Updates from the Lower East Side History Project
From the Lower East Side History Project
New! LES Article Database
You want history? You got history. We are accumulating an unprecedented article-base which, when complete, will contain just about anything you need to know about the Lower East Side over the last 1,000 years. You can browse and comment on articles, and even listen to the article read back to you if you’re feeling lazy. This is a work in progress, and will be continuously updated — we have six-years worth of active research to share with the world and other goodies coming to the website:
http://leshp.org/history
New! LESHP Membership
Get a fancy LESHP Member Card and receive free tours and discounts at local theaters, businesses and restaurants — all while supporting our valuable mission of research and education. All donations are 100% tax-deductible and memberships start at only $25 for students and seniors or $40 for individuals. More benefits coming soon:
http://leshp.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=84&Itemid=83
New! Fall Tour Schedule
We have been getting fantastic feedback from our new tours this fall like the Fourth Ward, Creating Bohemia, African-American Experience, Movie & TV Tour, and others. If you haven’t checked out the new line-up/schedule yet, here it is:
http://leshp.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=36&Itemid=64
NYC Trivia Rumble
Friday, November 6, 2009 – $6 min donation
6:00pm at the Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, NY NY 10012
Compete for prizes and prestige against other neighborhood know-it-alls at our popular monthly trivia event:
http://leshp.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49&Itemid=57
LESHP Blog
It has been a big month for us. We had a successful weekend providing tours of the East Village for Open House New York; Joyce Mendelsohn gave a wonderfully insightful presentation at the visitor center; I gave lectures at the Tenement Museum on the Sicilian Mafia, the New-York Historical Society on the history of vice and crime in NYC, the Bowery Mission for their 100 Year Anniversary, and sat on a panel with iconic preservationist Doris Diether at Dixon Place. If you missed any of it, check out our blog for these stories and other news, events and tid-bits:
http://evhp.blogspot.com/
Upcoming Events
Monday, November 2, 2009 – 7:00pm – Free
A presentation on the Jewish and Italian mob of the Lower East Side w/ Eric Ferrara
Blue Stockings, 172 Allen St
http://bluestockings.com/events/
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 – 6:30pm – Free/RSVP
The Gotham Center Presents: The Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited
Panel discussion with author Joyce Mendelsohn, photojournalist Clayton Patterson, the Tenement Museum’s Annie Polland, LESHP’s Eric Ferrara
CUNY-Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave
http://www.gothamcenter.org
Expansion?
We are looking for leads on a small gallery (or suitable) space to partner with in the area who would benefit from our foot-traffic. We have a growing collection of rare LES photographs, maps, displays and memorabilia that we are looking to display and possibly sell reproductions of, among other ideas. Please contact me with any leads.
Suggestions
Check these out — it is worth it.
Knickerbocker Village Blog
Fantastic site about the old “Fourth Ward” district of the Lower East Side, by native LES’er David Bellel
http://knickerbockervillage.blogspot.com/
NoshWalks
Myra Alperson is a veteran guide and offers one of the most popular food tours in the city. Upcoming tours include East Harlem, Sunnyside and Flushing. Want to try something different? Check this out.
http://noshwalks.com/
Clayton Patterson: LES Captured Photo Exhibit
Alfie Presents Gallery, 157 Rivington Street, Through November 8, 2009
Veteran LES photojournalist Clayton Patterson shares some original photos from his private collection, book “Front Door,” and film “The Documentarian.”
http://www.alifepresents.com/
TSP Halloween Freakfest
Sunday Oct. 25th, 2-6pm, Tompkins Square Park
Presented by The Shadow and PMS Productions
http://evhp.blogspot.com/2009/10/we-rocommend-tsp-halloween-freakfest.html
“The Lower East Side: Remembered and Revisited”
Updated and revised version of the popular guide book by Joyce Mendelsohn (Columbia University Press)
http://www.amazon.com/Lower-East-Side-Remembered-Revisited/dp/0231519435
“Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville”
Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure by David Freeland (NYU Press)
http://www.nyupress.org/books/Automats_Taxi_Dances_and_Vaudeville-products_id-11030.html
“A Guide to Gangsters, Murderers and Weirdos of New York City’s Lower East Side”
New book by Eric Ferrara
A block by block guide to the criminal and colorful history of the Lower East Side (The History Press)
http://gmwbook.com/