…Hard Luck Town was physically, it was also organized socially. One part of the town was an Irish settlement and the other part was Polish. Importantly, Mayor Bill emphasized that…
Read More…August 1, 1949, to a working-class family of Irish descent. They lived on the Lower East Side, but by the time Carroll was eleven years old, they moved to Inwood…
Read More…1848 by local, mostly Irish immigrants who also worked at the nearby East River docks, restores a historically significant part of the architectural heritage of the East Village. Tomorrow you…
Read More…The shelves are wonderfully organized: books on various ethnic cuisine such as French, African, Jewish, Latin, Chinese, and Irish; books from different American regions such as New England, the South,…
Read More…another Civil War rally in 1863 when Irish immigrants gathered in the park to riot against the draft. These rallies collectively furthered the identity of Union Square as an active…
Read More…West 10th Street was opened as a warehouse for James Everard, an Irish immigrant who arrived in New York as a young boy. After working as a brick mason and…
Read More…Carmine Street, where I used to live, at number 63, is Mr. Dennehy’s, which is an Irish pub as well as a sports bar. Try the Bangers & Mash, or…
Read More…After waves of immigration into America, and particularly into New York, brought thousands of Irish, German, Polish, Russian, Hungarian, Italian, Russian and other nationals to our shores, U.S. leaders decided…
Read More…into “ethnic neighborhoods.” “Erin,” the Irish section of the neighborhood, is located west of 6th Avenue and north of Christopher. “Italia,” where Italians made their home, is located south of…
Read More…was home to many intellectuals, writers, and artists who embraced ideas and politics counter to the prevailing culture, or Bohemians. But the area was also inhabited by Irish and Italian…
Read MoreWilde poses in 1882 for photographer Napoleon Sarony. Courtesy of the George Eastman House. Irish writer Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born October 16, 1854. The author of many…
Read More…then Irish, primarily) settle in this area before moving on. Italian immigrants took up residence in these same tenements and rowhouses, and built churches like St. Anthony’s and Our Lady…
Read More…unlike the South Village, the center of this Italian immigrant community was its church. Although Boardwalk Empire mainly follows the Irish mob of Atlantic City, it often transports its viewers…
Read More…the paths they used that became main thoroughfares such as Bowery and Broadway, the Irish community from churches such as a St. Veronica’s and St. Johns, and the Italian community…
Read More…Little Germany. Irish immigrants also played a role in the development of the neighborhood, as can be seen just beyond the district in St. Brigid’s Church. This image, painted by…
Read More…mainly settled in the 1840’s, consisting of three story single-family homes, some of which are still standing. At the time the neighborhood was mainly made up of Irish, English, German…
Read More…as Decatur Place. A number of its residents were prominent clerks and merchants (mostly of English and Irish descent), who lived with their families and servants in privately-owned townhouses. David…
Read More…South Village was marked by its large Italian community that settled in the late 19th Century. Around that same time German, Irish, and Italian immigrants found work in the breweries,…
Read More…and socialists over the legitimacy of the use of dynamite by Irish Nationalists in London. Police Capt. McCillagh tried to call for order, but was hit from behind with a…
Read More…historian Andrew Dolkart in The Row House Reborn, the majority of those who inhabited the alley between construction and 1922 were Irish families headed by women. Further, he notes, upon…
Read More…Putten, an early Dutch settler. In 1741, Sir Peter Warren, a famous Irish officer in the English Navy, purchased the property. The area surrounding the site on which the Norwood…
Read More…tenants from the time of its opening, and by 1880, its residents included Irish, German, and Chinese immigrants. Between 1900 and 1920, industrial tenants displaced its residents. The 1905 New…
Read More…her father held jobs typical for an Irish laborer at the time – carpenter, electrician, etc. – but always loved music and dreamed of owning a bar. And so he…
Read More…century, thousands of European immigrants settled in Greenwich Village’s southern section. The dominant Irish, German, and later Italian immigrant groups created working-class communities centered around social institutions. Institutional and religious…
Read More…the mid-1800s. A number of its residents were prominent clerks and merchants, mostly of English and Irish descent. Decatur Place experienced a major architectural and social transformation in the early…
Read More…what is now Macedonia, she joined a religious order of Irish Catholic nuns. Later she would ask permission from the Pope to found her own her order, the Missionaries of…
Read More…Google Maps Following the Civil War and into the early 20th century, 14th Street became home to many of the new immigrants coming to this country. They were primarily Irish,…
Read More…Andrew Dolkart in The Row House Reborn, the majority of those who inhabited the alley between construction and 1922 were Irish families headed by women. Further, he notes, upon their 1921…
Read More…prosperous, even as Irish or Italian oldtimers still lean on pillows to watch the world from upper windows… Two or three decades ago, when many houses had declined into rooming…
Read More…Irish coffee, Italian dinner, Espresso Martini, or virgin bloody mary from a curved bar while you do? Casa Adela, 66 Avenue C Whether you live near Avenue C between 4th…
Read More…Little Spain and The Whitney Museum Our Irish Heritage Ninety-Eight Years Ago, Puerto Rican Migration to the Lower East Side Begins Europe and Greenwich Village Little India in the East…
Read More…this day. 1920 New York State Legislature map showing various “immigrant districts” of Manhattan. Red is Jewish; Tan is Italian; Lavendar is German; Green is Irish; Yellow is Chinese; Light…
Read More…a mason, owned it from 1817 to 1841, and its next owner and occupant, Thomas Bray, was an Irish immigrant who owned a liquor store on Grand Street. Following Bray’s…
Read More…setting as creative and innovative as the sounds you hear and the sights just outside its doors? And get an Irish coffee, Italian dinner, Espresso Martini, or virgin bloody mary…
Read More…surrounding 57 Sullivan Street, there was a mixture of blacks and whites (chiefly Irish and German immigrants). 1870 US Federal Census showing 57 Sullivan Street and 81 Thompson Street, illustrating…
Read More…Kenny – The child of Irish immigrants, Kenny grew up in the Bronx and Greenwich Village. Her father, Pat, was owner of the Village music club, Kenny’s Castaways, and a…
Read More…1840’s, consisting of three story single-family homes, some of which are still standing. At the time the neighborhood was mainly made up of Irish, English, German and western European immigrants….
Read More…and its aristocracy and thus embraced by the upper class of New York. Working-class native-born and Irish immigrant New Yorkers, usually at odds, found common ground in their appreciation of…
Read More…in a setti ng as creative and innovative as the sounds you hear and the sights just outside its doors? And get an Irish coffee, Italian dinner, Espresso Martini, or virgin bloody mary from…
Read More…Renaissance Revival Styles. From the Civil War to the turn of the century, thousands of European immigrants settled in Greenwich Village’s southern section. The dominant Irish, German, and later Italian…
Read More…us to this day. 1920 New York State Legislature map showing various “immigrant districts” of Manhattan. Red is Jewish; Tan is Italian; Lavendar is German; Green is Irish; Yellow is…
Read More…including Italian, Irish, and Eastern European communities, settled in the area, adding layers of diversity to its cultural fabric. Grove Court now L: photo of Grove Court taken by Jessie…
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