Make your gardens happy with FREE compost from LES Ecology Center! Bring your own containers or a cart to take home as much as you’d like! Shovels will be provided. Tompkins Square Park, 10am-1pm Sat Apr 4 Register on eventbrite! […]
Join our favorite data visualization team Data Vandals for the opening weekend of New York by the Numbers! Created as part of the MTA Vacant Unit Activation Program, the Data Vandals Newsstand is a vinyl-wrapped, public exhibition space where riders can see, touch, question, and add to the data that shapes their city. Opening 7-9pm Fri Apr […]
A special reading of Loisaida Lullaby by Kanielle M. Hernandez. On its illustrated pages live the legends of Loisaida — the people whose lives, laughter, and struggles shaped the culture of these streets. The event is for children of ALL ages! Signed copies of the book will be available for sale. 2-4pm at Piragua Art […]
Join us for a virtual program on the bicentennial of the birth of Oswald Ottendorfer (1826-1900), the visionary publisher and philanthropist who raised the profile of New York City’s Little Germany, advocated for reforms in the treatment of New York City’s German immigrants, and donated funds to build the landmark Ottendorfer Library! 6pm Thu Feb 26 Register […]
Celebrate the release of Japonica Brown-Saracino’s latest book, The Death and Life of Gentrification: A New Map of a Persistent Idea, at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space. The author will trace the roots of the term gentrification, how it has adapted over the years, and its growth into the cultural phenomenon it is today. […]
The mini-pool at Tompkins Square Park is in poor condition, and will be reconstructed with state funds as a larger in-ground pool. NYC Parks is soliciting community input on use of the pool area and adjacent courts. Most residents who attended the meeting asked that there be as little change as possible to the adjacent […]
Join legendary photographer and videographer Clayton Patterson, author Julian Voloj, as well as Maegan Dolan and Jesse Lambert (two of the book’s artists), for the release of Clayton, the first biography of this iconic artist intertwined with a rich history of the Lower East Side over the last forty-five years. 6:30-8:30pm Wed Jan 14 at City […]
The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space is hosting a discussion panel about the Lower East Side anarchist bookstores of the 1990’s. Join guest panelists including merchants from bookstores past, present, and future to learn more about the history of these radical bookstores. 5:00-7:30pm Thu Jan 8 at MoRUS, 155 Avenue C […]
Here’s another chance to catch the new digital restoration of William H. Whyte’s, THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES (1980)! Through Jan 8, at Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Avenue. Check Ticket availability. […]
Drop your holiday wreaths and trees at Mulchfest during park hours through Jan 11. Remove stands, ornaments and tinsel; just leave the trees, please! Drop off during chipping time (10am – 2pm Jan 10 or 11) and take home a bag of mulch! Through January 11th at Tompkins Square Park, 7th Street entrance, mid-block between […]
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