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Join a Community Arts Dialogue, See Queer Latinx Art, and More Before the Clock Strikes 2017

December 26, 2016 By Cassidy Dawn Graves

(Photo: Natalie Rinn)

Art Start Up!
Tuesday, December 27, 7 pm to 10 pm at Theater for the New City, RSVP by Email info@theaterforthenewcity.net to RSVP

This Tuesday, one of the last independent East Village art spaces still hangin’ on, Theater for the New City, will welcome a group of artists as well as an array community organizations to engage in a conversation about the East Village and Lower East Side arts scene. There’s a lot to survey: the current state of things, what’s missing, what improvements should be made to best suit the community the arts (hopefully) serve, and economic barriers that may be in place. That last one is sure to be a long conversation.

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Embittered By Corruption and Displacement, LES Neighbors Coalition Demands to See the Mayor

December 8, 2015 By Anneke Rautenbach

At the Chinatown coalition’s meeting (Photo: Anneke Rautenbach)

At an emotional Lower East Side town hall meeting on Saturday afternoon, hundreds of concerned residents, a number of small business owners, and representatives of community organizations were visibly upset. Instead of being met by Mayor Bill de Blasio himself, they were greeted by a representative from the administration. “We have been reaching out to him for months,” Jei Fong, a coalition representative, told B+B. “We personally invited him to this meeting. This is a real slap in the face.”

Tags: 421-a, activism, affordable housing, bill de blasio, chinatown, Coalition to Protect Chinatown & LES, community meeting, essex crossing, extell, LES, Lower East Side, mayor bill de blasio, National Mobilization Against Sweatshops, NMASS, politics, sheldon silver