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Lower East Side Jewish Heritage Walking Tours Consultations
A Walking Tour of the Past and Present

The tour features history & architecture along with some interesting pictures & stories that will help us understand some aspects
of the 19th Century Jewish immigrant experience on the Lower East Side.

Some Highlights of the Tour Are::

  • Outdoor mural depicting the Jewish experience on the Lower East Side
  • The Eldridge Street Synagogue (Eddie Cantor)
  • The "Forward Building"
  • the Jarmulousky Bank founded by Sender Jarmulousky
  • The Educational Alliance one of the 1st settlement houses in the U.S.
  • Pike St. Synagogue, now a Buddhist temple & apts.
  • Shearith Israel's oldest surviving cemetery in New York, the oldest Jewish congregation in North America
  • A Greek Orthodox Church formerly: Congregation Kol Israel Anshe Poland, Mishkan Israel Suwalki synagogue
  • The site of Ira & George Gershwin' childhood home
  • The building was the headquarters for a Polish Brotherly Aid Association in 1911
  • A surviving Yeshivas (Hebrew School)
  • Issac Ludlam House from 1829
  • 19th Century tenements, synagogues & institutional buildings still here on the Lower East Side & more
  • originally: The Neighborhood Playhouse
  • A Mikveh since 1940
  • Henry Street Settlement / Nurse’s Settlement the 3 original townhouses for well to do German Jewish immigrants
  • Bialystoker Synagogue in the oldest building in New York City to house a synagogue
  • Congregation Janina a synagogue & a Greek museum
  • Built as the Bank of the United States
  • Originally: The Warsaw Congregation in 1903
  • Built as the Hebrew Dispensary in 1895
  • University Settlement House from 1899
  • site of: Congregation Beth Hamedrash Hagodi Synagogue,1885 &find out about the Chief Rabbi of New York City
  • A former bath house converted into a church
  • Seward Park High School learn about its famous alumni
  • Katz Deli "Send a Salami to Your Son in the Army"
  • A tenement style synagogue building no longer used as a synagogue
  • The oldest building built as a Synagogue in New York (now an artist studio & gallery)
  • The second oldest synagogue in New York
  • Yonah Shimmel Knish Bakery since 1910
  • .Russ & Daughters Appetizes,since 1914
  • A neoclassical tenement style synagogue form 1913

The tour starts at Chatham Square at the intersection of Bowery & East Broadway & Chatherine St.
by the Kimlaw War Memorial, an arch with a pagoda-style top.

The walking tour consulation is provided by Alfred Pommer, a college graduate, an informative native New Yorker, an author & a Licensed New York City guide, with over 30 years experience researching, creating & leading walking tours that focus on the history & architecture of Manhattan's many diverse neighborhoods.

These are links to Alfred Pommer's author page at: amazon.com & at: goodreads for information about 4 Manhattan neighborhood walking tour guide books authored by Alfred Pommer & published by The History Press (Arcadia Publishing)

Publisher needed for new nonfiction neighborhood walking tour guide books.

(212) 979-2388  see my homepage www.nycwalk.com   for free slideshows click here or: e mail

GANYC.org (Guides Association of New York City) Click here

All photographs on this web site are by Alfred Pommer
& all content on this web site, such as graphics, logos, button icons and images
is the property of Alfred Pommer and protected by United States and international copyright laws.
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