History

Lower East Side Shul Board Sells Out To Developers; Historians Cry Foul

FROM THE NY TIMES‘ CITY ROOM BLOG This much can be agreed on: An Orthodox congregation established by Eastern European Jews in 1888 occupies a lovely but crumbling neo-Classical building with a two-story Victorian Gothic interior at 415 East Sixth Street, between First Avenue and Avenue A, on the Lower East Side — a neighborhood […]

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