Hester Street Collaborative

Giacinto Frisillo, a contributor at The Lo-Down, has been volunteering with the Hester Street Collaborative as part of their Paths to Pier 42 project on the East River waterfront between Montgomery and Cherry streets. She reports on the progress...

This Sunday, August 7, from 11-4, Asian Americans for Equality hosts its annual Chinatown Summer Streets Festival. Held in Columbus Park and along Bayard between Baxter and Mott Streets, the festival promotes Chinatown businesses and highlights the cultural and historical...

The heat is on! We're looking at a high of 96 today, with some afternoon clouds. The Jewish holiday of Shavuot is underway, so it's going to be a low key couple of days in sections of the neighborhood. ...

The Hester Street Collaborative, the Friends of Gulick Park, and the Design Trust for Public Space are inviting local residents to partake in food, drinks and ping pong in Luther Gulick Park tomorrow night. The Design Trust holds potlucks in various...

Last week, Hester Street Collaborative (HSC) held its annual benefit party.  Pictured above: NYC Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, HSC Executive Director Anne Frederick and William Castro, the Parks Dept.'s Manhattan Borough commissioner. Benepe was the evening's special honoree. Hester...

Tonight the Hester Street Collaborative is hosting a screening featuring the work of students in its "Ground Up" Program at P.S. 134. You'll be able to see 11 stop-motion films representing the life cycles of plants the students have...

On Friday, the Hester Street Collaborative unveiled this year's Lantern Installation, which is becoming a Chinese Lunar New Year transition on the Lower East Side. The solar-powered lanterns, made by kids at M.S. 131, the Chinatown YMCA and Asian...

A big honor for the Hester Street Collaborative (HSC). The Lower East Side non-profit is a recipient of this year's Union Square Awards.  Since 2002, HSC has been dedicated to "improving the physical environment" in this neighborhood and throughout...

Last week, we reported on Mall-terations, a temporary art installation to beautify the crumbling Allen/Pike Street pedestrian walkways and focus attention on the need for improvements.  The project was spearheaded by Hester Street Collaborative, a non-profit organization which helped...

Hester Street Collaborative is an organization that believes in improving public spaces in our neighborhood any way it can. Yesterday leaders of the LES non-profit gathered with city officials and four talented artists to unveil "Mall-terations," a temporary exhibition...