…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…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 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…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…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…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…Fourth Avenue, where a classic of Jewish literature was reintroduced to the world That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Explore our entire South of Union Square Virtual Map and…
Read More…couple met at University Settlement on Eldridge Street, where Pastor, writing for the Jewish Daily News, interviewed Stokes, a leader among the wave of college graduates hoping to serve 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…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…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…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…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…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…UP Oral History Project. A lifelong New Yorker, she is a longtime activist for queer rights and women’s empowerment and serves on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace….
Read MoreEmery Roth, born in 1871, was an architect and Hungarian-Jewish immigrant to New York. Roth designed many of the New York City hotels and apartment buildings that defined the 1920s…
Read More…Abolitionist Movement to Jewish labor activists who pioneered cooperative workers’ housing, and Black clergy who led the Civil Rights Movement, this virtual talk by historian Lucie Levine explores these stories…
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…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…Market Edgar M. Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life Paul Egita El Faro Restaurant Elephant & Castle Leroy Ellis Faicco’s Pork Store Father Demo Square Film Forum First Presbyterian Church…
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…1911, where 146 women and men died (many recent Italian and Jewish immigrants), he conducted scores of masses for those who perished. In 1926, Demo learned about the impending plan…
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…another glance at the El. I love the bit of Hebrew on the sign, which speaks to the neighborhood’s Jewish heritage. Courtesy of the MCNY. Does anyone know what this…
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…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 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…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….
Read More…couple established in 1942 to support education, music and the arts. Mrs. Moses contributed for projects like the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and providing a wheelchair lift and other equipment…
Read More…from the 1930s onwards. Rebecca Lepkoff was born in a Hester Street tenement to Jewish-Russian immigrant parents in 1916. The story goes that she purchased her first camera with money…
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…Fort 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…by their heterosexual neighbors. In the 1920s, however, they began throwing their own balls, and opening their own establishments. In 1925, a Polish-Jewish lesbian immigrant named Eva Kotchever (known better…
Read More…once perhaps the most significant Jewish community in America. St. Veronica’s Roman Catholic Church St. Veronica’s Roman Catholic Church, 155 Christopher Street (John Deery, 1889), Greenwich Village Historic District Extension…
Read More…since then. Much of the Lower East Side’s Orthodox Jewish community has moved out. Young professionals have moved in. The variety of retail and restaurants have changed to meet the…
Read More…who’s made waves by bringing Montreal-style Jewish delicatessen to New York, learned of the building’s sale through friends who facilitated a new bakery taking the place of the old –…
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…Eastern Europe, and a mass migration to the suburbs) the synagogue has always remained an important part of the Lower East Side Jewish community. The East Window (the only 21st…
Read MoreToday is Yom Kippur, so let’s take a look at some East Village buildings that are, or used to be, synagogues. Jewish immigrants to the East Village and Lower East…
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…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…Jewish population was dense.” In 1901 these two institutions merged with the New York Public Library (established in 1895) spurred by the promise of a large grant from Andrew Carnegie….
Read More…the St. Vincent’s campus from the Rudin organization and North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System have included proposals for the re-use of this triangular space — read all about it…
Read More…and the most renowned of the Yiddish performers. As The New Yorker stated in 1937, “everybody who is anybody in the creative Jewish world turns up at the Cafe Royal…
Read More…Brown Building to begin Sunday’s walking tour On Sunday, March 27, GVSHP, along with the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy, led a walking tour in honor of the anniversary. Elissa…
Read More…expanded, and nurtured into a world-renowned New York institution . The 2nd Avenue Deli was known for its delicious array of Ukrainian and Jewish menu items. Joe DiMaggio, Bob Hope,…
Read More…Cookbooks at 163 West 10th Street. Specializing in historic cookbooks dating from the 18th Century, New York restaurants and food, and Jewish cookbooks (just to name a few!), Bonnie Slotnick…
Read More…Street Brownstone Becoming Mini University for Jewish Education (EV Grieve) Phase II of the High Line Now Open! (Gothamist) In Greenwich Village, the Signs They Are A-Changin’ (NY Times) Review…
Read More…Set in Atlantic City, the series often departs to New York to check in with Jewish mob boss Arnold Rothstein and his then-“employee” Sicilian-American gangster Lucky Luciano, who would become…
