Community Organizations

During the summer, EV Grieve and DNA Info reported about a campaign by neighbors on East 1st Street to turn a rat infested lot into a community sculpture garden.  Since that time, members of the First Street Green Cultural...

In a sometimes tense two-and-a-half hour meeting last night, the Chinatown Working Group (CWG) chose new interim leaders, created a new committee to look at overhauling the organization and scheduled a vote on several "action plans" covering important neighborhood...

The Seward Park Library is offering a new film series called the LES Heritage Film Series. They will be screening historical documentary and feature films that were shot on location in lower Manhattan, on the first Tuesday of every month. Kicking off...

Louise W. Knight, author of the highly praised biography, Jane Addams: Spirit in Action, will be featured in the Tenement Talks series at the Tenement Museum this evening. Knight will be discussing Jane Addams' riveting story - she was...

During the summer, it looked like the Chinatown Working Group (CWG) was on the verge of finalizing a comprehensive neighborhood development proposal for submission to the city.  That was before a blow-up over the hiring of a planning consultant...

Have you got a computer, a television or, maybe, a cell phone to unload? Luck would have it the Lower East Side Ecology Center and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver are sponsoring an e-recycling event on Sunday. You can drop...

State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver released a press statement a short time ago calling on the city to dedicate revenues from Pier 36 to the "maintenance and upkeep of the East River Esplanade."   A private company, Basketball City, has...

We stopped by the Sukkot celebration at the M'Finda Kalunga Community Garden yesterday afternoon. And today K. Webster, the garden's co-chair, was nice enough to send us some photos from the event.  Click through to see scenes from the...

A reminder that tonight  Community Board 3 will be looking for input from both residents and bar owners about the criteria used to evaluate liquor licenses.  A similar meeting was held last month, but since so many people were...

Tonight at the Theater for the New City, two preservation groups are sponsoring an event titled "Past, Present and Future of the Mezritch Synagogue." For the past few years, the East Village Community Coalition, the Greenwich Village Society for...