The Italian-American Museum, our neighbor on Mulberry Street, just celebrated its first year this past Columbus Day. They are situated in a former bank on the corner of Grand and explore the Italian-American community that once thrived in this part of lower Manhattan.
Read more about it on the Urban Oyster blog.
Also, our other neighbor, the Museum of the Chinese in America, recently opened a beautiful new space on Centre Street south of Kenmare. A visit to their permanent exhibit, which explores the Chinese immigrant and Chinese-American experience in the United States, is a great compliment to a Tenement Museum tour. They have lots of fun interactive things to watch, listen to, and fiddle around with.
It's pretty awesome that you can explore so many different cultural museums (don't forget the Museum at Eldridge Street for the Jewish-American experience) right here south of Houston Street. Think we're giving Fifth Avenue a run for its money yet?
- Posted by Kate
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Patriotism on Eldridge Street
In honor of the Fourth of July, the Museum at Eldridge Street wrote in their July newsletter about immigrants celebrating America:
Happy Independence Day! Did you know in addition to being a sacred space where Orthodox Jews could worship at the turn of the last century, the Eldridge Street Synagogue was a place where immigrants embraced a new Jewish American identity?
Over the years, the congregants of the Eldridge Street Synagogue partook in many acts of patriotism. In 1889 the congregation decorated the synagogue in honor of the centennial of George Washington's inauguration and, in 1901, they held a memorial service for President William Mckinley.
During World War I, the congregation commissioned and displayed an American flag with stars for each of the congregation's sons serving in the war. These flags were placed in flagholders, each with a five-pointed American star at its base, and affixed to windowsills so that the stars and stripes would be displayed prominently in the windows of the synagogue, blending the traditional with the patriotic.
You can sign up for their e-newsletter for more. They have a great event series as well as themed neighborhood walking tours. I want to take the Love & Courtship tour!
- Posted by Kate Stober
Happy Independence Day! Did you know in addition to being a sacred space where Orthodox Jews could worship at the turn of the last century, the Eldridge Street Synagogue was a place where immigrants embraced a new Jewish American identity?
Over the years, the congregants of the Eldridge Street Synagogue partook in many acts of patriotism. In 1889 the congregation decorated the synagogue in honor of the centennial of George Washington's inauguration and, in 1901, they held a memorial service for President William Mckinley.
During World War I, the congregation commissioned and displayed an American flag with stars for each of the congregation's sons serving in the war. These flags were placed in flagholders, each with a five-pointed American star at its base, and affixed to windowsills so that the stars and stripes would be displayed prominently in the windows of the synagogue, blending the traditional with the patriotic.
You can sign up for their e-newsletter for more. They have a great event series as well as themed neighborhood walking tours. I want to take the Love & Courtship tour!
- Posted by Kate Stober
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