The New York Public Library has debuted an amazing new online tool that makes it a whole lot easier to view photos from the institution's huge digital archive. OldNYC allows you to zoom in and out neighborhood-by-neighborhood, block-by-block to...
If you walk by the Tenement Museum today, you'll notice some activity other than the usual tour groups gathering on the sidewalk. The Lower East Side Business Improvement District and local artist Kim Sillen have teamed up to transform...
Lower East Side History Month gets underway tomorrow with a huge variety of cultural events from many different neighborhood organizations. We'll be highlighting many of them in the next 30 days.
On Sunday, there's an opening reception for "East Village:...
Coming up in May, it's the second annual Lower East Side History Month, a celebration of the neighborhood's rich cultural contributions. More than 80 organizations and businesses have come together to offer live performances, exhibits, gallery and walking tours, talks,...
Holocaust survivors and their families were honored yesterday at the Manny Cantor Center in a Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) program commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Buchenwald. Six different survivors (or family members of the survivors) from...
After the recent departure of the Sleepy's mattress store on Delancey Street, the old shadow from the former Ratner's Delicatessen sign was exposed, triggering many residents' memories of the old kosher dairy. Thanks to Lo-Down reader Jesse Ash for sending along this poem and the link to a great NY Public Library archive of Ratner's menu from 1987.
Editor' note: The St. Patrick's Day Parade kicks off on 5th Avenue later this morning. So it seems like a good time to re-publish this informative piece from the LES History Project's Eric Ferrara recalling the parade's Lower Manhattan...
The folks at the Chatham Square Library are hosting what looks to be an interesting program about the poetry left by Chinese immigrants on the walls of Angel Island and Ellis Island during the early 20th Century.
Librarian and composer...
If you grew up on the Lower East Side, old images of the neighborhood tend to trigger a flood of memories. But even people who don't have direct family roots on the LES can feel a connection to the...
Here's an event from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation that isn't on the Lower East Side -- but it concerns an issue very much relevant to this neighborhood and to New York City as a whole. See...
