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While the Lower East Side continues to rise to its feet in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, neighborhoods that bore the more vicious brunt of the storm are still struggling to provide basic services and sustenance to their residents. This weekend,...

Here are today's volunteer/donation opportunities on the Lower East Side.  There are still needs in our neighborhood, but the focus  for a lot of aid groups has now shifted to the Rockaways, Staten Island, Red Hook and other harder...

At CAAAV's office on Hester Street lots of people are showing up with donations. They're now re-routing food and blankets to other harder hit areas such as Red Hook and the Rockaways. Volunteers here are still checking on seniors,...

Here's the food distribution site at the Henry Street Settlement HQ, 265 Henry Street. It's open until 3pm. No more volunteers needed at this location.

The power is back on here on the Lower East Side but there's still much to be done this weekend before the neighborhood returns to normalcy.  Volunteers are fanning out across the LES and Chinatown today, distributing meals and...

We've received many inquiries from folks wanting to volunteer their time and donate money and supplies. Here are a few requests for help that we have gathered; send details of other efforts to info@thelodownny.com and we will keep the list going. The...

We'll have a full list of volunteer opportunities in the neighborhood in a little while. But we wanted to pass along this from James Fuentes, who runs one of the Lower East Side's most highly regarded art galleries and...

This morning at Confucius Plaza, on the Bowery, volunteers are needed to distribute water. if you can help, report to 33 Bowery, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce office on the second floor,  at 10 a.m. There's also a need for...