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!

Join us March 24 for a Book Talk: Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, 
the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes. For info and to register see HERE.

Watch LESPI’s free webinars on LES history and architecture on YouTube:

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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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