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Eric
Ferrara is a fourth generation, native
New Yorker. His mother's grand-mother settled on
the Lower East Side in the 1870's, and his father's
grand-mother settled in Little Italy in the 1880's.
Eric is a dedicated community activist and passionate
historian who has made it his life mission to research
and document his neighborhood's great history and
share it with the world.
Rob
Hollander, Ph.D, a native East Side New
Yorker, moved into Alphabet City in the 1970's,
during its most desperate years of poverty, and
has never left. A neighborhood preservationist and
community activist, Rob is currently engaged in
an effort to save the Bowery from over development.
Hollander earns his living as an academic linguist
and early music vocalist while contributing articles
to various online media sources on, among other
subjects, tenement architecture and local history.
Visit Rob's website 
Anthony
Donovan, documentarian, filmmaker, author,
and native New Yorker, has lived in the East Village
for the past 20 years. He has been involved with
the area's music, arts and politics since the late
1960's, and has participated in Interfaith events
and services throughout NYC since 1968. A direct
decendent of the notable McAllister tugboat family
(incorporated in NYC 1868), all four of Anthony's
grandparents were born, lived and passed on here
in New York City. Visit Anthony's website 
Max
Weissberg is a seasoned tour guide who
has been giving tours at the Tenement Museum and
of the Lower East Side for over two years and has
led tours of Gramercy Park for over four years.
Max currently lives in the Lower East Side only
three blocks away from where his great-grandfather,
Maximillian Weissberg, arrived in 1905 from Chernovitz.
Jesse
Archer spent several years traveling the
world before settling in the Lower East Side almost
ten years ago, where he feels like he's traveling
the world! Jesse is a freelance writer, a people
person and eager to share the rich cultural history
and diversity of his neighborhood with others.