Avenue of The Immigrants
To honor the 2004 co-naming of Allen Street to “The Avenue of the Immigrants”, HSC worked with local residents, cultural organizations, and Ground Up students at M.S. 131 to create an installation on the Allen Street malls. The two-year long project celebrated a broad range of immigrants, artists, activists, and even buildings that have contributed to the rich cultural history and diversity of Manhattan's Lower East Side communities. "Avenue of the Immigrants" was designed to strengthen the community led effort to reclaim the Allen and Pike Street corridors.
Read more about this topic: Hester Street Collaborative
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Of linen, go the chanting choristers,
The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . .”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
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