…place 30 years ago this month, four Palestinian gunmen terrorized passengers aboard the Achille Lauro, killing one Jewish man on October 8, 1985: Leon Klinghoffer, 69, whom they shot and…
Read More…of 6th Avenue on 11th Street is the Second Cemetery of Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue, Shearith Israel, the second cemetery installment of the Congregation Shearith Israel, a congregation of Sephardic Jewish immigrants…
Read More…City once a year throughout her childhood, staying with family at her former 108 East 4th Street home. Gloria has fond memories of the Jewish neighborhood and Jewish delis on…
Read More…24, she moved to New York’s Lower East Side and worked at the Jewish Daily News. Two years later she married J.G. Phelps Stokes, a wealthy Episcopalian philanthropist whom she…
Read More…H. The vegetarian menu includes Jewish-Polish-Ukrainian soul food like pierogis, knishes, blintzes, borscht and lox, as well as diner essentials like omelets, pancakes, grilled cheese and tuna salad. It’s the…
Read More…home where folks could be deeply Jewish and proudly gay. In 1976, CBST moved to a loft in the Westbeth Complex on Bethune Street in the Far West Village, overlooking…
Read More…Windsor and Thea Clara Spyer. Edith “Edie” Windsor was born in Philadelphia in 1929 to a Russian Jewish immigrant family. She graduated from Temple University and later moved to New…
Read More…In the late 19th century, pushcarts began to proliferate on the congested streets of the Lower East Side, driven by waves of European Jewish immigration. According to the Museum at…
Read More…Jewish, Italian, German, and Hungarian immigrants. In many ways, Marcus Loew embodied that diverse experience. The future theater magnate was born in 1870 and raised by recent Jewish Austrian immigrants…
Read More…by the prolific theater architect Harrison G. Wiseman, this building was constructed in 1925-26 for Louis N. Jaffe, a Brooklyn lawyer and prominent Jewish civic leader, who intended it as…
Read More…of the world’s largest Jewish communities. The building is known today as the Community Synagogue Max D. Raiskin Center. Bodies washed up on the shore (image courtesy NYPL) The General…
Read More…Israel, a congregation of Sephardic Jewish immigrants and the oldest Jewish congregation in North America. The First Cemetery of Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue, Shearith Israel — also known as Chatham Square Cemetery —…
Read More…three-term New York City mayor often cited as New York City’s best mayor (and arguably both its first Italian-American and first Jewish mayor), who championed political reform and immigrant rights,…
Read More…south of 9th Street in the East Village, for the website 6sqft. That incredibly diverse story extends from Peter Stuyvesant and his direct descendants to German teetotalers, Jewish gangsters, Ukrainian…
Read More…family at her former 108 East 4th Street home. Gloria has fond memories of the Jewish neighborhood and Jewish delis on 2nd Avenue, as well as visiting Sara Delano Park,…
Read More…Edith “Edie” Windsor was born in Philadelphia in 1929 to a Russian Jewish immigrant family. She graduated from Temple University and later moved to New York City to pursue a…
Read More…Ottinger (whose son, Albert Ottinger, would become the first Jewish major party candidate for Governor of New York in 1928, losing by less than 1% of the vote to Franklin…
Read More…and tremendous loss of life helped precipitate the rapid transformation of this area from a largely German-immigrant to a largely Eastern European Jewish immigrant neighborhood, and in 1940 the present-day…
Read More…Homes Movie and TV Show Locations Wood Frame Houses Buildings Designed by Emery Roth (& Sons) Little Flatirons of the Village Homes of Preservationists Daytonian in Manhattan Firehouses Jewish History…
Read More…also includes other tours showing spots of social change, homes of transformative women, locations highlighting African-American and Jewish history, and much more – all expanding upon the district’s original designation…
Read More…United States Department of Agriculture and as founding Executive Director for the Jewish Association for Services for the Aged (JASA). Early childhood memories grow faint. But some recollections remain vividly…
Read More…and National Medal of the Arts-winning author Saul Bellow. Saul Bellow Saul Bellow was born June 10, 1915 in Quebec to Jewish immigrant parents from Russia who arrived in North…
Read More…aged 42, working as a pharmacist. Courtesy Ancestry.com In 1921, Kiehl’s apprentice Irving Moskovitz took over the store. The Russian Jewish Moskovitz family had immigrated to the country after World…
Read More…more Civil Rights and Social Justice locations in our neighborhoods, including those connected to African American, women’s, LGBTQ, Jewish, Hispanic, and immigrant civil rights efforts, explore the whole map here….
