GVSHP Loisaida Inc Author Nandini Bagchee examines three re-purposed buildings on the Lower East Side that have been used by activists over the past forty years. The...
Contested City: Art and Public History as Mediation at New York's Seward Park Urban Renewal Area by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani ABOUT Revealing the untold stories of fifty years of...
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Loisaida, Inc. stands firm on its original mission – Address the serious economic and social disenfranchisement of poor and low income Latino residents, with employment and...
The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation was founded in 1980 to preserve the architectural heritage and cultural history of Greenwich Village, the East Village,...
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ORGANIZATIONS Sixth Street Community Center ABOUT Written by Howard Brandstein The homesteading movement grew out of two concurrent phenomena in the 1970s and early 1980s: increasing homelessness and overcrowding in...
LOWER EAST SIDE COMMUNITY HERO Nominated by Steve Herrick, Cooper Square Committee (CSC) Harriet Putterman has had a long association with Cooper Square Committee (CSC) and has been a...
LOWER EAST SIDE COMMUNITY HERO Paul Garrin has been a resident of the Lower East side for 36 years. Paul an award-winning media and technology artist,...