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Sign LESPI's on-line petition for a new NYC Lower East Side historic district centered on the Tenement Museum. The LES is one of the historically most important areas of the country!

Save the date: June 30 is our and LESJC's "The Power of Place: The Lower East Side of Past and Present" walking tour. See HERE for info and tickets.

LESPI's "Lens on the Lower East Side" books on the East Village and Chinatown - beautiful collections of contemporary photos and histories of these neighborhoods - are available at McNally Jackson Booksellers; Museum of Chinese in America and Pearl River Mart (Chinatown book only); and The Source (EV book only).

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Check out more LESPI photos on our Flickr site, and archival to contemporary East Village / Lower East Side images on our Pinterest site!