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Lower East Side Resources on the Web
Asian Americans for Equality (AAFE) is a community-based, nonprofit organization
founded in 1974 to advocate for equal opportunities for Asian Americans. AAFE seeks to improve the quality of life for immigrant communities
throughout New York City. Serving an estimated 20,000 people annually, AAFE's programs and services include housing development, homeownership,
comprehensive social services, civil rights, economic development, and technical assistance.
Bellevue Hospital Center, America's oldest public hospital, was opened in 1736 and has
grown from six beds to over 1,000. The country's first maternity ward, hospital-based ambulance service and emergency pavilion were all located
at Bellevue. Bellevue's innovations include a microsurgery center, a regional center for brain and spinal cord injuries and comprehensive
pediatric services.
Beth Israel Medical Center is a 1,368-bed,
full-service tertiary teaching hospital that was founded on Manhattan's Lower East Side before the turn of the 20th century. Beth Israel
originally was dedicated to serving a vulnerable population in that community. Now a century later, the Medical Center serves individuals and
families from every walk of life throughout New York City and beyond.
Cabrini Medical Center is a
voluntary hospital, sponsored by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Center draws its life-giving purpose from the mission
of the Sponsors who strive to communicate the compassionate caring, healing love which God has for all, especially for the poor and the
suffering.
Coalition for Hispanic Family Services is a community-based comprehensive family service agency, serving North Brooklyn and adjacent
communities. Its goal is to empower children, youth, and families with opportunities for success and self-reliance while reinforcing their sense
of cultural and self identity. This is achieved through a holistic, culturally competent, family based approach.
Cooper Square Committee is a nonprofit, community-based
organization that works to preserve affordable housing in the Cooper Square area of Manhattan's East Village/Lower East Side.
Educational Alliance is beginning its second century of services.
The Educational Alliance offers educational and cultural programs as well as services which address almost every conceivable human problem and
need — aging, drug abuse, early childhood, homelessness, parenting, and mental health.
The Fortune Society is a not-for-profit community-based organization dedicated to educating the public about prisons, criminal justice issues, and the root causes of crime. They also help ex-prisoners and at-risk youth break the cycle of crime and incarceration through a broad range of services.
God's Love We Deliver's mission is to improve the health and well-being of men,
women, and children living with HIV/AIDS by preparing and delivering fresh, nutritious, high-quality meals to people living with HIV/AIDS who are
unable to provide or prepare meals for themselves. It also provides HIV-specific nutrition education and counseling to its clients and other
individuals living with HIV/AIDS, families affected by the epidemic, care providers, and other service organizations.
Gouverneur Healthcare Services has been meeting the healthcare needs
of New Yorkers for more than a century. Located in Manhattan's Lower East Side and accessible by mass transportation from most
parts of New York City, Gouverneur operates a 210-bed Nursing Facility and provides comprehensive ambulatory care services at several
easy-to-reach locations.
Grand Street Settlement provides residents of the Lower East Side with the tools and
support they need to overcome challenging circumstances and build productive lives and futures. Its culturally relevant programs and services
assist more than 5,000 area residents of all ages annually — from toddlers in Early Head Start and Day Care to school-age youth, young adults,
and senior citizens.
Greenwich House is a nonprofit community organization founded in 1902 in the settlement
house tradition. Today, it provides a distinct array of cultural, educational, health, social, medical, and recreational services at eight
locations in and around Greenwich Village.
Hamilton-Madison House is a voluntary, non-profit settlement house dedicated to
improving the quality of life of its community, primarily those in the Two Bridges/Chinatown area of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Since its
establishment in 1898, Hamilton-Madison House has fostered social well-being among our most vulnerable populations: children, the elderly, the
ill, handicapped, new immigrants, refugees and the unemployed. Our unique professional experience in working with Asian Americans has led to the
expansion of service citywide.
