Brick and Stone: Landmarking our Lower East Side Heritage

Former Fire Engine Company No. 15. Now Dale Jones Burch Neighborhood Center at Henry Street Settlement. 269 Henry St.(Photo: ©Ari Burling Creative)

On View: May 1 - June 30

Opening Reception: May 2 @ 2-5pm (Outdoor block party)

Where: Banner Exhibition on the outdoor Clemente building fence, on the corner of Rivington St. and Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002

Organized by: Lower East Side Preservation Initiative — LESPI

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 2 @ 2-5pm

Brick and Stone: Landmarking our Lower East Side Heritage invites you to read the LES through what still stands: health facilities, settlement houses, financial and religious institutions, firehouses, and schools that continue to hold the neighborhood’s memory in its architecture. This outdoor banner exhibition invites us to look again at the historic buildings that have carried the neighborhood’s memory across generations.

Presented by LESPI and The Clemente, this exhibition is part of Lower East Side History Month, the annual May celebration organized by FAB NYC, in which more than 60 neighborhood organizations, businesses, and residents host public events, exhibits, tours, and other opportunities to engage the area’s history.

LESPI is working to secure NYC landmark designation for the buildings featured at this exhibition, helping ensure that they remain tangible links to the community’s rich past and part of its vibrant future.

Join us for the outdoor opening ceremony on Suffolk Street, outside The Clemente, on May 2 from 2–5 PM. The exhibition is on view from May 1 through June 30.

Hosted by The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center.

Supported in part by Council Member Christopher Marte.