Organized by The Tenement Museum Get a taste of tenement history! Explore over 150 years of Lower East Side history through the stories of immigrant and migrant communities and the unique food cultures that defined life in the neighborhood. Together with a Museum Educator, examine ways in which tenement residents both preserved and adapted the […]
Organized by New York Marble Cemetery The New York Marble Cemetery, established in 1830, is the oldest public non-denominational cemetery in the city. This small garden is hidden in the interior of the block, accessible through two sets of iron gates, via a 100-foot private alley. Surrounded by 12-foot Tuckahoe marble walls, it is only […]
Organized by The Tenement Museum Join a Museum educator as they guide you on an outdoor walking tour of the Lower East Side to reveal the unique stories that buildings can tell. Over the neighborhood’s history, many different communities have lived, worked and played here––and just as many communities have had ideas about what the […]
Organized by Lower East Side Preservation Initiative (LESPI) with The Clemente On View: May 1 – June 30 Where: Banner Exhibition on the outdoor Clemente building fence, on the corner of Rivington St. and Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002 Organized by: Lower East Side Preservation Initiative — LESPI Opening Reception: Saturday, May 2 @ […]
Organized by the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS, 3:00-5:00PM | $25/person | No reservations needed! Meet @ The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space – 155 Ave C, 9th & 10th St Tours need three people to run – and almost always do. Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space organic historian Bill Weinberg reveals the stories behind squats, gardens, riots, […]
Organized by New York Marble Cemetery The New York Marble Cemetery, established in 1830, is the oldest public non-denominational cemetery in the city. This small garden is hidden in the interior of the block, accessible through two sets of iron gates, via a 100-foot private alley. Surrounded by 12-foot Tuckahoe marble walls, it is only […]
Organized by La Sirena Mexican Folk Art Folclórico Mexican dance, make your own diadama(flowercrown), vegan &traditional tamales, hand crafted folk art and more!
Organized by City Lore “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 […]
Organized by the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS, 3:00-5:00PM | $25/person | No reservations needed! Meet @ The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space – 155 Ave C, 9th & 10th St Tours need three people to run – and almost always do. Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space organic historian Bill Weinberg reveals the stories behind squats, gardens, riots, […]
Organized by Book Club Bar When 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 […]