Read More…an area that he described as “very, very Jewish” at that time. By 1960, he moved to his third home at 515 East 13th Street, in a neighborhood that had…
Read More…Dr. Caligari. In 1935 the Jewish Telegraph Agency reported that the “little playhouse brings to New York movies of interest to lovers of France and to those familiar with the…
Read More…introduced legislation drafted by the Order to bar discrimination against Jewish, Italian, and black individuals in war work. Furthermore, the IWO demanded the integration of Major League Baseball, segregated beaches,…
Read More…site of Hilly’s Hilly Kristal was born on September 23, 1931 to Jewish immigrants, Bertha and Shamai. Kristal grew up in Hightstown, New Jersey, where he studied music from a…
Read More…History and Oral History books. Lena lives in Brooklyn. She enjoys writing, painting, practicing yoga, and riding her bike in Prospect Park. Lena feels a deep connection to the Jewish,…
Read More…Rights, 1930-1954. We also highly encourage you to read the letter of support from Dr. Elissa Sampson, who digitized the International Workers Order (IWO) and Jewish People’s Fraternal Order (JPFO)…
Read More…late 19th and early 20th centuries. The space became Arlington Hall, a ballroom and community hall that hosted weddings, dances, political rallies, and union meetings, often for the burgeoning Jewish…
Read More…psychedelic light shows, click here! We also have East Village Building Block tours on African American History, the Jewish/Yiddish Rialto, Historic East 10th Street, Kleindeutschland, Squats of the East Village, and Places That Matter….
Read More…Homes Movie and TV Show Locations Wood Frame Houses Buildings Designed by Emery Roth (& Sons) Little Flatirons of the Village Homes of Preservationists Daytonian in Manhattan Firehouses Jewish History…
Read More…your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Lazarus, who’s been called a reclusive spinster, was a lifelong Villager, descended from some of the first Jewish Portuguese immigrants to…
Read More…which are right here in our very own ‘hoods! Midge Maisel tries her hand at stand-up Rachel Brosnahan plays Miriam “Midge” Maisel, a 1950s Jewish housewife who thinks she has…
Read More…from an open car to a crowd of garment workers about birth control at Union Square, New York, on May 20, 1916. Goldman was born into a poor Jewish family…
Read More…view the whole tour. Enjoy this tour? We also have East Village Building Block tours on African American History, the Jewish/Yiddish Rialto, Historic East 10th Street, and Places That Matter….
Read More…the tour here. Enjoy this tour? We also have East Village Building Block tours on African American History, the Jewish/Yiddish Rialto, Historic East 10th Street, Kleindeutschland and Places That Matter….
Read More…East Side and what would become the East Village to meet the needs of the hundreds of thousands of Jewish immigrants who lived in the area. The Beth Hamedrash Hagadol…
Read More…in New York. The Bernsteins were the children of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Music Inn was opened in 1958 as a record shop by Jerry Halpern. Halpern’s grandmother was…
Read More…bi-racial family during Civil Rights Era, tensions with her Jewish family, and the challenge to find her own way as a poet and writer in a literary scene dominated by…
Read More…Homes Movie and TV Show Locations Wood Frame Houses Buildings Designed by Emery Roth (& Sons) Little Flatirons of the Village Homes of Preservationists Daytonian in Manhattan Firehouses Jewish History…
Read More…in a robbery in 1996, the Times’s Richard F. Shepard wrote, “Mr. Lebewohl was a significant performer in what might be the last Jewish stage setting for Second Avenue, the…
Read More…we are lucky enough to boast one of his designs. Milton Glaser, photo from www.miltonglaser.com Glaser was born on June 26, 1929, to a first generation Hungarian-Jewish immigrant family, and…
Read More…a boy in Harlem in a spacious apartment overlooking Central Park. His father, Isidore, a Jewish émigré from Poland, owned a clothing business that allowed the family a certain level…
Read More…The son of Russian Jewish immigrants Bertha and Shamai, Kristal grew up in Hightstown, New Jersey, where he studied music from a young age. He later attended the Settlement Music…
Read More…to provide a source of spiritual and cultural nourishment, inspire achievement in its young students, and serve as a universal language for the community’s Jewish, Irish, Italian, Russian, Greek and…
