Los Herederos

01/01/2026

We are pleased to announce that for the first time, Los Herederos, has been awarded multi-year general operating support by the New York State Council on the Arts!

We are grateful for this investment in our communities’ cultural futures and honored by the council’s trust and belief in our work. Funds from this award will go towards running our community space in the 74th street - Jackson Heights subway station and will allow us to keep offering dynamic exhibition programs, free cultural events and live community radio.

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The mission of the New York State Council on the Arts is to foster and advance the full breadth of New York State’s arts, culture, and creativity for all. To support the ongoing recovery of the arts across New York State, the Council on the Arts will award over $161 million in FY 2026, serving organizations and artists across all 10 state regions. The Council on the Arts further advances New York’s creative culture by convening leaders in the field and providing organizational and professional development opportunities and informational resources. Created by Governor Nelson Rockefeller in 1960 and continued with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, the Council is an agency that is part of the Executive Branch. For more information on NYSCA, pleasevisit arts.ny.gov, and follow

12/31/2025

This is 2025 🎶📻🎨🎭 🗣️

As the year comes to a close Los Herederos would like to 🔦 and 🙏🏽 each and everyone who participated in making , , inheritingcultureinthedigitalage a daily reality once again!

Our Creative Team (, , , , .navarro, .artunduaga, .danser, .co, and .pinshop) has been hard at work running JacksonHeights’ first ever subterreanean communityartspace and radiostation, while also producing our regular projects and initiatives across NYC and beyond.

In 2025 the Los Herederos Community Space was mobilized by the work of long time artist - in - residence , site-specific installations by and .saldarriaga, innovative local partnerships (, , ) and variety of live radio programming (, , , , , , , , , , , ). From the artists, musicians, deejays and hosts who bring their vision, talent and care to the neighborhood residents and commuters who not only consume, but participate in our unique community-generated content we THANK YOU for helping make , and what they are yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Los Herederos is 🔌
and a diverse community of donors and supporters like you!

11/24/2025

On view in the Los Herederos Community Space doorway is “El sueño,” a unique 28” x 18” x 18”subway miniature by local artisan Robert Saldarriaga.

“El Sueño” explores the blurred boundary between rest and ambition, that point where the desire to achieve something greater, transforms into insomnia. It is an endless and, at times, involuntary journey, driven by the need to find meaning amidst exhaustion.

Saldarriaga Robert Saldarriaga pays homage to those who rise each day, regardless of the weight of their weariness, to continue pursuing their dreams, even when those dreams seem to slip further away with each awakening.

11/17/2025

❄️ 🧣 Winter window displays did you say?
The Los Herederos Community Space is pleased to feature new site specific installations by local artists in our windows for the community.

📽️🎨 With its official opening this Friday November 21, be sure to come check out “You Were Here,” a Video Art Installation by Nitin Mukul supported by a 2025 NYFA / Queens Art Fund New Works Grant.

“You Were Here” is a 16 minute durational painting video filmed at 1:30pm on April 30, 2025, with an outside temperature of 73 degrees Fahrenheit, in Jackson Heights , NY. It speaks to at-risk elements in our surroundings and society that have already or are gradually disappearing from view due to climate change, anti-immigrant raids and policies and the pandemic. In addition to the painted elements that are the core of Mukul’s durational painting technique, all footage was filmed in Jackson Heights. It opens with subway riders disappearing from view as they descend the stairs underground and later bumblebees pollinating by vibrating their bodies to shake pollen loose from flowers. These bees face extinction due to habitat loss, pesticides, and climate change. An aerial image of Jackson Heights shared with the artist weeks ago by an astronaut currently on board the International Space Station also appears as a metaphor for our place in the universe and how all our actions have an impact.

10/28/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/arts/design/bringing-new-life-to-empty-subway-shops.html

Check out LH Radio and the Los Herederos Community Space in The New York Times today (print version coming on October 30th!). We are honored to be among those participants in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority - MTA Vacant Unit Activation Program featured in this article. Many thanks to our community of artists, DJs, hosts and neighborhood residents who make this work what it is and to our supporters for believing Los Herederos over the years.

