June 2010 - Girls Club Cafe opens -- Helping girls one organic cupcake at a time. Located on Manhattan's fabled Bowery, the Bowery Poetry Club serves as home to the Lower East Side Girls Club Cafe. The bakery is named Celebrate Cafe. While you may think that the new Cafe is a place for organic baked goods, the little bakery is really a job training and employment program for members of the Club. Recipes for the goods in the shop are created for their simplicity, so that club members with no prior cooking experience are easily able to learn the recipes. Visit, eat, enjoy and give a girl from the lower east side the boost of confidence. Location: 308 Bowery, File: Girls Club Cafe Celebration Cafe Bowery

Tours offered by the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy (LESJC) beginning in 2009 will now be continued throughout 2010. Each of these tours (there are 2 choices) last about 90 minutes. Tours take place rain or shine. There are small fees for these tours, children are free. Those who have taken the tours have been thrilled with their experience.

Two Insider Tours are offered: (1) Based on highlights of the LESJC's public tour "Crossing Delancey," will be available on Thursdays beginning at 1:45 p.m. (2) Based on highlights of the LESJC's public tour "Bialystoker the Beautiful" are available on Sundays beginning at 11:45 a.m. Both tours begin at the Kling-Niman Visitor's Center of the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy, 400 Grand Street.