This weekly feature spotlights a wide variety of people who live and work on the Lower East Side.  If you would like to participate in “My LES”, please email us here.

What do you do?

I’m a freelance journalist and writer, an assistant editor at SMITH Magazine, and an intern at the Lower Eastside Girls Club.

How long [...]

This weekly feature spotlights a wide variety of people who live and work on the Lower East Side.  If you would like to participate in “My LES”, please email us here.

What do you do?

I run UncommonGoods, an online and catalog store featuring creatively designed products.  I am also working with a group of neighborhood [...]

This weekly feature spotlights a wide variety of people who live and work on the Lower East Side.  If you would like to participate in “My LES”, please email us here.

What do you do?

I’m a mother of three children and the Assistant Director For Foundation and Government Support for The Door, a youth development agency, [...]

This weekly feature spotlights a wide variety of people who live and work on the Lower East Side.  If you would like to participate in “My LES”, please email us here.

Amarilis Perez – photo by Traven Rice

What do you do?

I work at the Educational Alliance as the Director of the Edgies Teen [...]

This weekly feature spotlights a wide variety of people who live and work on the Lower East Side.  If you would like to participate in “My LES”, please email us here.

Jessica Delfino – photo by Traven Rice

What do you do?

I’m a controversial satirical / comedic musician who travels the world, performing, and also performs [...]

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Ricardo Gonzalez – photo by Ashlie Cotton

This weekly feature spotlights a wide variety of people who live and work on the Lower East Side.  If you would like to participate in “My LES,” please email us here.

What do you do?

I’m a painter and I work in art galleries installing artwork.

How long have you lived [...]

Will Johnson photo by Traven Rice

This weekly feature spotlights a wide variety of people who live and work on the Lower East Side.  If you would like to participate in “My LES”, please email us here.

What do you do?

Owner and Stylist at Whistle Salon.

How long have you lived on the LES?

On [...]

This weekly feature spotlights a wide variety of people who live and work on the Lower East Side.  If you would like to participate in “My LES”, please email us here.

What do you do?

I run a cafe on Grand Street called Roots & Vines. We opened about 5 years ago and are [...]

This weekly feature spotlights a wide variety of people who live on the Lower East Side.  If you would like to participate in “My LES”, please email us here.

What do you do?

I’m a mother, I have two websites—one local webforum, www.lesparents.com, that helps keep parents in the neighborhood (and the East Village) connected and another, [...]

Thomas Benjamin Snapp Pryor – photo by Traven Rice

This week, The Lo-Down launches our new series, “My LES”.  The weekly feature will spotlight a wide variety of people who live on the Lower East Side.  If you would like to participate in “My LES”, please email us here.

Our first “LES-er” is Thomas Benjamin [...]