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ACTION ALERT: Help LESPI defeat the NY State Legislature's proposed bill to allow demolition of newly landmarked religious properties. NY State residents: click at the link below to learn more and to send an automated email to your elected official: secure.everyaction.com/GHkmZo7QCUOVXt….

LES residents & others: Don't miss the City Council Candidate Forum on Preservation Issues for Districts 1 (4/30) and 2 (4/23), 6PM via Zoom, see below. This is an important primary and election! See also villagepreservation.org/event/2025-com… and villagepreservation.org/event/2025-com…

LESPI is excited to offer a “History of the Lower East Side in Six Buildings” walking tour on May 2 & May 4. For further info and to register for the Friday May 2 tour see mas.org/events/history… & for the Sunday May 4 tour see mas.org/events/history…. We hope to see you there!

Join us for a fascinating walking tour, “Warriors Seweckenamo and Kimlau: From Lenape Village to Chinatown” on Sunday, May 4 at 1:00pm, presented by LESPI Advisor Bayer Lee. For further info & to register for this free event, see mas.org/events/warrior… We hope to see you there!

Don't miss the City Council Candidate Forum on Preservation Issues for District 2, this Wednesday 4/23, and District 1 next Wednesday 4/30, at 6PM via Zoom. For more info & to register, see villagepreservation.org/event/2025-com… for District 1, & villagepreservation.org/event/2025-com… for District 2.

In case you missed last night's NY City Council District 2 Candidates Forum on Preservation Issues, you can now see it on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=HuLsg4…. This was a very enlightening program!

Join us this Thursday May 1 for a May Day protest calling for a fairer New York, so that our city accommodates all of us. 12:00pm at City Hall (Broadway & Murray Sts.) — we hope to see you there!

Reminder: don't miss the City Council Candidates Forum on Preservation Issues for District 1, tonight, Wednesday 4/30, at 6PM via Zoom. For more info & to register, see villagepreservation.org/event/2025-com….

LESPI VP Deborah Wye led a wonderful walking tour for LESPI today, the History of the Lower East Side in Six Buildings, where she not only discussed the 6 buildings LESPI has proposed for NYC landmarking, but the LES's rich & diverse history over the last 2 centuries. Wonderful!

In case you missed Wednesday's "City Council Forum on Preservation Issues," you can now watch it on YouTube at youtube.com/watch?v=HYZOkj…. This was a very informative format for learning about the candidates' views on landmarking, upzoning, development and the like. Important stuff!

Despite some showers, we had a fantastic tour of Chinatown yesterday, led by Dr. Bayer Lee, a LESPI Adviser. The tour, titled “Warriors Seweckenamo and Kimlau: From Lenape Village to Chinatown,” wound its way through Chinatown's historic core, ending in Kimlau Square. Wonderful!

The weekend of May 17-18 is the New York Landmarks Conservancy's 15th Annual Sacred Sites Open House, where our city's & state's beautiful historic religious properties open their doors for tours and events. For more info, including on the sites, see nylandmarks.org/sacred-sites-o…

Be sure to stop by and see us LESPI volunteers tabling this Sunday May 11 at the Greek Jewish Festival on Broome Street. There'll be live music, great food, fun festivities and tours of the historic Kehila Kenosha synagogue. We'll be there from 12-4pm — we hope to see you!

Reminder: Be sure to stop by & see us LESPI volunteers tabling this Sunday May 11 at the Greek Jewish Festival on Broome Street. There'll be live music, great food, fun festivities & tours of the historic Kehila Kenosha synagogue. We'll be there from 12-4pm — we hope to see you!

What a beautiful day it was yesterday to table at the Kehila Kedosha Janina Greek Jewish Festival on Broome Street. We chatted with a lot of passersby, including a few friends that visited, and gathered almost 150 petition signatures for LES preservation. Excellent!

Important panel discussion tomorrow evening on #YIMBY and the displacement of lower income New Yorkers. To rsvp see bit.ly/stop-yimby-pan…

Check out the latest LES preservation news from LESPI, here: prod.cdn.everyaction.com/emails/van/EA/…

Some great, great news, it's about time the City saw the light here! See nytimes.com/2025/06/23/nyr…

Join us Bastille Day, July 14 for a Zoom talk on “French Flats,” later to be known as apartments (where many of us now live).  Many still survive downtown! To register see villagepreservation.my.site.com/s/event-detail…. LESPI is proud to cosponsor with Village Preservation Village Preservation (GVSHP), VSNY & East Village Community Coalition.

In case you missed our "Kleindeutschland and the Genesis of the German-American Church" lecture last month, it's now available on YouTube at youtube.com/@lowereastside…. We strongly recommend checking it out!