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Topic: Loisaida


In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

  
  Loisaida Inc Executive Staff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
She is very committed to helping young people succeed; and finds working at Loisaida to be a challenging and exciting role at this point in her career journey.
Her work with Loisaida involves assisting out-of-school youth with job readiness and educational referrals, which include employment assistance, resume development, internships, and enabling them to achieve personal empowerment and financial independence.
Loisaida is very excited about her decision to join them in working with lower east side youth.
www.loisaidainc.org /ExecutiveStaff.htm   (1026 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Loisaida
By the middle of the 20th Century, Alphabet City was transitioning again, as thousands of Puerto Ricans began to settle in the neighborhood.
A number of important Nuyorican intellectuals, poets and artists called Loisaida home during the 1960s, 70s and 80s including Miguel Algarin and Miguel Piñero.
The Nuyorican Movement is an intellectual movement involving poets, writers, musicians and artists who are Puerto Ricans or of Puerto Rican descent and who live in New York and call themselves or are known as Nuyoricans.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Loisaida   (1056 words)

  
 The Book of Bags - English
There will also be images representing places where the bags were purchased, allowing us to see how these places have changed over the years (it may be possible to add photos of these districts, and even of the dealers).
Loisaida is overflowing with hundreds of more or less wild cats, and eveyone helps to feed them.
Like children, the people of Loisaida know who their enemies are.
lundissimo.info /Zoe/docs/lezards-eng.html   (1586 words)

  
 Selling the Lower East Side - The Social Consequences of Abandonment for Loisaida
The population of Loisaida declined 40% over the decade compared to a 27% drop for the entire East Village and a 7.2% decrease for Manhattan.
By 1980 Loisaida housed fewer Latinos but was proportionately more Latino than it was a decade earlier.
The rise of a robust underground economy of heroin and cocaine sales and consumption gave Loisaida the reputation as a premier-buying site for the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut region.
www.upress.umn.edu /sles/chapter6/ch6-7.html   (233 words)

  
 [No title]
Loisaida's last outlaws are about to make their most revolutionary move yet: legal occupation.
The Loisaida squats, last bastion of illegal occupancy, are becoming official, and soon the squatters will own their homes.
Some community residents were openly skeptical about the values and motives of the Loisaida squatters, seeing them simply as pampered political white kids seeking a cheap rent.
www.citylimits.org /content/articles/articleView.cfm?articlenumber=860   (4481 words)

  
 lucid 3-03 here and there (are closer than you think)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Beginning in the mid-1970s, “Loisaida” (the Spanglish elision of the neighborhood’s name) became an obsession for her.
This body of work, made over three decades, stands in marked solidarity and compassion with the people of Loisaida, and continues in a more personal vein the tradition of social documentary begun by Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine at the turn of the 20th century.
One of the major challenges to the Loisaida over the past twenty years has been gentrification—real estate speculators buying properties on the cheap, converting them to yuppie apartments, and making a killing.
www.chronogram.com /issue/2003/03/backbone   (1021 words)

  
 CD Baby: LOISAIDA: Priority Seating
Loisaida took a new breath of air in 1990, when by chance at a jam session at Pupa's 35 birthday party, a new generation of Loisaida musicians decided to reform the band with old and new material.
The band was not officially together as ABC LOISAIDA yet.
Conde could be found jamming in the parks of the Lower East Side with his friends like The Salsa Twins, Stephanie Chapman, Richie Cruz and others.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/loisaida   (714 words)

  
 Selling the Lower East Side - The Emergence of Loisaida
This chapter reconstructs the decade of neighborhood abandonment and social decline, focusing especially upon the streets and avenues east of Avenue A, known as Loisaida, that bore the brunt of real estate disinvestment.
While regional and national attention was directed toward the East Village hippie enclave in the 1960s, the area’s Puerto Rican residents built Loisaida as a viable and vibrant ethnic enclave.
In the 1960s, while the media, politicians and property owners were inured with an "East Village" rather than a Lower East Side, notable changes were well under way in the Puerto Rican community east of Tompkins Square Park.
www.upress.umn.edu /sles/Chapter6/ch6-2.html   (553 words)

  
 Utopian Visions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Loisaida Libre could become at least partially self-sufficient in food as the neighborhood's vacant lots are turned over to community gardens, the soil nourished with rich compost created from organic "garbage" (coffeegrounds, eggshells, fruit and vegetable scraps, etc.), which adjoining neighborhoods will pay us to accept.
In addition to growing fruits, vegetables and corn, Loisaida gardens will also grow herbs for use in the neighborhood's network of Free Clinics, which will also be funded by heavy taxation on the outside economic interests that continue to operate within the LESAZ.
As New York continues the process of political fragmentation which we can see already, Loisaida Libre is likely to become a refuge for progressive exiles from areas of the city where local reactionary forces have taken the reins such as South Queens and parts of Staten Island.
www.interactivist.net /gardens/uv_weinberg.html   (4517 words)

