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Walking Tour: Jewish Lower East Side
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Stroll through the neighborhood's 100-year-old history!
A century ago, the Lower East Side saw unparalleled growth as waves of immigrants settled, prayed, played, worked, shopped, and attended school in this neighborhood as they built their new lives in a new land. Today, there are signs of the past hidden within the modern streets. See how many of these historic places have been transformed, repurposed, or restored.
Highlights:
Visit the Museum at Eldridge Street and see a fully restored magnificent 1887 synagogue
Stop at Straus Square and learn about its history and its significance during the heyday of Jewish immigration
Visit The Forward building and learn the role of this important Jewish newspaper and its Yiddish advice column A Bintel Brief
Stop by Seward Park, the first municipally-built free playground in the United States and designed especially for the neighborhood’s children, the first generation to grow up in such crowded conditions
Join a Museum at Eldridge Street expert guide on Sunday, September 7th at 1:30pm as we walk in the footsteps of these immigrants and tell their stories.
Venue: Museum at Eldridge Street12 Eldridge Street
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