Avenue C Cultural Corridor Green Map

A true "Puertorriqueño" or "Boricua" cafe, enjoy traditional foods (and sometimes, the music) of Puerto Rico!  This cafe and Rossy's (Dominican cuisine) around the corner are neighborhood favorites. 

This is really a small farm! So much delicious food comes from these plots, from many different cultural traditions. Campos celebrates the seasons with outstanding performance and events, from Aztec Dancers to Opera - see camposcommunitygarden.org/ for details! 

There's a historic mural over the gate of this flower garden that reminds us of the struggle for community gardens and their importance to the wellbeing of the community.  Find out more of the story and join an event at carmenpabongarden.org/

Where does the community get its juice? This behemoth uses natural gas and other fossil fuels. Just a little bit is renewable now, but the next five years will change the energy balance for good, we hope! Check out the LES Power Green Map for nearby energy alternatives.

Look to the east, it's an art outpost with its own little plaza, set back from Ave C between 11 & 12th Streets

A wonderful sight in any season! "Kenkeleba House is a non-profit art gallery dedicated to celebrating and presenting the visual aesthetic and cultural legacy of African American artists and other artists of color"   kenkeleba.orgIn addition to the sculpture garden on East 3rd St just east of Avenue B, there's also the Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba at 219 East 2nd Street.

Design and Reuse with shipping containers. This is an eyecatching office, please  visit lot-ek.com/

Treat yourself to a delightful stroll through this maze-like and amazing garden!  Kudos! Salsa and beautiful musicians and dancers extend the delight. We love the seasonal sign, what's blooming!

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Stretching from Avenue A to B between East 7th and East 10th streets is the historic and always convivial Tompkins Square Park. Amazing music and community scene here in all seasons. Stars among the wildlife there, beloved Red tailed Hawks and Squirrels with black, brown and grey coats can be spotted on the lawns and in the majestic American Elms.  Skate park, basketball courts, gym, ping pong tables, dog run, Sunday Greenmarket and compost dropoff, sacred Gaia Tree and the Temperance Monument, and more including the memorial marker for the Slocum disaster.  The Viele Map (1867) reveals the extent of the salt marsh and tidal creeks Tompkins Square Park was built upon, as seen in the cover photo here.  Love seeing all the new plantings and pollinators? Get involved with Friends of TSP!

Surrounded by green space cultivated by residents, there's an energy conscientious here that makes VET a leader among affordable housing buildings! There's already a combined heat and power system and a test of balcony solar, plus Equilbrium's concepts for more solar and a BESS (battery energy storage system), this 400+ unit Mitchell Lama building has cool plans for its future including becoming a NORC - Naturally Occurring Retirement Community - which brings in resources to help older people thrive. 

Terrific music venue in a historic building, nublu is a mainstay - nublu.netThis is where the sanitary small glass milk bottles were first made for schoolkids to prevent milk-borne illnesses.