Community Organizations

photos courtesy of Grand St. SettlementFive hundred community youth and their families will turn out for Grand Street Settlement's 3rd Annual Lower East Side Youth Day at P.S.142 on the corner of Delancey and Attorney Streets. The Youth...

Don't miss tomorrow night's Tenement Talk, at the Tenement Museum, at 6:30p, with Michael Rosen. He recently wrote a book called What Else But Home: Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse.  It's...

This week I found the new tile floor is almost complete at the Essex Street Market, and they are preparing to re-open the seating area at the North end.  Speaking of the North end of the market, I...

                                                Courtesy of Zeva Bellel and Paris By Appointment Only.We received a nice submission from Zeva Bellel, "an American journalist born and bred in Brooklyn, who has been living in Paris for the last ten years". She is...

This morning city officials will break ground on the new Hester Street Playground in Sara D. Roosevelt Park. Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, Avi Schick, chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., and Council member Alan Gerson will be there...

A group takes an informal Tai Chi class next to the running track at East River Park.  Nearby, construction continues on the East River Prominade. 

Damaris Reyes is the executive director of Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES), an influential neighborhood housing and preservation organization. Recently, we sat down with Reyes for a wide-ranging conversation on topics such as the gentrification of the LES,...

Teenager Shaquana Gardner was presented with an honor this morning by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, in recognition of her academic accomplishments and inspiring life story. Gardner won a scholarship from the Henry Street Settlement, in part, for her moving...

As we reported yesterday, the famed Guss' Pickles, is moving out of the Lower East Side after 89 years.  In our video below, owner Pat Fairhurst gives us some background on Guss' and tells us why she is compelled...

Hudson Street Papers moved from the West Village to Orchard Street four years ago. We were concerned to see a nice neighborhood business like Hudson Street Papers, on Orchard and Stanton, close shop a few weeks ago.  It seems there...