…around our neighborhood if you know where to look. Highlights include Washington Square Park graveyard, the 19th-century Jewish graveyard, Newgate prison, the murdered architect, America’s most famous missing person; the…
Read More…sales, introducing her own aesthetics, culture, and ideas into the purchasing and display of art. Courtesy of Jewish Women’s Archive, Portrait of Edith Regor Halpert by Samuel Halpert, 1928 Fostering…
Read More…each immigrant group brings with them. As an example, the renowned poet and advocate for Jewish causes, Emma Lazarus, wrote the iconic sonnet “The New Colossus” while living at 18…
Read More…a Jewish social service building for almost 50 years until it was left vacant in 1974, then developed into apartments in 1978. Greenwich House Greenwich House was founded in 1902…
Read More…time a German-Jewish enclave. The rest of his family stayed behind. Family lore has it that David’s father, who had brought his family to Frankfurt from Poland when David was…
Read More…which were Jewish or Italian immigrant women who lived in nearby Lower Manhattan neighborhoods, including the South Village, and ministered to the victims and their families. In 1923, when it…
Read More…a successful family, she became an advocate for poor Jewish refugees and helped establish the Hebrew Technical Institute of New York to provide vocational training for destitute Jewish immigrants. As…
Read More…also bias against the people selling them. Used clothes were often available from pushcarts predominantly started by Jewish immigrants, whose professional options were often constrained by anti-Semitism. That prejudice rubbed…
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…century untouched interior is practically unknown to visitors and residents. The evening will visually explore the Jewish history of the neighborhood, the building’s architectural significance, and the religious background of…
Read MoreRecently, our fellow-blogger friend, Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York, noted that the facade of the East Village building that is home to Moishe’s Jewish bakery had gotten a facelift. He asked,…
Read More…the community regulations of Krakow, Poland. The world’s biggest bagel factory is in Illinois. Still, no other food is so associated with New York as the “Jewish English muffin,” which…
Read More…early on with the Village and Bohemian life. Her rise in the ad world doesn’t stop her from forming a relationship with Abe, a Jewish freelance writer. See historic 1960s…
Read More…Street entrance, with the “Talmud Torah Darchei Noam” name added after the Jewish center bought the building in 1925. The Lodging for Boys, commonly called “the Newsboys Home,” had several…
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…meal at B&H as well. Whether or not they come for the kashrut, customers are mad for B&H. The vegetarian menu includes Jewish-Polish-Ukrainian soul food like pierogis, knishes, blintzes, borscht…
Read More…on. You can take a walking tour of Colonial Jewish New Amsterdam, learn the history of restaurants in Chinatown, or watch films about notable local artists like Richard Foreman or…
Read More…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…accusations of peddling anti-semitism. Neighborhood, preservation, and jewish community leaders gathered in 2008 to save Mezritch Synagogue from Kushner’s demolition plan. The good news is, Mr. Kushner has done nothing…
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…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…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…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…of Manhattan’s Jewish cultural life and the living artery of Yiddish Theater in the U.S. Take a visual tour of the neighborhood’s surviving cultural landmarks – from the site of…
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 MoreRemembering the Women of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory on Washington Place was a typical sweatshop, employing mostly young Jewish and Italian immigrant women. On March…
Read More…landmarked. On December 1, 1917, the Evening Post wrote: “The tide of Jewish immigration to this country had begun in 1883, following the first of the Russian massacres, and the…
Read More…Jersey in 1933. His father, the son of Jewish immigrants from the eastern European region that is now Poland and Ukraine, operated a shoe-store business and then worked as an…
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…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…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…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…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…resources, publishing, and after-school programming in New York and in the Boston area, where she grew up. Ariel received her BA in Jewish History at Oberlin College, where her honors…
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…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…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…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…Oral History books. Lena lives in Brooklyn. They enjoy writing, painting, practicing yoga, and riding their bike in Prospect Park. Lena feels a deep connection to the Jewish, queer, leftist,…
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…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…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…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…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…American, Jewish, Women’s, and LGBTQ history, to the Civil War, great artists, musicians, writers, booksellers and publishers, leftist/labor, pop culture, the Roosevelts and Stuyvesants, and much more. At every turn you’ll learn why this unprotected and endangered area of Greenwich Village and the East Village is…
