Community Organizations

E. River Waterfront Project design by SHoP ArchitectsImmigrant Social Services (ISS) announced Wednesday that it has joined forces with local ecologists and architects to create "This Is Our River", a free hands-on project for students at PS126, in...

Our friends at NYC Partnership for Parks are excited to announce the celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Manhattan Bridge, at the East River Park Ampitheater, Sunday, Oct. 4th at 7:00pm. TimeOut has more about the Centennial festivities here.

Eric Ferrara, author of Gangsters, Murderers and Weirdos of New York City's Lower East Side, will be doing a presentation/book signing at The Tenement Museum as part of their Tenement Talks series this evening at 6:30pm (108 Orchard...

From the Center For Architecture web site:David Mulkins, co-founder of the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, hosts the third installment of The Vanishing City, a community, historical, and preservation series by Dixon Place.  David will narrate a visual presentation of Bowery history, architecture, arts and...

 CHERP (Community Hooked on East River Park) will be holding it's monthly volunteer day tomorrow, September 26th in the DANCE OVAL (just north of Delancey Street, next to the tennis courts) in East River Park from 10:00am...

This weekend is jam-packed with fabulous events all over the Lower East Side. Our Lo-Down Picks:The Fourth Arts Block Festival & Block Party is this Saturday on E. 4th St. between Bowery and 2nd Ave. The festival is...

The Port Authority has agreed to drop plans to use Pier 42 (at the end of Montgomery Street) as a staging area for the construction of the World Trade Center site. According to a news release from Assembly Speaker...

"Tenement Talks", hosted by H.R. Britton this evening, includes four professional storytellers who will recount their experiences as urban children or tell us how they raised their own kids in the big city. Performers include Robin Bady, Jane LeCroy, DJ Hazard,...

Earlier this month, residents gathered in Luther Gulick Park on Delancey Street for a community day. The objective was to help galvanize the neighborhood to push for the revitalization of of the park, one of the city's most blighted...

As violence escalated on the Lower East Side this summer, there was a lot of talk about a lack of programs aimed at keeping teens and young adults off the streets and out of trouble. Aaron Daly knows a...