Celebrating 20 years of service to our neighborhood! 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! […]
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Join our Jane’s Walk! Navigate & Advocate: How to Use 311 to Make Your Neighborhood Better! 3pm Sat May 4
NYC 311 service requests are the key to reporting conditions and accessing services provided by the City of New York. From filling potholes to planting empty tree beds, fixing broken street lights or stopping illegal construction, the city’s response depends on your 311 requests. Over the course of just a few East Village blocks, we’ll […]
Car-Free Earth Day & LUNGS Spring Awakening 11am-4pm Sat Apr 20!
Walk, bike or roll to the Ave B Open Street (8-10th Streets) for Car-Free Earth Day & LUNGS’ Spring Awakening! 9:45am Birding for Beginners: Join Kellie Quiñones (she/her) to explore the birds that migrate through NYC in the spring, on their way to their breeding grounds. Our BIPOC neighbors are especially welcome! Performances from eGALitarian […]
E-Waste Recycling in Tompkins Square Park! 10am-2pm Sun Apr 14
Thanks to our friends at the Lower East Side Ecology Center! Avenue A between 9th and 10th Streets. Please note LESEC can no longer accept media, batteries or other items that can be recycled at stores that sell them. See their post for more details! […]
Retail Diversity
EVCC continues to support essential retail diversity across the neighborhood. Part of EVCC’s mission is to help preserve the cultural fabric of our community by supporting and advocating for independent businesses. Curious about how the pandemic impacted local business? Read our report: Crisis and Adaptation: Storefront Trends in the East Village, 2019-2021. Our report on Formula […]
Sustainability
Our community gardens and walkable, tree-lined streets are one of the reasons people love living in the East Village. Some of our active East Village sustainability projects and efforts include: Community Composting EVCC continues to advocate for the return of the curbside compost pickup program, which is mandated to be citywide by October 2024. […]
Preserving the culture of the East Village
The EVCC works alongside our coalition partners to expand Historic Districts and Individual Landmarks protections in our community. Each of our neighborhood’s historic buildings has a story to tell. […]