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July 26th, 2010
I’m the Associate Artistic Director and Administrative Director at The Living Theatre, as well as Personal and Business Manager to Judith Malina, Artistic Director of The Living Theatre. July 19th, 2010
This weekly feature spotlights a wide variety of people who live and work on the Lower East Side. If you have someone you would like to suggest be featured in “My LES,” please email us here.
What do you do? I’m an independent clothing designer working with hand woven and block printed textiles that I create with my husband’s family in Kolkata, India. July 12th, 2010
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.
Workwise, I run the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center on Suffolk Street. It’s a 98,000 square foot former P.S. 160. GORGEOUS. Built in 1897. It fell on hard times when the City, which still owns it, more or less abandoned it in 1973. Continue reading My L.E.S. – Jan Hanvik July 5th, 2010
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.  Carlin Greenstein at the Hester Street Fair
What do you do? I am a Private Chef. I’ve spent the majority of my career cooking for celebrities in the entertainment industry. I also run a small business called, Chew On This. We design and sell two culinary wheels (guides), one for buying local, seasonal produce and the other on how to use fresh herbs in your cooking. Continue reading My L.E.S. – Carlin Greenstein June 21st, 2010
 Brian Crowley in Gulick Park What do you do? Currently, I’m a stay-at-home dad with my 7-month-old son; he came along at the right time, just as I was opting out of a philosophy doctoral program and academic life. So I do funny faces, funny sounds, and more generally help him explore his place in the world. To keep busy with ‘more adult’ things, I’ve been volunteering with The Friends of Gulick Park and with the core-group developing The Lower East Side Food Co-op. June 16th, 2010
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.
 Yevgeniy Fiks - Photo by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis What do you do? I’m an artist. What are you working on now?
My next big project is on Alisa Zinov’evna Rosenbaum, who is better known in the US as Ayn Rand. Continue reading My L.E.S. – Yevgeniy Fiks June 7th, 2010
 Frances Pena - photo by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis for The Lo-down What do you do? I work at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum as a Payroll Administrator. How long have you lived on the LES? I was born and raised in the LES. I still live in the LES. April 13th, 2010
 Francesca Romeo - a self portrait in front of Motor City
What do you do? I’m an artist (francescaromeo.com), primarily documentary photography (danielcooneyfineart.com) and filmmaking, and I own Motor City Bar on Ludlow St. March 8th, 2010
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 have you lived on the LES? I’ve always lived low and east (in Chinatown) but I officially set up proper in the LES August ’09.
Favorite block in the hood? My favorite block would have to be the delicious stretch of Ave B shooting down from 11th street and dipping deep into Clinton after Houston. It’s perfect, it encompasses the park, lots of live music venues, Back Forty, Frankies 17, Clinton St. Bakery, Mercadito… Glorious. March 1st, 2010
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 volunteers to help restore Luther Gulick (Sheriff) Park on Delancey and Bialystoker Streets. I’m on the board of advisors of CDI, a non-profit that I helped start. We’re trying to help 17-22 year-old public high school students graduate and achieve their full potential. I also try to keep our two boisterous boys, Evan, age 9, and Drew, age 6, out of trouble. . How long have you lived on the LES? Since 1985, though I lived on Avenue A and 4th Street from 1963 to 1971. |
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