• Film Screening: Squatters: A NYC Documentary w/ Catalina Santamaria

    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 squatting 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 23rd till May 28th 2026 Location: 155 Loisaida Ave NY NY 10009 […]

    Free
  • Walking Tour: Jewish Lower East Side

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

    Organized by the 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 […]

    $25
  • Walking Tour: Queer Artist/Activists of the Lower East Side, 1960-2000

    Abrons Arts Center 466 Grand Street, New York, NY

    Organized by Close Friends Collective with Henry Street Settlement Join us as we spend the 2026 season remixing our walking tours of the Lower East Side and the East Village! On our first tour offering this season, we will look at many influential queer artist/activists of the late 20th century on the Lower East Side […]

    $20
  • Exhibit Opening: The Gates of Tompkins

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

    Organized by the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space The Gates of Tompkins exhibit, which is at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space in NYC, will open on Thursday, May 28th at 4:00pm. It will be open to the public weekly on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 12-5pm until June 21st. After a financial crisis that […]

    Free
  • Film Screening: Tompkins Square Riot Footage w/ Clayton Patterson

    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 squatting 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 23rd till May 28th 2026 Location: 155 Loisaida Ave NY NY 10009 […]

    Free
  • Walking Tour: The Jewish Gangsters of Lower Manhattan

    Ottendorfer Library 135 2nd Avenue, New York, NY

    Organized by Museum at Eldridge Street Pickpockets, extortionists, armed robbers, bootleggers, gamblers, and hitmen cropped up not only in the Five Points neighborhood but also in the growing Jewish Lower East Side. Join us as we take to the streets and learn the story of organized crime in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries […]

    $25
  • Typewritten Tales

    6th & B Garden on the corner of E 6th & Ave B, New York, NY

    Organized by 6th & 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. Raindate will be on May 31st, stay tuned for announcements, as needed.

    Free
  • Little Ukraine Walking Tour

    The Ukrainian Museum 222 E 6th St, New York, NY

    Organized by The Ukrainian Museum Discover the soul of Little Ukraine! Join us for a captivating stroll through one of the most culturally rich pockets of New York’s East Village. The vibrant neighborhood known as Little Ukraine was once home to 60,000 inhabitants of Ukrainian heritage after WWII, and it still pulses with history, flavor, […]

    $10
  • Walking Tour: The Bowery – from tap dance & vaudeville to skid row & punk rock

    Organized by Bowery Alliance of Neighbors Originally a Native American footpath and Dutch farm road, the Bowery was the city’s first entertainment district and “cradle of American popular culture.” It has seminal links to tap dance, vaudeville, Yiddish theater, Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, baseball, modern tattooing, and Harry Houdini. The stomping ground for sailors, shopgirls, gangs, gays, grifters […]