Community Organizations

There's plenty to do this Halloween Weekend.  Along with our Halloween Guide, our Weekend Music Picks and the last weekend of the season for the Hester Street Fair, here are a few more special events you might want to...

New Yorkers love their Halloween parties and the Lower East Side is already all dressed up and stepping out in costume.  Here are a few choice events happening in the hood: Our friend, the Giant Knish (a.k.a., Laura Silver) will...

This just in from the Hester Street Fair: As many of you may already know, the Hester Street Fair will be closing down for the season this Sunday, October 31st... We'll be back open next year in April, but there...

L.E.S. resident Jac Zagoory sent us these photos from It's My Park Day in Gulick Park.  The event was hosted by Friends of Gulick Park and included pumpkin painting, bulb planting, face painting and a ping-pong tournament.

On Sunday the Seward Park Cooperative is throwing a big Halloween party for the whole neighborhood. Starting at 2pm, there will be a parade down East Broadway. A carnival at the co-op begins at 3. It'll include a pumpkin patch,...

Council member Rosie Mendez has made a contribution to the viral online video project "It Gets Better." The project was started by syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage last month as a response to a recent rash of teen...

This Sunday will be the last of Arts for Art's "In Gardens" concert and poetry series for the season. Musicians will play at First Street Garden on 1st street between 1st avenue and 2nd avenue. The Concerts are free,...

Steve Herrick, executive director of the Cooper Square Committee, passed along info about the organization's big gala coming up Monday night: The Cooper Square Committee, a non-profit tenants rights and housing preservation organization, is holding our 51st Anniversary Fundraising Gala...

Across the city on Saturday, residents who care about open space will be celebrating "It's My Park Day."   In our neighborhood, the Friends of Gulick Park have all kinds of fun activities planned, including pumpkin painting, bulb planting...

This afternoon, the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. will be holding a public meeting to solicit input about a $200 million pot of federal money to be dispersed in the months ahead. Today's event takes place in the Assembly Hearing...