Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space - MORUS

Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space - MORUS Based in the East Village, the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space is a living archive of urban activism. Museum entry is free.

As a living history of urban activism, the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) chronicles the East Village community’s history of grassroots action. It celebrates the local activists who transformed abandoned spaces and vacant lots into vibrant community spaces and gardens. Many of these innovative, sustainable concepts and designs have since spread out to the rest of the city and beyond. For

more information, please visit:

Website: http://www.morusnyc.org
Twitter: http://twitter.com/MoRUSNYC
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/reclaimedurbanspace

Museum of reclaimed urban space, catalog the amazing history of grassroots sustainable action and how it all started. ...
06/01/2026

Museum of reclaimed urban space, catalog the amazing history of grassroots sustainable action and how it all started. bike rides changes New York City forever https://buff.ly/7e04jYk

ECHOES IN TOMPKINSSaturday, June 6th at 5:00pmLocated at Museum of Reclaimed Urban SpaceCome and watch the documentary b...
05/31/2026

ECHOES IN TOMPKINS
Saturday, June 6th at 5:00pm
Located at Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space
Come and watch the documentary by Elizabeth Frickey on the music scenes of the Tompkins Square Park.

Today (Sunday) Outdoor Walking Tour $25 starting at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space. Learn the amazing history of th...
05/31/2026

Today (Sunday) Outdoor Walking Tour $25 starting at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space. Learn the amazing history of the lower east side, how community members rebuilt the neighborhood after a community crisis, and it became a community and sustainable success story.

05/30/2026

TOMORROW: TOMPKINS SQUARE HISTORY: A Musical Slide Lecture by Eric Drooker

Saturday, May 30 at 7pm

Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS), 155 Avenue C, NYC

Native New Yorker Eric Drooker (Drooker.com) will project slides as he recounts his childhood in Tompkins Square, tracing the park's history back to the 19th century. This event will be held alongside the new exhibition, The Gates of Tompkins

Tompkins Square Park Re-Design campaignAfter a financial crisis that affected New York City, Lower East Side residents f...
05/29/2026

Tompkins Square Park Re-Design campaign
After a financial crisis that affected New York City, Lower East Side residents fixed up buildings, reclaimed the gardens, and created a sustainable, community way of life. Tompkins Square Park became an amazing example of the community's vibrancy, cultivating music, art, and theater. However, once the city returned to a stronger financial position, authorities sought to take back community housing, gardens, and this new sustainable way of life and undermine these community-based projects. The neighborhood residents put up a fight to stop the gentrification, and Tompkins Square Park became a battleground. A protest encampment was established in the park, and what is known as the Tompkins Square Park Riots went on for several years. Eventually, after using a lot of violence, the city closed the park in 1991 and destroyed the bandshell. When they reopened the park, it was re-designed in a way that discouraged the free exchange of art, music, and public assembly. It has been that way ever since--fences everywhere you look. With this design competition, we hope to be able to put pressure on the Parks Department to re-design it in a way that maximizes community engagement and brings back the creative spirit of the neighborhood.

TONIGHT (5/28) the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space is closing our LES History Month film series with Tompkins Square Rio...
05/28/2026

TONIGHT (5/28) the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space is closing our LES History Month film series with Tompkins Square Riot Footage shot by Clayton Patterson! Clayton Patterson will also lead a discussion after the film. While it is sad to be closing a chapter of a series we’ve been holding for over a month—we are excited for this final night!!

We are also hosting our opening for a new pop-up exhibit about the past, present, and future of Tompkins Square Park!

So here’s the schedule:
4:30pm EXHIBIT OPENING PARTY START TIME
Doors for the film at 6pm so you can chat and get a drink at the bar
6:30is-7 we will START the film
After film: DISCUSSION WITH CLAYTON PATTERSON
This is a true discussion, not a rigid, sterile Q&A, but a real deal community conversation.
After the discussion, the museum will be closed, but CSquat backspace will still be available to hangout and celebrate the end of an amazing series.

$free donations encouraged
155 Loisaida Ave

And maybe we’ll do something similar to this in the future 👀

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05/28/2026

PROSPECT PARK MOON & MAGIC HOUR RIDE
THIS SATURDAY
Grand Army Plaza Entrance to Prospect Park, Brooklyn Last Saturday of the month
Saturday, May 30th........7:15pm
Discover Prospect Park at night with a peaceful ride that visits the park’s little-known treasures. Bicycle lights are recommended.

05/28/2026

CRITICAL MASS RIDE TOMORROW
CRITICAL MASS - MANHATTAN
Union Square Park-North
Friday, May 29th......7pm
This Critical Mass bike ride will be a celebration of future renewable energy and non-polluting transportation.

Tompkins Square, Park exhibit opening today 430 at the Museum of reclaimed urban space New York City this is part of a c...
05/28/2026

Tompkins Square, Park exhibit opening today 430 at the Museum of reclaimed urban space New York City this is part of a campaign to Redesign Tompkins Square, Park.

Tompkins Square Park Re-Design campaign
After a financial crisis that affected New York City, Lower East Side residents fixed up buildings, reclaimed the gardens, and created a sustainable, community way of life. Tompkins Square Park became an amazing example of the community's vibrancy, cultivating music, art, and theater. However, once the city returned to a stronger financial position, authorities sought to take back community housing, gardens, and this new sustainable way of life and undermine these community-based projects. The neighborhood residents put up a fight to stop the gentrification, and Tompkins Square Park became a battleground. A protest encampment was established in the park, and what is known as the Tompkins Square Park Riots went on for several years. Eventually, after using a lot of violence, the city closed the park in 1991 and destroyed the bandshell. When they reopened the park, it was re-designed in a way that discouraged the free exchange of art, music, and public assembly. It has been that way ever since--fences everywhere you look. With this design competition, we hope to be able to put pressure on the Parks Department to re-design it in a way that maximizes community engagement and brings back the creative spirit of the neighborhood.

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155 Avenue C
New York, NY
10009

Opening Hours

Wednesday 12pm - 5pm
Thursday 12pm - 5pm
Friday 12pm - 5pm
Saturday 12pm - 5pm
Sunday 12pm - 5am

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