the early 1980s\, this constantly changing neighborhood was in one of its periods of greatest ferment. Multiple immigrant groups maintained enclaves there—including Ukrainians\, Puerto Ricans\, Italians\, Dominicans\, and Poles—even as drug dealers plied their trade in abandoned buildings and young artists flooded in looking for cheap rents\, followed close behind by real estate speculators. Through his lens\, Root captured a young Madonna filming Desperately Seeking Susan on St. Mark’s Place; the storefront galleries of the East Village art scene; Life Cafe\, where Jonathan Larson would write—and set—Rent; retirees playing chess in Tompkins Square Park; junkies fleeing the police. Forty years later\, Root—still an East Village resident—has returned to the very same places where he took those pictures\, to document how the scene has changed. \nRoot’s “then and now” photographs\, presented together in this volume along with his wry commentary\, document the transformation of a legendary New York neighborhood for better and worse—higher rents\, yes\, but lower crime; displacement\, but also the persistence of community and creativity. A foreword by renowned artist Peter McGough and noted Beat historian Bill Morgan shed further light on the history of the East Village. This will be an essential volume for all downtown denizens\, past\, present\, and future. \nDaniel Root is a fine art photographer and a principal in the visual arts firm The Root Group. His popular predawn photographs of Manhattan water holes were collected in the book New York Bars at Dawn (Abbeville). You can find his daily photos\, a practice he’s now maintained for a decade\, on Instagram at @danielrootphotography. Root has lived in the East Village since the early 1980s. \nDaniel will be in conversation with Eric “Roscoe” Ambel\, musician/Lakeside Lounge.
URL:https://www.peoplesles.org/event/author-event-daniel-roots-the-east-village-then-and-now/
LOCATION:Book Club Bar\, 197 E 3rd Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009
CATEGORIES:Lower East Side History Month,Talk
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