The other day I ended up on New York’s Lower East Side. I had signed up for a walking tour, Crossing Delancey. The tour was sponsored by Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy. They are an educational and cultural organization representing many Lower East Side synagogues, schools and cultural institutions. This was my second tour with LESJC. This tour lasted 90 minutes and is $12.00!!! Under priced for the sites visited, history, and the quality of our guide.
My first stop, we returned later on the tour..........
Essex Street Market: New York City's Public Market on the Lower East Side
For lunch Shopsin's General Store......
Essex Street Market began in 1940 as part of an effort by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia to find a new place for street merchants to do business. At the time, pushcarts and vendors crowded the city streets, making it difficult for police and fire vehicles to easily pass. To ease congestion, Mayor LaGuardia created the Essex Street Market and several other indoor retail markets throughout the city.
In the early years, Essex Street Market’s identity was shaped by the Lower East Side’s Jewish and Italian immigrants, who served as both the merchants and the customers. http://www.essexstreetmarket.com/
Today it is an eclectic mix with a Hispanic theme.....
In the early years, Essex Street Market’s identity was shaped by the Lower East Side’s Jewish and Italian immigrants, who served as both the merchants and the customers. http://www.essexstreetmarket.com/
Today it is an eclectic mix with a Hispanic theme.....
Shopsin's General Store..........
A unique experience and menu .....
Sliders with green chili and BBQ brisket on a ciabatta....
Sliders with green chili and BBQ brisket on a ciabatta....
Saxelby Cheesmongers
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Pain D'Avignon
The Market......
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Beth Hamedrash Hagadol ("Great Study House") was home to an Orthodox Jewish congregation for over 120 years. It was the first Eastern European congregation founded in New York City and the oldest Russian Jewish Orthodox congregation in the United States.Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy is trying to raise an estimated $4.5 million for repairs.
The congregation's building, a Gothic Revival structure built in 1850 and purchased in 1885, was one of the largest synagogues on the Lower East Side.
In the late twentieth century the congregation dwindled and was unable to maintain the building. Despite their obtaining funding and grants, the structure is critically endangered.
How sad...........
Typical of the older sections of the area.......
Congregation Anshe Chesed, founded by a group of German-Jewish immigrants In 1840’s. It is the oldest surviving building in New York City built specifically as a synagogue and the first synagogue structure built on the Lower East Side. At its completion, it was the largest synagogue building in the United States.
Inspired by the Cologne Cathedral, it was designed by Alexander Saeltzer in the Gothic Revival style, popular in New York during the 1850s. The interior's vaulted sanctuary space and great doors continue to evoke awe in their viewers. The structure was purchased in 1986 by Angel Orensanz, an internationally renowned Spanish sculptor, and there is a gallery of his work upstairs. Angel and his brother Al, a sociologist of urban communities and an impresario, have been working ever since to restore the building. They have transformed it into what is presently one of New York's liveliest cultural centers for the visual and performing arts.
http://www.orensanz.org/publications.html
http://www.orensanz.org/publications.html
Legend has it that after the break up of The Soviet Union their were many Lenin statues for sale.
Sits on top of Red Square an apartment building on Houston Street...
Salvador Dali style clock on top of Red Square......
Got to love the street signes........
Congregation Chasam Sopher
Built in 1853, Congregation Chasam Sopher is the oldest continually operating synagogue in New York City.
Congregation B’nei Jacob Anshe Brzezan (also known as the Stanton Street Shul) – one of the few remaining tenement-style synagogues on the Lower East Side.
Since 1937, on the Lower East Side, Economy Candy is an old-fashioned, family-owned candy store that sells hundreds of kinds of chocolates, candies, nuts, dried fruits; including halvah, sugar free candy and of course all the old time candy you had when you were a kid.
