Inside, Batista Grocery, Luis’s Meat Market, and many of today’s food, tchotchke, and clothing stands ... and interpretation of Jewish law. Today, the Lower East Side and New York City ...

When, in 1999, they took their son to the Lower East Side to buy a tallit prayer shawl for his bar mitzvah, they realized that the Jewish heritage seemed to be disappearing from the neighborhood.

As the area became more gentrified and built up, many sites related to Jewish history on the Lower East Side began to disappear. Former site of Ridley’s Department Store. “I think one of the ...

The changes in the dynamic neighborhood were recently spotlighted in a Twitter thread curated by a Hasidic Jewish man known as “Hungry Chipmunk.” (New York Jewish Week) – For a large part of ...

Whether you’re seeking an earth-tone T-shirt or a custom suit, Manhattan’s Lower East Side now offers a concentration of ...

(New York Jewish Week) — The corner of Ludlow and Rivington streets in New York City is now officially known as Beastie Boys Square. The co-naming of this Lower East Side street corner — where ...

Tours will start at The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy Kling/Niman Family Visitor's Center,(under construction) 400 Grand Street (between Clinton and Suffolk Streets) across from Citibank.

Harold “Heshy” Jacob, the last of the great power brokers of the Jewish Lower East Side, died June 23 after an illness. Jacob, 71, was a neighborhood power player with a hand in much of the ...

In its turn-of-the-century heyday, the Lower East Side was home to a flourishing Jewish community of Germans ... are free to touch things, try on clothes, and pester the “costumed interpreter ...