In 1902, a funeral procession for a prominent rabbi turned into a melee in which nearly 200 Jews were injured. You might be forgiven for never having heard of the worst anti-Jewish riot in American ...
Visitors wandering past 161 Essex Street on the Lower East Side may wonder, what’s in there? The door is covered with stickers and graffiti, and every once in a while, a bearded man may walk out the ...
When the Bialystoker Center and Home for the Aged opened on Manhattan’s Lower East Side on June 21, 1931, more than 25,000 Eastern European Jews came out to celebrate. The distinctive Art Deco tower ...
As part of Lower East Side History Month, a condensed pop-up version of the exhibit about the never-built Lower Manhattan Expressway, In the Shadow of the Highway: Robert Moses’ Expressway and the ...
In New York’s Lower East Side, one can indulge in the arts in its many upper-echelon galleries or hit the clubs with the twenty-somethings, eat the greasiest food imaginable or belly up to a ...