Tompkins Square Park, every summer Saturday and Sunday! June 14-15 is first weekend of JC Pro Classic Women’s Basketball. Sign up for a place in five age groups, from 10 and Under to College/Open. Info on league’s IG: jcproclassicbasketball […]
Please join us for an evening at the Trinity Lower East Side Garden and Community Room! Enjoy music, refreshments and light bites from our favorite East Village restaurants and purveyors, meet our board members, hear about our latest work and share your interests. Rain or shine! […]
Join us at the 38th Annual Loisaida Festival 12-5pm Sun May 25! Stop by booth 50-9E on the east side of Avenue C between 9th & 10th Streets! We’ll be sharing our 2025 community survey and chatting with neighbors about what’s happening in our neighborhood. […]
12pm-4pm, Saturday May 10, Ave B from 7th-9th Sts! Activities on the street will include Open Arts LES and LUNGS’ Spring Awakening, with music, arts workshops, a seed giveaway, a community garden tour and pony rides! Earth Celebrations Ecological City Pageant will process through after their stop at La Plaza Cultural at 12:45. Ecological City […]
1-4pm Sunday, May 4. Join Partnerships for Parks and the LES Ecology Center to help activate and beautify our park with a Watercolor Leaf Painting workshop led by local artist Jodie Niss, and learn how to care for street trees at a demonstration led by LESEC staff. Meet at the Slocum Memorial Fountain, just inside the newly renovated Field House. […]
Nowhere else in NYC is so much history, culture, and activity packed into such a tiny urban footprint. During this compact, comfortable stroll, we’ll learn about New York’s first dog run; the memorial to the greatest disaster in NYC before 9/11; the annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival; the American birth of Hare Krishna, and the open space where […]
Midnight on Sunday, April 13, is the (extended) deadline to nominate an “Unsung Hero” of the Lower East Side. Winners will be honored at the LES Community Hero Awards in May—which is Lower East Side History Month. Details here […]
Hiring NOW!….The New York Restoration Project, founded by actor/singer/comedian Bette Midler in 1995, is looking for a full-time Community Garden Engagement Manager to “cultivate connections, communications and transparency in support of our work in community gardens citywide.” Job starts April 29. Details here: […]
7-8:30pm Thu Feb 27 at Sixth Street Community Center, 638 East 6th Street…Town Hall Kick-Off to find THE COOLEST BLOCK IN THE LOWER EAST SIDE! Join experts from the LES Ecology Center to chat about its upcoming community street-tree stewardship contest and find out why greener streets are not only essential, but also rewarding—and discover […]
6:30-8pm Thu Feb 27 at FABnyc, 70 East 4th St, 1st floor….It’s Black History Month! Come and learn more about Black history on the LES—and specifically the topic of “Resisting Cultural Erasure”—from Black artists and historians Immanuel Oni (pictured), Debra Jeffreys-Glass, and Catherine Mbali Green-Johnson. Info here! […]
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