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  • Walking Tour: Outside the Home

    103 Orchard Street 103 Orchard Street, New York, NY

    Organized by The Tenement Museum Public and neighborhood spaces have always been part of New Yorkers daily lives, offering community beyond the walls of home. On this walking tour, we’ll look at how Lower East Siders shaped and were shaped by their neighborhood over the 19th and early 20th Centuries. From stores to parks, movie theaters to schools, discover how these spaces became important centers for navigating identity, advocacy, and cultural exchange. This tour discusses the people and […]

    $30

  • Walking Tour: Jewish Lower East Side

    12 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002 12 Eldridge Street, New York, NY

    Organized by Museum at Eldridge Street Stroll through the neighborhood’s 100-year-old history! A century ago, the Lower East Side saw unparalleled growth as waves of immigrants settled, prayed, played, worked, shopped, and attended school in this neighborhood as they built their new lives in a new land. Today, there are signs of the past hidden […]

    $25

  • Everyday Chinatown: Objects and the Stories They Hold – A Storytelling & Art Exhibition

    Think!Chinatown 1 Pike Street, New York, NY

    Organized by Think!Chinatown “Everyday Chinatown: Objects and the Stories They Hold” is the latest Storytelling & Art Exhibition by Think!Chinatown. On Display at Think!Chinatown’s Studio (1 Pike St, NYC) from February 12, 2026, until May 2026, on select Thursdays and Fridays from 3-6pm, please check website for gallery hours before visiting and for exhibit and […]

    Free

  • Open Arts LES: Sonido Costeño

    E 4th Street Open Street 70 E 4th St, New York, NY, United States

    Open Arts LES is back on 4th Street. Stop by for Latin music and salsa with our neighborhood favorite, Sonido Costeño! Sonido Costeño (SC) is a modern day Latin band in New York City. Their high energy music is a creative fusion of latin music and salsa along with other world music and their fabulous […]

    Free

  • Book Talk: The Bowery – A Pictorial History

    Ottendorfer Library 135 2nd Avenue, New York, NY

    Organized by Bowery Alliance of Neighbors with Ottendorfer Library An Illustrated talk with author David Mulkins Native American trail, Dutch farm road, free Black homesteads, and Washington’s march route during the British evacuation, Bowery became the main street of immigrants & the working class. NYC’s 1st entertainment district, it has seminal links to tap dance, […]

    Free

  • Film Screening: Squat or Rot + How to Squash a Squat w/ Franck Lazare and Special Guest

    Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space 155 Avenue C, New York, NY

    Organized by the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space MoRUS will be screening films about taking over abandoned buildings, fixing them up, and turning them into communal housing in the Lower East Side. After each showing, there will be a discussion and Q&A with special guests! More info to come! DOORS at 6pm every THURSDAY April […]

    Free

  • Everyday Chinatown: Objects and the Stories They Hold – A Storytelling & Art Exhibition

    Think!Chinatown 1 Pike Street, New York, NY

    Organized by Think!Chinatown “Everyday Chinatown: Objects and the Stories They Hold” is the latest Storytelling & Art Exhibition by Think!Chinatown. On Display at Think!Chinatown’s Studio (1 Pike St, NYC) from February 12, 2026, until May 2026, on select Thursdays and Fridays from 3-6pm, please check website for gallery hours before visiting and for exhibit and […]

    Free

  • Ecological City: Procession for Climate Solutions

    Organized by Earth Celebrations   Earth Celebrations’ ECOLOGICAL CITY – Procession for Climate Solutions – SATURDAY MAY 9, 2026 – 11am-5pm @ Lower East Side, NYC ECOLOGICAL CITY – Procession for Climate Solutions is an urban ecological pilgrimage and an art and climate action. Ecological City features a spectacular procession of visual art, giant puppets, costumes […]

    Free

  • Open Arts LES: Chalk Lower East Side Trivia! + Duo Chuño and Jamile Trio

    Loisaida Open Streets Community Coalition Avenue B

    Organized by FABnyc with Loisaida Open Streets Community Coalition Duo Chuño performs Latin songs with self-customized percussion, Jamile Trio plays Brazilian Jazz. Come by and chalk some colorful LES trivia as well — we’ll provide the chalk and the trivia!

    Free

  • Radical History Walking Tour

    Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space 155 Avenue C, New York, NY

    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, […]

    $25