LESPI

Working Hard to Preserve the East Village, Chinatown, and the Lower East Side

Pell Street
Doyers Street
Doyers Street
Columbus Park
Pell Street
James Street
Oliver Street
Oliver Street
Broome Street
Allen Street
Broome Street
Broome Street
Broome Street
Division Street
Division Street
Grand Street
East 10th Street
St. Mark’s Place
East 12th Street
East 10th Street
St. Mark’s Place

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Website is under redevelopment – please bear with us!

New York City Hall

Watch the videos of the NY City Council Candidate Forums on Preservation and Planning for District 1 (roughly Lower East Side / Chinatown / Lower Manhattan), and District 2 (roughly East Village and to the north) – HERE. And don’t forget to VOTE in the NYC primaries June 22, this election will have a strong impact on NYC’s future.

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Advocacy

Help fight the Mayor’s plan for a massive upzoning of Soho/Noho – send an automated letter to your local elected official HERE

ERP’s Tennis Ctr. Comfort Station (foreground), 1939

Help save the East River Park’s historic Track House and Tennis Center Comfort Station, now threatened with demolition as part of the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project. Sign the Petition:

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