LES/Chinatown (Zip code: 10002) Timeline

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Irish and German Immigrants flood the Lower East Side

1840 - 1848

1840s

Keying is the first Chinese ship to sail into New York Harbor

1847

The New York Chinatown History Project And The Museum Of Chinese In America.

German Catholic immigrants build St. Marks and open the Trinity Lutheran Church.

1848

Irish Catholics immigrants build St. Brigid

1848

What today is the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, housed 7,000 imagrants.

1863 - 1935

http://www.preservationnation.org/travel-and-sites/sites/northeast-region/tenement.html.

Bavarians bring over Caribbean immigrants to work in the growing Cigar industry.

1870

Tenements built to house new immigrants.

1870

Italians, Jews and Greeks begin massive immigration to the Lower East Side.

1880

The New York Chinatown History Project And The Museum Of Chinese In America.

The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress.

1882

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=47

Lillian Wald founds Henry Street Settlement

1893

http://www.henrystreet.org/about/history/

Most Germans move uptown after The Slocum Disaster

1904

Destruction of Tenements for Public Housing, Parkways, playgrounds and projects.

1927

Urban Reform Movement

1934

Lower East Side starts to de-populate except for low-income housing projects.

1935

Known as a place for Juvenile delinquency, gangs, and heroin usage.

1950 - 1959

Hippies, musicians and artists begin to move in.

1967

New influx of Chinese immigrants and expansion of Chinatown.

1968

The Plant-a-Lot Program funds the development of community parks and gardens.

1978

A group of homeless set up an encampment in Tompkins Sq. Park

1987

The LES Community Garden Coalition supports gardeners*

1991

The LES Community Garden Coalition supports gardeners who have reclaimed vacant lots and turned them into gardens.

198 gardens are transferred to the NYC Parks department.

2001

Stipulation agreement signed by the NYOAG Elliot Spitzer and anew York City Corp Council to settle lawsuit brought by the OAG against NYC; 198 gardens are transferred to the NYC Parks department.

HSBC reports the Bowery Savings Bank

2005

Wan- Yin Tan, Wendy. Chinatowns of New York City. 2008.

-HSBC reports the Bowery Savings Bank to be the largest banking group in the world and the most successful bank in Chinatown

Funding to Henry Street youth services is planned to be restored

2012

New York's mayor and City Council announce in July that they will restore funding to youth services, including Henry Street's vital after-school programs. Massive proposed cuts to the Fiscal Year 2013 city budget would have eliminated some Henry Street programs. http://www.henrystreet.org/about/history/ "Mayor Bloomberg and City Council announce that they will restore funding to Henry Street youth services."

The LPC votes to create the East Village/LES Historic District.