SVisualizations of city-owned property in 1979 with the blocks of “Loisaida” mapped against corresponding demographic data. The drawing shows the de-population of the blocks between 1970 and 1980. The free figures denote Puerto Rican residents and the black figures indicate non-Puerto Rican residents


Drawings based on US Census Data as well as maps compiled by interfaith Adopt-A-Building in HUD reports, “Loisaida: Strategies for Neighborhood Revitalization and Self-Determination,” New York.

Illustration by Nandini Bagchee

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This project is an expansion of the themes from the exhibit Activist Estates: A Radical History of Property in Loisaida (2019) authored and designed by the urban historian and architect Nandini Bagchee in partnership with curator Libertad Guerra.

AELES is an evolving resource that can grow to include supplemental layers of the case studies selected and the ongoing survival and futuring intents of these legacies.