Read More…to the East Village. Some wonderful resources include the Emma Goldman Papers Project, The Jewish Women’s Archive History Makers Project, and the American Experience’s companion website to their Emma Goldman…
Read More…when he was a NYC Police Commissioner, to William Randolph Hearst. One of its most infamous incidents occurred on January 6, 1914 when there was a mob shootout between Jewish…
Read More…American tale: the Jewish immigrant sold to the Italian immigrant! The neighborhood was still very much the old neighborhood from what I heard. I learned a lot from the Zito…
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…south side of 11th Street, east of 6th Avenue. Shearith Israel was the only Jewish congregation in New York City from 1654 until 1825 and its members were mainly of…
Read More…warehouses, and coal and lumber yards near the Hudson River. The East Village saw an influx of German, Eastern European, and Jewish immigrants. Later in the mid-twentieth century, the lower,…
Read More…a role in the end of Kleindeutschland, and with it, the beginnings of a new Eastern European Jewish community. Over a period of sixty years, the element of one continuity…
Read MoreIt was on this date in 1951 that the infamous espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg began. The Jewish-American Communists, along with Soviet spy Morton Sobell, were accused of…
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…the East Village. Be sure to check out our stories on eating in the East Village – then and now! We’re explored the eateries of East 7th Street, the Jewish…
Read More…to New York City where the Jewish mob had held sway on the Lower East Side and the Italian mob had a large presence in the East Village. The latter…
Read More…to do this work. In 1967, Moody was a co-founder of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion, a national network of Protestant and Jewish clergy who helped women find safe,…
Read MoreInfluential American abstract expressionist painter Lee (Lenore) Krasner, was born on October 27, 1908 to Russian Jewish immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from high school, where she…
Read More…ticket, literary agent and housing activist on the Lower East Side. Frances grew up in Springfield Garden Queens and was the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. Her first home on…
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…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 MoreWorld-renowned composer and East Village denizen Philip Glass was born on January 31, 1937 in Baltimore. The child of Jewish emigrants from Lithuania, his mother aided Holocaust survivors and recent…
Read More…of his mother, Naomi, who raised him to be Jewish, as well as his estrangement from his religion as a gay man. He had begun writing Kaddish in 1957 while in Paris, before…
Read More…Yiddish Theater, when the area was known as the Jewish Rialto. With earlier incarnations as a movie house, by the 1930s, live Yiddish drama and vaudeville appeared onstage and the…
Read More…Jewish American banker. Harwood goes on to list oral history projects around the country that feature everyone from movers and shakers in civil rights and social justice movements to people…
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…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…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…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…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…Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Hirshorn…
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…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…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…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…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…Factory in the building at 23-29 Washington Place. The fire killed 146 workers, predominantly recent Jewish and Italian immigrant women aged 16 to 23. The factory was located on the…
Read More…programs. Ariel has also worked in human resources, publishing, and after-school programming in New York and in the Boston area, where she grew up. Ariel received her BA in Jewish…
Read More…was a Children’s Aid Society school until 1925. In 1925 the building was purchased by the Darchei Noam Congregation, which used the space as a Jewish social service building and Yeshiva…
Read More…Brooklyn Museum, the Jewish Museum, the Nagoya Museum of Art, the Onasch Collection in Berlin. She spoke about Chaim’s life and career. Dr. Susan Fisher speaks to the assembled crowd….
Read More…from an Orthodox Jewish family from Brooklyn, Marilyn lived in a couple of places on the Upper East Side before eventually finding the apartment on Stuyvesant Street through a couple…
Read More…Jewish. They demanded union recognition, a closed-shop system, a 48-hour work week, double pay for overtime, and an end to the inside contractor system. They were met with bitter resistance…
Read More…Jewish boy from Brooklyn named Larry Lipinsky (played by Lenny Baker) moves to the notoriously progressive Greenwich Village to the dismay of his overprotective mother to chase his dreams of stardom….
Read More…was then still known as the Lower East Side), was referred to as the Jewish Rialto because of the many thriving Yiddish language theaters. In 1925 the developer Louis N….
Read More…that still exists of famed neighborhoods like Little Italy, the Jewish Lower East Side, or Brooklyn’s Italian Bensonhurst, there are many immigrant enclaves virtually lost to the ages. When immigration…
Read More…stemming from large-scale Jewish immigration to the area, and the stigma during and after World War I attached to German identity. Remnants of Kleindeutschland can still been seen today in…
Read More…Ph D., he states, “In 1849 the Lower East Side became home to the German Jewish immigrants immediately after the failure of the socialist revolution of 1848. The newly formed…
Read MoreMan Ray was born on August 27, 1890 in Philadelphia to Russian Jewish immigrants. His father was a tailor and his mother a seamstress. He was named Emmanuel Radnitzky but…
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