 Projects and programs Urban folklore  The City Lore office on First Avenue   [   on the Lower East Side houses archives containing over 100,000 images , hundreds of oral histories, and traditional music and poetry performance tapes.
<meaning-changed>  Projects and programs Urban folklore  The City Lore office on First Avenue   [   on the Lower East Side houses archives containing over 100,000 images , hundreds of oral histories, and traditional music and poetry performance tapes.
 Founding November, 1985, folklorist Steve Zeitlin founded City Lore, and the organization received full non-profit status. Prior to founding City Lore, Steve Zeitlin worked for eight years as a folklorist for the Smithsonian Institution’s Festival of American Folklife. In 1979, the New York City Chapter of the New York Folklore Society, led by Dr. Barbara Kirshenblatt Gimblett, Nancy Groce and others, sponsored the first of three conferences on New York City Folklore. Zeitlin, who participated in the conferences, moved to New York in 1981, and, in 1983, became the President of the New York City Chapter of the New York Folklore Society. City Lore’s first program was a tribute to late anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff in September, 1985. In 1986 moved into offices at 72 E. First Street on the Lower East Side. In 1986, the organization held the first City Lore Festival in Central Park staged in tandem with the first Central Park Summerstage. Urban folklore The City Lore office on First Avenue [ on the Lower East Side houses archives containing over 100,000 images , hundreds of oral histories, and traditional music and poetry performance tapes.