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…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…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…challenges as a wife and mother in a bi-racial family during Civil Rights Era, tensions with her Jewish family, and the challenge to find her own way as a poet…
Read More…all haunt the historic streets of Greenwich Village. Expert tour guide Joyce Gold will guide you through the autumnal scenery as you explore tales of the Village’s early 19th-century Jewish…
Read More…Preservation, and many local and Jewish community leaders opposed the plan, which was dropped. We got the building landmarked in 2012 as part of the East Village/Lower East Side Historic…
Read MorePlaque Unveiling: Chaim Gross Home and Studio Born to a Jewish family in the Carpathian Mountains, sculptor and educator Chaim Gross’s first brush with art came while growing up watching…
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…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…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…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…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…Pastor Stokes, Clara Lemlich, and others will be explored in this lively panel discussion, moderated by Laurie Tobias Cohen, Executive Director of the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy. Issues such…
Read More…328 East 4th Street were converted to house a Hungarian Synagogue, as the Lower East Side became the largest Jewish community in the world; and that in the 1970s, they…
Read More…to the community as a coffee shop and arts venue. There are currently five faith communities meeting in the building of diverse religious and cultural backgrounds (Russian, Jewish, Ethiopian, Asian-American…
Read More…Stokes was so-named, she rolled stogies in an Ohio factory and wrote letters to the Jewish Daily News between and during shifts. She was hired as a reporter and moved…
Read More…field. An essential history of the great Jewish wave of immigration to Manhattan’s Lower East Side, this 3-volume book covers art, literature, food, religion, and so much more. Topics slated…
Read More…and edited by the Lower East Side History Project’s Eric Ferrara. This book documents the memories of 25 people from diverse backgrounds—Jewish, Italian, Puerto Rican, Ukrainian, African-American, Muslim—who experienced life…
Read More…pot, to home to the largest Jewish community in the world, to bohemian epicenter. Learn how the East Village’s fine collection of rowhouses are much more than brick, brownstone, and…
Read More…took the lives of 146 workers and spurred social reform. Join Village Preservation and the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy in a walking tour that will highlight some of the…
Read More…Dutch and Native Americans to the organization of the Jewish and Italian mob, explore the role that crime has played in shaping the character, culture, and politics of the City….
Read More…Siegel who grew up and earned their criminal stripes on the streets of the Lower East Side. Visit the headquarters, residencies, social clubs, and shootout locations of the Jewish and…
Read More…Independence Park Neighborhood Association Fiske Terrace Association Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance WE ACT for Environmental Justice Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy Friends of Petrosino Square Friends of West Park Crown…
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…first Jewish congregation, exploring the literary greats of Greenwich Village, and celebrating the centennial of Alex Haley. Sign up now to guarantee a spot — some are already waitlist-only! CLICK…
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 More…born to an Ashkenazi Jewish family on February 26, 1829, in the Franconia region of the Kingdom of Bavaria in the German Confederation. Due to harsh Anti-Semitic laws and violence,…
Read More…at FDU, gallery lecturer and educator at MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum and the Jewish Museum, walking tour guide for the Municipal Art Society and private clients. Born and raised in…
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…lies in plain view —if you know where to look. Highlights include: Washington Square Park graveyard The 19th century Jewish graveyard Newgate prison The murdered architect The tale of the…
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…an art historian who has worked throughout her career in several capacities: adjunct professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University; gallery lecturer and educator at MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum and the Jewish…
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…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…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…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…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…Street; Bill Bowser; Edgar M. Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life; Cornelia Street Restaurants; Industria Superstudio; King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center; Lewis L. & Loretta Brendan Glucksman Ireland…
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…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…
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