  
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Located in the heart of the Puerto Rican neighborhood of Loisaida, the center, La Bodega de la Familia, began in 1996 as the first program of its kind in the nation.
“The Loisaida is one of the seven neighborhoods in New York that has the most parolees returning to state prisons in recent decades,” states Carol Shapiro, executive director of the program and a former administrator at the New York City Department of Corrections.
He has witnessed with sadness the seeds of destruction that drugs have planted in the Loisaida neighborhood and has now joined the battle to reconstruct his neighborhood.
www.familyjustice.org /assets/press/voed.doc   (1081 words)

  
 Loisaida Guardsman guards Baghdad’s highway to hell
He plans to use his skills and join the Special Forces or work on personal security details for governmental agencies once his Army contract is over.
He’s looking forward to his leave this coming July and reuniting with his girlfriend and their child in Loisaida.
Written permission of the publisher must be obtainedbefore any of the contents of this newspaper, in whole or in part, can be reproduced or redistributed.
www.thevillager.com /villager_105/loisaidaguardsmanguards.html   (897 words)

  
 AOL City Guide: New York - Shopping Directory - Shopping Districts - Loisaida/Alphabet City
The Scene: Loisaida (Spanglish for Lower East Side) lives deep in the imagination of the Puerto Rican community in New York, and has a reputation for being gritty and funky.
Loisaida was the birthplace of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and the hangout of the poet Pinero, recently portrayed in the movie of the same name by Benjamin Bratt.
The garden on East 6th Street and Avenue B in particular is famous for its eight-story towering junk sculpture, dangling with all kinds of former garbage.
www.digitalcity.com /newyork/shopping/districts.adp?district=1020796593,0   (484 words)

  
 Latino Resources
Loisaida, Inc. was founded to address the problems of the social and economic disenfranchisement of poor and low-income residents on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Loisaida concentrates in human development through comprehensive youth programs and children's education in order to eliminate barriers of learning and to secure significant employment opportunities.
The Coalition for the Human Rights of Immigrants (CHRI) was formed in response to an increase in workplace raids by the INS in the New York area following passage of the strict new 1996 immigration law.
web.gc.cuny.edu /nycdlc/culturny/latino/resourcelatino.html   (2838 words)

  
 Puerto Rico is PuertoRicans.Com, map of Puerto Rico online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Urban Latino Hostess Neomi with former Projecto Uno Johnny at the Loisaida Fest.22.
Actress Rosario Dawson with PID at Loisaida Fest.29.
PID and Coca Cola rep at Loisaida Fest.46.
www.puertoricans.com /aguilar/june12004   (760 words)

  
 The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow Into The Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow Into The Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle Review: This is an unusual book because of the interaction of the author and his characters and the digressions he makes for explanations or to express a viewpoint.
Ed Vega has a remarkable talent for capturing the multicultural flavor of language as it exists on the mean, and not-so-mean streets of the city.
Don't be daunted by the title, the author's prose is tight and straight up; his examination of life is as diverse and exciting as the characters who carry this tale.
www.textkit.com /0_1585676306.html   (574 words)

  
 Puerto Rican Beginner Workshop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
As more and more Hispanics are interested in searching for their roots, there is a great demand for help with Puerto Rican research with membership growing steadily for this group.
HGSNY and LOISAIDA has gotten together to bring you this learning experience.
This comprehensive workshop is open to the general public, geared purely for the beginner in mind.
www.hispanicgenealogy.com /loisaida.htm   (170 words)

  
 PUERTO RICO HERALD: Definitely Not In Kansas Anymore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Edgardo Vega Yunque's latest novel sounds like a travel epic, but The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle is a lot more than that.
Set primarily in the Puerto Rican neighborhoods of the Lower East Side -- "Loisaida" in Spanglish -- the novel follows Kansas native and NYU dropout Omaha Bigelow in a postmodern romp through the lives of the neighborhood's various residents.
The story focuses on the Salsipuedes (in Spanish, "Leave if you can") family, whose 15-year-old Maruquita decides she wants Bigelow for herself.
www.puertorico-herald.org /issues2/2005/vol09n03/DefNotInKS.shtml   (359 words)

  
 MrBellersNeighborhood - Chico's Loisaida by David Gerlach
This is still the Loisaida, he might boast: Spanglish for the Lower East Side.
Tony’s pupils are guarded, harboring the memory of the violent episode in 1993 that brought about his untimely demise, and led to his immortalization by the guy they call Chico.
In the early morning hours, as the fierce sounds of rising metal gates echo through the neighborhood, Chico’s murals tell the story of the Loisaida.
www.mrbellersneighborhood.com /story.php?storyid=1473   (1151 words)

  
 Anonymous Outsider: Loisaida: "You Better take Your Ass to The Upper East Side With That Shit"
Loisaida: "You Better take Your Ass to The Upper East Side With That Shit"
I guess there's nothing wrong with a blog devoted to the idea of real estate.
Get with the program man, it's all about how much money you can make and how you spend it.
culturewars.typepad.com /anonymous_outsider/2004/05/loisaida_you_be.html   (385 words)