Henry Street Settlement was founded in 1893 by Lillian Wald to help build better lives for
the inhabitants of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Today, a community mental health clinic, a battered women's shelter, transitional residences for
homeless families and single women, day care centers, a senior center, arts-in-education programming, home care initiatives, and a broad spectrum
of educational, employment, recreational, camping, community service, after-school, counseling, and leadership development programs for youth are
all a part of the Henry Street Settlement.
The Hispanic Federation is a membership organization of Latino health and human
services agencies serving Hispanics in the tri-state region. The Hispanic Federation's mission is to build and strengthen community-based
organizations that provide Latinos with a host of services, including immigration services, health care, economic development, job training, AIDS
prevention, youth services, leadership development, and housing.
<--Loisaida Inc. is a community-based organization founded in 1979 to facilitate access to education, training & employment opportunities to ensure the overall improvement & economic development of the Loisaida area.
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Lower East Side offers a wealth of information on the Lower East Side: its history, shopping, restaurants, cultural events, walking tours, press, and transportation.
Lower East Side Family Union is a
voluntary neighborhood-based agency, the goal of which is to reach out to and empower families and to enhance the quality of family life through
the delivery of culturally sensitive services.
Lower East Side Tenement Museum's mission is to promote tolerance and historical perspective
through the presentation and interpretation of the variety of immigrant and migrant experiences on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
New York Downtown Hospital delivers state-of-the-art healthcare
with the intimate attention and compassion of a community hospital. As the closest acute care hospital to the 600,000 people who work and live in
Lower Manhattan, their mission is to serve the people who comprise the diverse business and residential communities of Wall Street, Chinatown,
SoHo, TriBeCa, Battery Park City and the Lower East Side.
The Osborne Association offers opportunites for individuals who have been in conflict with the law to transform their lives through innovative, effective, and replicalbe programs that serve the community by reducing crime and its human and economic costs.
Project Renewal's mission is to care for
and help to rehabilitate homeless men and women in New York City, focusing efforts on the most fragile and under-served of the city's indigent
population — people who, in addition to being without a home, also suffer disabilities — especially mental illness, AIDS, and addiction to drugs
or alcohol.
Puerto Rican Family Institute (PRFI)
is a nonprofit, multi-program, family-oriented health and human service agency, the mission of which is to prevent family disintegration and
enhance the self-sufficiency of the Latino community by offering a comprehensive array of social and health care services that are culturally
and linguistically relevant.
Roberto Clemente Family Guidance Center provides individual/family/group counseling and
psychotherapy for families under stress due to incarceration problems.
Selling the Lower East Side Companion is the companion site to the book, Selling the
Lower East Side: Culture, Real Estate, and Resistance in New York City, by Christopher Mele. The site contains text, images, and hyperlinks
to information pertaining to a century of change on the Lower East Side.
St. Vincent's Manhattan is a 758-bed acute-care facility that both cherishes its
151-year history of community service, and offers some of the finest tertiary care and specialty programs in the country.
Third Street Music School Settlement , founded in 1894, continues to
nurture the imaginations of children through high quality music, dance and visual arts instruction. Each year, the School serves some 3,500
students, including 1,500 in its Young People's Program and 2,000 in its MILES (Music Instruction on the Lower East Side) Program in the public
schools.
University Settlement Society, founded in 1886, is America's first settlement
house. Located on New York's Lower East Side, the Settlement assists immigrants and other low-income people with a full network of programs.
These include adult literacy classes, mental health counseling, day care, case management for the formerly homeless, recreational and educational
activities for school children, and a summer day camp, senior center, arts program, and credit union.
Women's Prison Association (WPA), a nonprofit organization, was founded in
1844 by Abigail Hopper Gibbons and other visionary women, to create opportunities for change in the lives of women prisoners, ex-prisoners, and
their families. WPA provides programs through which women acquire the life skills necessary to end their involvement in the criminal justice
system and to make positive, healthy choices for themselves and their families.
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