Read More…the Cloakmakers Local 48 of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. In New York in the early 20th century, nearly all female garment workers were Jewish or Italian, and while…
Read More…in the Village. The house is now New York University’s Edgar M. Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life. The Little Half House at No. 35 West 12th Street Walking by…
Read More…Jewish socialists, left-leaning lawyers…” A faction of the group had split off from the original Club, after the leadership of the former had vetoed the appearances of Emma Goldman and…
Read More…Square Park. One hundred and forty-six workers, mostly recent Jewish and Italian immigrants, many under the age of 20, died in the fire. While the building—currently owned by New York…
Read More…of another home for STAR, Johnson and Rivera found a building at 213 East Second Street, formerly a traditional Jewish tenement home. A friend named Bubbles Rose Maria, who had…
Read More…antiquarian and out-of-print books on food, beverages, etiquette, entertaining, and housekeeping. The shelves are wonderfully organized: books on various ethnic cuisine such as French, African, Jewish, Latin, Chinese, and Irish;…
Read More…synagogue. Founded in 1973 by 12 Jewish gay men, it serves Jews of all sexual orientations and gender identities, and their families and friends. It originally met at Chelsea’s Church…
Read More…known for his short fiction works featuring miners, gamblers, and other figures of the California Gold Rush. Born in Albany on August 25, 1836, to Jewish immigrant merchants, Harte moved…
Read More…of Hungarian Jewish descent. Schoen graduated from Columbia University in 1902 and soon after traveled to Europe, meeting influential Viennese Secessionist architects Otto Wagner and Josef Hoffmann in Vienna. This…
Read More…century and comes in various shapes and sizes. Kipferl have possible but unconfirmed roots in ancient Egypt and are considered to be a form of rugelach, a Jewish pastry of Ashkenazic…
Read More…music, including the Jewish celebration song “Hava Nagila,” the traditional African American ballad “John Henry,” and the Calypso melody “Matilda.” Village Vanguard could not contain his star power nor his…
Read More…reclusive spinster, was a lifelong Villager, descended from the first Portuguese Jewish immigrants to the New York and North America. She began writing poetry when she was 11 years old,…
Read More…Kaldis, George Spaventa, Al Kotin in booth, at Cedar Tavern” by John Cohen. 1959. Courtesy of The Jewish Museum. Together, they frequented the Cedar Tavern on University Place (more commonly…
Read More…Annual, the Stable Annual and shows at the Jewish Museum. He received a Longview Foundation Purchase award in 1958 and was awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968. De Niro…
Read More…early 19th century house, designed and constructed by a carpenter. Gordon Bunshaft Bunshaft was born and raised in Buffalo, New York to Jewish immigrant parents from the Ukraine. By the…
Read More…find many Italians, Irish, German, and Jewish names, reflecting the ethnic diversity of the neighborhood at the time. In total, 180 men from the block are memorialized. St. Joseph’s Church…
Read More…we were talking about the same place. Amram, who is Jewish, also humorously shared that during participation at Mass one day, he attempted to take Communion and was told by…
Read More…reclusive spinster, was a lifelong Villager, descended from the first Portuguese Jewish immigrants to the New York and North America. She began writing poetry when she was 11 years old,…
Read MoreAlthough she is best known for her Abstract Expressionist paintings, Lee Krasner never ceased to transform her artistic style throughout her career. Born in 1908 to Russian Jewish parents, Krasner…
Read More…bohemian parents, an African-American woman named Beverly who gave birth to him when she was 13, and his Jewish beatnik stepfather Bobby, moved into the then-newly-built 780 Greenwich Street (at…
Read More…for New York Magazine. Her article “After Black Power, Women’s Liberation,” inspired by the 1969 meeting, is still available to read courtesy of Steinem, New York Magazine, and the Jewish…
Read More…such as Little Ukraine, Asian-American immigration, the Italians of the South Village, a tour of Jewish History in the Greenwich Village Historic District, Irish immigration history, and the forgotten Hungarian enclave featuring the lost Goulash Row….
