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Join us for an illustrated lecture and book signing "The Decorated Tenement: How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age" at the landmark KKJ Synagogue in the historic Lower East Side, Wednesday November 6. For more info see HERE

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!

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

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