Stop by the 74th Street-Roosevelt Ave-Jackson Heights Subway station and say hi. ✨🎶🎧

A dino store, dance parties, radio and visual art are set up underground, building community in free space from the M.T.A.

10/28/2025

Thrilled to have the Los Herederos Community Space and featured in the today!

The ’s Vacant Unit Activation program has been a huge opportunity for us to experiment with live community radio and our first brick and mortar space. Many thanks to the artists, radio hosts, DJs and neighborhood residents who make the work so special. We are stronger together and work collectively to sustain our community-based traditions made right here in .

09/22/2025

✨Continuing in our commitment to dynamic , Los Herederos has been incubating a new community theater initiative led by .artunduaga, a Queens based theater artist, educator and LH Creative Team member.

📢 is an interdisciplinary art project that merges photography, multimedia storytelling, theater forms and invites participants to create characters and fiction stories from documenting our communities in our everyday world. This iteration of the project took place in the Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street Subway Station and will have its debut via our community space later this week.

A big congrats to the actors and dramaturges .artunduaga, and who following an intensive period of fieldwork, deep listening, and documentation, have crafted three unique monologues in English, Spanish and Urdu.

Learn more about this exciting new project and listen to monologues this Wednesday September 24th at 4pm on 🎧📻

Reality Meets Fiction is made possible via an Individual Artist Grant from with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Many thanks to the project’s fiscal sponsor , our production staff for the initiative and , and to our Queens communities and commuters for their invaluable participation.

09/16/2025

✨Los Herederos together with Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts in Education, is pleased to announce the publication of the 2025 Issue of the Journal of Folklore and Education!✨

Cultural Frameworks for Transformative Documenting and Learning w/ Guest Editors and

❕Check it out! [access via link in bio]

At Los Herederos, education is baked deeply into all aspects of our work. We see storytelling as pedagogy. To inherit culture in the digital age is to honor tradition while embracing innovation, to archive the past while imagining futures, and to make learning a process of shared transformation. As a community-based organization, much of our work is responsive—and as such, we are often “in the doing” rather than in the writing. To contribute to this journal is to create space for reflection, a way of putting down on paper the lessons that emerge from the lived complexities of cultural documentation.

Many thanks to Co-Editors and for giving the opportunity to contribute our perspectives and platform the importance of documentation, archives, and new technologies for learning today. We remain indebted and grateful to this edition’s advisory committee, the editorial board and all the amazing authors who contributed their work and insights via multimedia publications.

09/01/2025

https://omny.fm/shows/making-it-here/los-herederos-proves-the-power-of-starting-with-a-clear-mission

In honor of the 1-Year Anniversary of our Community Space and Radio Station, we are pleased to be featured on ‘Making it Here,’ the official podcast of Epicenter NYC.

Listen to our Executive Director, Naomi Sturm discuss the organization’s early days, the real life hustle of building an organization from scratch in NYC, and how we ended up in the 74th street - Roosevelt Ave - Jackson Heights station making waves with radio from one of the most diverse neighborhoods on earth.

It’s been just about a year since a once-empty storefront in the 74th Street Roosevelt Avenue subway station in Jackson Heights, became a space for retelling stories. It now houses Los Herederos, a nonprofit blending radio, archives, and public programs to document communities across Queens. The i...

08/07/2025

Thanks Epicenter NYC for profiling our work in the Jackson Heights subway station over this past year. .

It’s been almost exactly one year since an empty storefront in the Jackson Heights train station was transformed from a retail space into one for retelling stories.  Occasionally, it’s a […]

08/01/2025

La familia creativa de y está ampliando 🎨🖌️🎶💜.

Since our launch of LH Radio in 2024, the station’s visual identity and marketing materials have been expertly created by one of our regular design collaborators .co. You may know Juan’s work from other organizational initiatives such as Documenting as Resistance and our events. We are deeply indebted to Juan and his talent and support of our community radio and will continue to work on other forthcoming projects ✨

Starting in August 2025, we are pleased to welcome .pinshop to the team who will takeover the LH Radio design work. Gio is the mastermind behind our famous LH pins and has been a long time supporter of the organization as well.

Gio and Juan will work together in the transition and we look forward to this new era of LH Radio branding.

Thanks and gracias to all 🙏🏾