Lower East Side History Month is celebrated every year in May!
Founded 12 years ago in the hope that a shared celebration of our neighborhood would strengthen our sense of connection and community, celebrations proudly feature Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and other community histories of the LES as defined by its historical boundaries which includes the East Village, Chinatown, Two Bridges and Loisaida.
Each year, over 60 LES-based cultural and community groups, small businesses, and residents host a variety of public events, exhibits, tours, and learning opportunities, reminding ourselves of the deep, rich, diverse history of our neighborhood.
The People’s LES website at www.peoplesLES.org is the hub for all LES History Month content and events. The events calendar will be updated throughout April!
2026 Participating Organizations
3rd & B’zaar
6th & B Garden
8 Ball Community
ABC No Rio
Abrons Arts Center
Anthology Film Archives
Art Loisaida Foundation
Beacon Community Center
Bond Street Theatre
Book Club Bar
Chinatown Partnership
City Lore
Close Friends Collective
Cooper Square Committee
Creative Time
DUO Multicultural arts center (DMAC)
Dorill Initiative
Earth Celebrations
East Village Community Coalition
East Village Vintage Collective
Essex Market
East village independent merchants association (EVIMA)
FOURTH ARTS BLOCK (FABnyc)
Flower Power Herbs & Roots, Inc.
Gene Frankel Theatre
Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES)
Grand Street Settlement
Henry Street Settlement
Holographic Studios
IATI Theater
International Center of Photography (ICP)
Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum
KGB Bar & Red Room
La MaMa ETC
La Sirena Mexican folk art
LES YEARBOOK
Loisaida Open Streets Community CoalitioN (LOSCC)
Loisaida, Inc.
Lower East Side Partnership
Lower East Side Preservation Initiative (LESPI)
Manny Cantor Center
Mencius Society for the Arts
Merchant’s House Museum
Middle Collegiate Church
Museum at Eldridge Street
Museum of Reclaimed Urban SpacE (MoRUS)
Nazareth Housing
New York Marble Cemetery
New York Theatre Workshop
Office of Council Member Christopher Marte
Office of Council Member Harvey Epstein
Piragua Art Space
Ray’s Candy Store
Relative Arts
Swiss Institute
The Clemente
The Loisaida Foundry inc
The Performance Project @ University Settlement
The Tenement Museum
The Ukrainian Museum
Theater for the New City
Think!Chinatown
Tompkins Square Library
University Settlement
Village Preservation
Whitney Browne Photography
WOW Café Theater
