Lower East Side Jewish Rialto Walking Tour

A Walking Tour of the Past and the Present

This Tour Covers About 40% of the Area of the Jewish Heritage Walking Tour #1 And Features:
A walk through the Yiddish Rialto and a look at some former Yiddish Theaters. We will stop by the home of Emma Goldman and the Second Avenue Deli (a Lower East Side version of Growman's Chinese restaurant in Hollywood in that it uses it's side walk to commemorate its past.) We will be walking through an area that once was part of the Lower East Side but today it is called the East Village.

Each participant is given an itinerary with 17 stops that include: five New York City landmarks and three National landmarks.
Each stop is fully discussed.

Some Highlights Are:


  • landmark movie theater originally the "Yiddish Arts Theater" (Maurice Schwartz - Mr. Second Ave.)
  • The site of the original: Second Avenue Deli. & The Walkway of Yiddish Actors
  • Another surviving theater from the Yiddish Rialto
  • George and Ira Gershwin lived here as teenagers
  • The Community Synagogue
  • Two landmark institutional buildings that survived from 1884
  • The tenement building where Emma Goldman lived and other tenements and exactly what they were and how they differed from apartment houses?
  • A building that was the "Hebrew Technical School" and today is a part of NYU
  • The Hebrew Actors Union and Actors Club Bldg.
  • The Labor Lyceum (forming the International Ladies Garment Workers Union)
  • The first building to house a production of Yiddish Theater in New York
  • Minimalist composer Philip Glass lived here 1957
  • The site of the "Cafe Royal" also known as the "Yiddish Sardi's"
  • The site of the PHyllis Anderson Theater on the Yiddish Rialto
  • The site of David Kesseler's, Second Avenue Theater, the first theater on the Yiddish Rialto
  • The Sunshine Movie Complex on Houston St. was called The Houston Hippodrome / Nickoldeon between 1907 and 1917 when it featured Yiddish plays

    • Optional: HIAS and The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire building / story, both stops are not on the lower east side and will extend the tour about a half hour.

    About two hours long

    Meet at the Southeast Corner of E. 13 Street and Third Avenue

    Guided by Alfred Pommera college graduate, an informative native New Yorker and a Licensed New York City guide,
    with over 20 years experience researching, creating and leading walking tours in Manhattan's many diverse neighborhoods.

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