  
 Passing soccer on to the littlest Lower East Siders
In the olden days before soccer exploded in the universe of youth sports, you would occasionally find a younger brother or sister dutifully tagging along to every soccer match, rain or shine, because an older sibling had a game.
Now that youth soccer has become so popular in the U.S.A., the tag-alongs are growing in numbers, so much in fact that adjacent to almost any match you are likely to find a gaggle of them playing their own mini-game.
Finally, Loisada Soccer Club (“Loisaida” as in Spanglish for “Lower East Side”;) recognized the need to give these 6- and 7-year-olds a day in the sun.
www.thevillager.com /villager_57/passingsoccerontothelittle.html   (750 words)

  
 The Struggle for the Lower East Side   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
From SoHo to Washington Heights, almost every neighborhood in Manhattan has undergone some form of redevelopment.
The Lower East Side, also called Alphabet City, Loisaida, and the East Village, is an example of a neighborhood undergoing gentrification.
Traditionally an area of immigrants and working class poor, the area is now one of the most expensive in Manhattan.
www.jrn.columbia.edu /studentwork/newmedia/masters/faces/introductionf.html   (585 words)

  
 Cinco De Mayo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
NALIP-New York, in association with Anthology Film Archives, proudly present "The Best of the Loisaida Cortos," a collection of mixed-genre short films that cover a broad range of the Latino experience and film shooting aesthetics from the last two years of this film festival and Lower East Side staple.
NewLatino Filmmakers is a showcase of emerging Latino directors/producers sponsored by the New York chapter of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP New York) and organized in collaboration with the NewFilmmakers showcase at Anthology Film Archives.
The Loisaida Cortos outdoor film festival is a collective effort sponsored and pioneered in 2002 by local businesses, Esperanto Restaurant and Baraza both located on Avenue C in New York’s East Village.
www.newfilmmakers.com /calendar/040505.html   (867 words)

  
 loisaida carnival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The sky is barely hazy on this hot early afternoon.
Loisaida is the Hispanic Lower East Side, with Avenue C also know as Loisaida Avenue.
Supposed to be a fair there, so I head east to take a look.
people.delphiforums.com /gunter/view/oly/olyloisaida.html   (207 words)

  
 Welcome to GoLive CyberStudio 3
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, an arts and cultural non-profit organization, founded by Miguel Algarin and his fellow poets, writers, artists living in and around the Lower East Side (‘Loisaida’) came about from the perceived need for ‘a space for art, culture and community’.
Always guided by the desire to remain close to their root origin, Loisaida, which is simply put, home, and to remain true to the purpose of providing a forum, a stage, a center for the Arts and Community.
The Board of Directors has sought the help and assistance from various groups, community residents and local city agencies, and experts in development and expansion in order to determine the best way to address the need.
www.nuyorican.org /Calendar/sam6.02.html   (514 words)

  
 VIVA LOISAIDA
A pioneer keeps a record: Photography retrospective by long-time community resident - "The Villager"
Viva Loisaida: A tour of three decades of life, culture, and history of New York City's Lower East Side
To show your support for Loisaida please email me at marlis@
vivaloisaida.org   (44 words)

  
 LOISAIDA CORTOS BARCELONA - Entrada Libre - Barcelona   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
LOISAIDA CORTOS BARCELONA - Entrada Libre - Barcelona
Barcelona » activitats » LOISAIDA CORTOS BARCELONA - Entrada Libre
Presentamos una muestra de cortometrajes iberoamericanos del Loisaida Cortos Latino Film Festival de Nueva York.
www.loquo.com /catala/post/328797   (81 words)

  
 Edgardo Vega Yunqué - Events
The stories may be read individually or in a straight narrative line.
Gene Santoro of the Washington Post said of Vega's work, he “grabs the American tiger of race by the tail.
He will be involved in a number of readings, books signings and interviews during his time there.
members.authorsguild.net /edgar/events.htm   (790 words)

  
 Edgardo Vega Yunqué - Home
The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle
A Post 9/11 satirical novel of the United States, the war on terrorism, the sloth of the intelligence community and the presidency present and past.
The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle, published by The Overlook Press, October 2004.
members.authorsguild.net /edgar   (670 words)

  
 New Voices: 2005 Grantees: Loisaida Speaks
The Lower East Side Girls Club serves predominantly fl and Latina girls from low-income neighborhoods.
The Lower Eastside Girls Club in New York City has launched the newest addition to its Web site, www.girlsclubworldwide.org/wp, to house the podcasts that club members will produce for their forthcoming Loisaida Speaks program.
Loisaida Speaks will be a program of weekly podcasts, with Girls Club members, ages 15-21, acting as correspondents and covering community news and issues.
www.j-newvoices.org /index.php/site/story_grantees05/loisaida_speaks   (361 words)

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