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City HallThe 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 ... | ||
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Co-Op CityFacing 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 ... | ||
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Curtis High SchoolThe 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 ... | ||
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Cypress Hills CemeteryOn 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 ... | ||
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Daily Forward BuildingThe “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 ... | ||
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Diamond Shops of WestEast 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 ... | ||
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East Midwood Jewish CenterFormed 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 ... Website: www.emjc.org | ||
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East Side MikvehThe 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 ... | ||
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East Side Torah CenterA 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 ... Website: www.estorahcenter.com | ||
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Ebbets Field ApartmentsDeveloped 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 ... | ||
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Educational AllianceNow 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 ... | ||
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Emma Lazarus PlaqueAuthor 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 ... | ||
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Erasmus Hall High SchoolThe 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 ... | ||
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Espace HillelSocial and cultural center of the Jewish community in Lyon. Website: www.espace-hillel.com | ||
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Forest Hills Jewish CenterSet 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 ... Website: www.fhjc.org Telephone718-263-7000 | ||
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Former Concourse Plaza HotelThis 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 ... | ||
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Former East Side Hebrew InstituteEast 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 ... | ||
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Former Eastern District High SchoolNow 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 ... | ||
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