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City Hall

 The center of municipal government for the five boroughs that make up New York City, the side lobby on the main floor of City Hall displays a collection of Jewish artifacts in a glass case. Visitors c ...

One Center Street, New York, NY, United States of America, 10038 - Map - StreetView
 

CITY OF DAVID

 It is often said that the City of David is where Judaism really began. David is said to have departed from Hebron to come to Jerusalem with the intention of unifying all the Twelve Tribes of Israel in ...

 

Co-Op City

 Facing the Hutchison River on the East Side of the Bronx, Co-op City houses over 50,000 residents and is the largest co-operative housing development in the world. The 35 high-rises and 7 clusters of ...

 

Curtis High School

 The first high school on Staten Island, established in 1904, this was the alma mater of Jewish Sporting Legend Abel Kiviat. The oldest of seven children born to Polish immigrants who left the Lower Ea ...

105 Hamilton Avenue, Staten Island, NY, United States of America, 10301 - Map - StreetView
 

Cypress Hills Cemetery

 On the border between Queens and Brooklyn, this cemetery contains the remains of several notable New York Jews. Two of the oldest Jewish congregations in New York, the Sephardic Shearith Israel and th ...

833 Jamaica Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States of America, 11208 - Map - StreetView
 

Daily Forward Building

 The “publisher’s row” of the Yiddish newspaper business, five Yiddish dailies were once published on this stretch of East Broadway. The most imposing façade of the street is that belonging to t ...

175 East Broadway, New York, NY, United States of America, 10002 - Map - StreetView
 

Diamond Shops of West

 East and west of 5th Avenue, both sides of 47th Street are lined with shops specializing in diamonds and high-end jewelry. There are nearly 400 diamond dealers above the shops as well as diamond-cutte ...

 

East Midwood Jewish Center

 Formed in 1925 when Midwood was a rural area, the East Midwood Jewish Center was formed from a union of two groups of Jewish settlers in Midwood. Dentist Jacob Schwartz hosted the meeting between lead ...

1625 Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States of America, 11230 - Map - StreetView
Website: www.emjc.org
 

East Side Mikveh

 The initials ATH are inscribed over the entrance, standing for Arnold Toynbee Hall. Built as a settlement house in 1904, it provided educational and social services for new immigrants of the Lower Ea ...

313 East Broadway, New York, NY, United States of America, 10002 - Map - StreetView
 

East Side Torah Center

 A night school offering shiruim for every level almost every night of the week, this study center was opened in 1890. Several plaques commemorating its 100th anniversary surround the outside of the bu ...

 

Ebbets Field Apartments

 Developed by Jewish land developer Marvin Kratter in the 1960s, this cluster of high-rise residences stands atop the site of Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers for 45 years. The beloved baseba ...

1720 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States of America, 11225 - Map - StreetView
 

Ecole O.R.T.

46 boulevard Cl, Strasbourg, France, 67000 - Map - StreetView
 

Educational Alliance

 Now a community center serving the Chinese and Spanish constituents of the Lower East Side, this was once a settlement house helping Jewish immigrants adapt to their new home. Founded by philanthropis ...

197 East Broadway, New York, NY, United States of America, 10002 - Map - StreetView
 

Emma Lazarus Plaque

 Author of “The New Colossus”, a sonnet dedicated to the Statue of Liberty, poet Emma Lazarus was a descendant of the first Sephardic Jews who came to Nieuw Amsterdam in 1654. Her words “Give me ...

Castle Clinton Grounds, New York, NY, United States of America - Map - StreetView
 

Erasmus Hall High School

 The first Secondary School chartered by New York State was built on land donated by the Dutch Reformed Church, which still stands across the street. The original Academy, built in 1787, has served stu ...

911 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States of America, 11226 - Map - StreetView
 

Espace Hillel

 Social and cultural center of the Jewish community in Lyon.

113 Bd Vivier Merle, Lyon, France, 69003 - Map - StreetView
 

Forest Hills Jewish Center

 Set in a niche off the main thoroughfare of Queens Boulevard, the Forest Hills Jewish Center is an egalitarian Conservative congregation. The main feature of the center is an Ark designed by illustrat ...

106-16 Queens Boulevard, Queens, NY, United States of America, 11374 - Map - StreetView
Website: www.fhjc.org
Telephone718-263-7000
 

Former Concourse Plaza Hotel

 This was once the grandest hotel in the Bronx, the place to be seen and the most desired location for a wedding or a bar mitzvah. Once graced by presidents from Truman to Kennedy, and the hotel where ...

Grand Concourse, 161st Street, The Bronx, NY, United States of America - Map - StreetView
 

Former East Side Hebrew Institute

 East of 1st Avenue in this section of the Lower East Side, the avenues are given letters; Avenue A, B, C and D. Because of this the area became known as “Alphabet City” and from the 1960s onwards ...

Avenue B and East 8th Street, New York, NY, United States of America, 10002 - Map - StreetView
 

Former Eastern District High School

 Now the High School for Legal Studies, the Eastern District High School was the secondary school of choice for the neighborhood’s teenagers from 1895 to 1994. Perhaps the most famous student was Bar ...

850 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States of America, 11211 - Map - StreetView