Read More…her pseudonym, Eve Addams) opened her tearoom at 129 MacDougal Street. She was a Polish-Jewish lesbian immigrant known as the “queen of the third sex” and “man-hater,” and proudly reinforced…
Read More…in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, and lived there with his Jewish family until 1967, when he moved to Greenwich Village in his last year of graduate school…
Read More…48 of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. In New York in the early 20th century, nearly all of the women garment workers were Jewish or Italian, and while they…
Read More…English language, left-wing political movements, and surprisingly, the tobacco industry. In 1893, Marx and Moses Ottinger (whose son, Albert Ottinger, would become the first Jewish major party candidate for Governor…
Read More…process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. The landmark decision reversed the court’s previous ruling in the 1915 case of Leo Frank, a Jewish man convicted of murdering Mary Phagan, a…
Read More…Born to a Jewish family in what is now Southeast Poland, Biala immigrated to New York with her older brother Jack and their mother in 1913. There, they joined their…
Read MoreCaptain Alfred Dreyfus (colorized). On December 22, 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young French artillery officer of Alsatian and Jewish descent, was court-martialed, convicted of treason, and sentenced to life…
Read More…Trish Bendix argues, “At its core, Rent‘s hero is inevitably the lead, Mark, who is traditionally portrayed as white and Jewish…Mark and his fellow straight roommate Roger command most of the…
Read More…Leo Frank, a Jewish man convicted of murdering Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old employee of the Atlanta pencil factory that he managed, on specious evidence in what was widely seen as…
Read More…of inferior blood.” At a speech in Des Moines he said: “The three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish and…
Read More…and Levi Strauss & Co. have roots right here in our neighborhood, today’s East Village and the Lower East Side. Levi Strauss was born to an Ashkenazi Jewish family on February…
Read More…1928, 328 East 4th housed a synagogue that served a Hungarian congregation (Village Preservation’s research showed that the synagogue and its congregation played a significant role in Orthodox Jewish history,…
Read More…place for artists, writers, musicians; as key site in LGBTQ, African American, and Jewish history; and so much more. We also included a tour celebrating the many preservation leaders who…
Read More…Young, officiated Matt’s (very Village, very Jewish) wedding — that’s a strong bond. Izzy’s world-famous Folklore Center, which was next door to Marc’s store, is where the wedding was held….
Read More…was briefly Eve Addams’ Tearoom, an after-theater club run by Eva Kotchever, a Polish Jewish lesbian. She was deported after being convicted of obscenity for her book of lesbian-themed short…
Read More…Barney Rosset lived here for decades until his death. Rosset was born in Chicago to a Jewish father and an Irish Catholic mother. In 1998, Rosset told the Associated Press…
Read More…struggle to find her identity as an outcast in a Jewish family and as the wife of a black artist during the Civil Rights Movement. She also ran a writing…
Read More…from Murray (he died before I moved here so I never met him). It was the classic American tale: the Jewish immigrant sold to the Italian immigrant! The neighborhood was…
Read More…the Commodore Theater, along the strip of theaters on 2nd Avenue that produced Yiddish Theater and was known as the Jewish Rialto. With earlier incarnations as a movie house, by…
Read More…location of the photo of the elevated subway below. I originally guessed it was Brooklyn. What do you think? This Uncle Junior lookalike is featured in an unidentified “Jewish Deli”…
Read More…Far West Village to Alphabet City, and housed congregations with Irish, Polish, Italian, German, Russian, Polish, Bohemian, and Jewish roots, among others. These ecclesiastical structures are more extensively catalogued in…
Read More…the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory at the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place, just east of Washington Square Park. One hundred and forty-six women and men, mostly recent Jewish and…
Read More…for the chain Whelan’s Drug Store, came to Block as a partner. Palermo describes the neighborhood then as “Ukrainian, Polish, Italian, Jewish, Hispanic and ‘artist.’” In the more than 60…
Read More…York mayoral campaign, 1977. Photograph by Bettye Lane. Bella Savitzky Abzug was born in the Bronx to Jewish immigrants from Russia on July 24, 1920. First elected on November 3,…
Read More…created for the area’s Jewish residents. Horenburger in a few short years would be commissioned to redesign the facade of a rowhouse into Mezritch Synagogue, which became part of the…
Read More…and directed by Jewish New Yorkers, often in Yiddish. Loew’s Avenue B, circa 1948 Vaudeville pioneer B.F. Keith (the ‘K’ in RKO theaters, and eventually films) opened his first theater…
Read More…40 downtown to the Museum of Jewish Heritage and back. What’s now the beautiful Hudson River Park was yet to come, so there was a lot of chain link fence…
Read More…the Jewish Rialto are rumored to have lived there in the early 20th century. The image of a young Bernard Herrmann living in the same apartment building as those actors…
Read More…his Lithuanian Jewish parents. Given Greenwich Village’s role as a haven for artists in the 20th century, I figured there might just be a Copland connection here… Aaron Copland in…
Read More…of the Eastman gang, the emergent gangs were all Jewish gangs who were concerned not with maintaining their ethnic identities, but with maintaining their power and control over others and…
Read More…Max Isaacs. The acquisition of 323 East 6th Street cost $27,000. During the early years of the synagogue, the Lower East Side was home to the world’s largest Jewish community….
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