Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Guss' Pickles was founded by a Polish immigrant, Isidor Guss. Guss arrived in New York in 1910, and like hundreds of thousands of other Jewish immigrants, settled in the Lower East Side . Clustered in the "pickle district" of Essex and Ludlow streets, early 20th century pickle vendors gave birth to what would be known as "New York style" pickles.
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is a museum and National Historic Site located at 97 and 103 Orchard Street in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The museum's two historical tenement buildings were home to an estimated 15,000 people, from over 20 nations, between 1863 and 2011.
[45]: 6 The percentage of Lower East Side and East Village students excelling in math rose from 61% in 2000 to 80% in 2011, and reading achievement increased from 66% to 68% during the same time period. [84] The Lower East Side and East Village's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is lower than the rest of New York City.
The Lower East Side History Project (LESHP) is a non-profit organization dedicated to researching, documenting and preserving the history of the greater Lower East Side of New York City. History [ edit ]
Close-up of tenement houses on Orchard. The orchard in question belonged to James Delancey, who returned to England in 1775, and his farm was declared forfeit. [1]Orchard Street is often considered the center of the Lower East Side and is lined end to end almost entirely with low-rise tenement buildings with the iconic brick face and fire escapes.
Guss' Pickles; H. Hamilton Fish Park ... Lower East Side Preparatory High School; Lower East Side Tenement Museum; Lowline (park) Ludlow Street; Ludlow Street Jail; M.
Now a museum, the Breakers features 70 rooms and spans 138,300 square feet. During the Gilded Age, Cornelius Vanderbilt was America's richest man with an estimated net worth of $100 million, or ...
A Stoop on Orchard Street is a musical by Jay Kholos. The story, inspired by a visit to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, is a nostalgic look at the year 1910. [1] The musical premiered Off-Broadway in 2003, where it enjoyed a long run.