The Lower East Side Jewish Heritage Walking Tour # 2
also known as: . . The Synagogues / Settlement Houses of the Lower East Side Walking Tour
Meet at the Northeast Corner 2nd Ave. & East Houston
About two and a half hours long or three and a half hours long
This Walking Tour Features:
A walk through the Lower East Side to: Delancey St., Orchard St., Allen St., Henry St., Hester St., Norfolk St., E. Houston St., Clinton St., Rivington St., West Broadway and Broome St. Each participant is given an itinerary with 15 stops (for 2.5 hour tour) or (19 stops for 3.5 hour tour) that include New York City and national landmarks. I will discuss history and architecture along with some interesting pictures and stories that will help us understand some aspects of the 19th Century Jewish immigrant experience on the Lower East Side.
Stops included on the two and a half hour tour::
- Katz Deli "Send a Salami to Your Son in the Army"
- A tenement style synagogue building no longer used as a synagogue
- "V. Lenin" on the Red Square
- Congregation Bnai Jacob Anshe Brzezan (Sons of Jacob, People of Brzezan) a tenement style syngogue still in use
- Site of Shapiro’s Winery (Kosher) from 1899 to 2002
- Originally: the "Forward Building" also known as the "Jewish Daily" or the "Yiddish Daily"
- The Educational Alliance America's first settlement house
- Mural depicting over a hundred years of Jewish history on the Lower East Side from the mid 19th century until the mid 20th century
- Bialystoker Synagogue (the oldest building in NY to currently house a synagogue)
- The original Henry Street Settlement Houses began as townhouses for well to do German Jewish immigrants
- The oldest orthodox congregation continually housed in the same building in New York
- The oldest building built as a Synagogue in New York (now an artist studio, gallery and cultural center)
- The second oldest synagogue in New York
- The site of The Romanian Shul, the first Romanian congregation in America
- A townhouse from 1840 was converted to a Talmud Torah
- Landmark part of the Neighborhood Playhouse from 1915
- Built as Arnold Toynbee Hall Settlement House in 1904,and became a Mikvah in 1940
- A building that originally built as a bathhouse in 1905
- Gus's Pickle, made famous in the movie, Crossing Delancey and then moved here
- A building that was originally, The Bank of The United States, and then home to the Hebrew Publishing Co. for 47 years
- Streit's matzoh factory, the oldest, largest, family owned matzoh factory in America
- site of the Garden Cafeteria 1920’s to 60’s. a meeting place (24 hr coffee shop) for Jewish poets, writers, actors
- 19th Century tenements, synagogues and institutional buildings still here on the Lower East Side and more
- Optional: Beauty of Jerusalem, one of the oldest Hebrew Schools on the Lower East Side and in the U.S.
Stops included on the three hour tour::