Participating artists: Edward Boros, Ariadna Capasso, Abou Farman and Leonor Caraballo,De La Vega, Eduardo Difarnecio, Juan Carlos Pinto

The LES is said to stretch from Worth Street north to 14th street and from Broadway East to the East River on historical maps of New York. As short a time ago as the 1980s Upper East and West siders could be heard to say they never went South past Union Square.

The LES has been slated since the early 1930s to become a convenient nearby residence for the white collar workers on Wall street. With the collapse of the manufacturing base in New York City in the 60’s (one of the first signs of coming Globalization), factories in SoHo became abandoned buildings, and Puerto Ricans who had actually been scouted by US corporations as new cheap labor for the manufacturing district, were left trapped in the LES, hung out to dry…