The 39th Annual Loisaida Festival, historically celebrated on the Sunday before Memorial Day, takes place this Sunday, May 24, 2026, from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM, spanning Avenue C / Loisaida Avenue from East 12th Street to East 5th Street.
Known as the Lower East...
On May 26th, Sure We Can and the Canal Street Research Association are holding a one-day, pop up redemption center at the Columbus Park Pavilion, where they will simulate the passage of the "Bigger Better Bottle Bill," and all...
HORT/CULTURE, the salon style "happenings" curated by Cactus Store and Nonhuman Teachers is back on the LES with their monthly live events at Nine Orchard. The Cactus Store is a landscape design studio based in LA, but the team...
Host Traven Rice talked with legendary street photographers Martha Cooper and Clayton Patterson at a live recording of The Lo-Down Culture Cast at their exhibition, Concrete Chronicles, at City Lore.
It was a full house at the City Lore gallery (56 E. 1st St.). The...
Join The Manhattan Clean Energy Hub: Connecting Manhattan Residents to Clean Energy and Savings (See Translation Below)
The Manhattan Clean Energy Hub is a free resource working to ensure that the transition to clean energy is one that all New Yorkers...
Seward Park Conservancy will host it's annual Bulb Planting Day this Saturday, October 25, 2025, starting at 9am.
The group promises to have coffee and snacks, Halloween treats, giveaways for kids, and more than 2,000 bulbs ready to be planted. They note,...
NYC Parks and NYC Department of Design and Construction are partnering with local organizations to host a Community Day celebrating the opening of East River Park Phase 1 this Sunday, September 28, from 12pm - 5pm. FAB NYC, GOLES,...
Photo: Mavis-Jay Sanders, Culinary Director of Community Kitchen with founder Mark Bittman
Food journalist, former New York Times recipe columnist and author of the renowned cookbook How To Cook Everything, Mark Bittman is creating a new type...
An interesting photo and video show -- inspired by The Artist's Way -- is currently running at Filmshop House 2025, which is one of the organizations in residence in the houses on Governors Island this summer. The show, titled "Artists' Ways," curated by filmmaker...
Lower East Side artist and activist Laura Nova spoke with The Lo-Down Culture Cast host Traven Rice about creating inter-generational projects with a wide array of people from the Lower East Side neighborhood.
Nova is an artist, educator, and...
