David Peel

David Peel

male
from New York City, The Pope Smokes Dope, major label censorship, yippies, Early punk groups, Pre-punk groups…lowereastside
David Peel is a New York-based musician who first recorded in the late 1960s, with Harold Black and Billy Jo White performing as The Lower East...

Alan Gerson

male
New York City Council member, Little Italy, New York City Council, Tribeca, greenwich village, lowereastside
Alan Gerson is a Democratic member of the New York City Council, elected in 2001 to represent the 1st council district in Manhattan. The district...
Taylor Mead

Taylor Mead

male, 84 years old
Warhol superstar, east village, Excavating Taylor Mead, Coffee and Cigarettes, The Flower Thief, beat…lowereastside
Taylor Mead (born December 31 1924 in Grosse Pointe, …
Lillian Wald

Lillian Wald

female, deceased (1940)
death by lightning, child, German, ORPHANAGE, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Henry Street Settlement…Lower East Side, Manhattan, lowereastside
Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940) was an American nurse and social worker, most active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Wald was born into a...
Jeffrey Lewis

Jeffrey Lewis

male, 34 years old
State University of New York at Purchase alumni, Jack Lewis, Adam Green, anti-folk, Watchmen, East River…lowereastside
Jeffrey Lewis (born November 20, 1975 in New York City) is an American Anti-folk singer/songwriter and comic-book artist. He attended State...
Todd P.

Todd P.

male
williamsburg, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, The Fall, The Slits, Bushwick, Brooklyn, Bushwick…lowereastside
Todd P (aka Todd Patrick) is an organizer and promoter of underground DIY and indie rock shows and parties in New York City. Patrick was born in...
Ed Sanders

Ed Sanders

male, 70 years old
tax resister, New York University, avant-garde, Publisher, beat, hippie…lowereastside
Ed Sanders was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He dropped out of the University of Missouri in 1958 and hitchhiked to New York City's Greenwich...
Seth Tobocman

Seth Tobocman

male, 51 years old
Comics artist, World War 3 Illustrated, anti-globalist, Lower East Side, Manhattan, squatting, anti-war…lowereastside
Seth Tobocman (1958-) is a radical comic artist who has been a fixture of Manhattan's Lower East Side since 1978. Tobocman is best known for his...
Anzia Yezierska

Anzia Yezierska

female, deceased (1970)
Red Ribbon on a White Horse, sweatshops, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, Pinsk, wasp…lowereastside
Anzia Yezierska (c. 1880 - 1970) was a novelist born in Pinsk, Congress Poland, Russian Empire and immigrated to New York City. Her family arrived...
Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart

male, 37 years old
American, stuyvesant high school, leningrad, lowereastside, oberlin college, Oberlin College alumni…Lower Manhattan
Gary Shteyngart (born 1972) is an American writer born in Leningrad, USSR (he alternately calls it "St. Leningrad" or "St. Leninsburg"). Much of...