LESHP director Eric Ferrara is featured with Italian American Museum founder Dr. Joseph Scelsa on the cover of this month’s Giornale Italo Americano — a popular and unique newspaper written in both Italian and English. Ferrara was in Little Italy on… Read More »Eric Ferrara makes cover of GIA newspaper
Thanks to the UK’s Daily Mail for mentioning LESHP in this article about a new BBC series called “Copper,” which is set in NYC’s Five Points in the 1860s. From the article: “The Lower East Side History Project today gives… Read More »LESHP mentioned in Daily Mail article about new BBC TV show
Thank you to Terence Confino and The Villager such a great article about LESHP. He just came off a stint as a media consultant for the Warner Brothers release of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” where he worked directly… Read More »The Villager profiles Lower East Side History Project
Thanks to Marc Santora for writing this timely article on the gentrification of the Bowery, and for including our quotes.The Skids? Not Hardly Written by Marc Santora Published March 18, 2011 New York Times BEFORE the Bowery bums and urban… Read More »LESHP mentioned in NY Times Article on the Bowery
Look out for “Jack the Ripper: The German Suspect” on National Geographic channel.For more than 120 years, the identity of the infamous Whitechapel murderer has remained unknown. Now, astonishing new evidence revealed by retired UK police detective Trevor Marriot claims… Read More »LESHP Helps NAT GEO Track Down “Jack the Ripper”