Tag: Lower East Side (Manhattan, NY)

Ashwin Deshmukh Knew How to Win Friends and Hustle People

Sometimes, you meet someone in New York who gives you a good feeling and a bad feeling at the same time. Maybe you’re introduced at a bar, through a friend of a friend. This person is charming and full of ideas, ideas that resonate with you. He seems to know everyone you know, and some […]

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A Rivington Street Tenant’s Secret Would Change His Neighbors Lives

The drag queens who once paraded through the hallways are long gone. The rundown walk-up on the Lower East Side’s Rivington Street was a refuge that offered freedom and acceptance, though it was rife with burglaries and drugs — and no shortage of mischief, when Pierson Tyler-Leonard moved in some 35 years ago. He fit […]

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Tenement Museum to Feature a Black Family’s Apartment for the First Time

For the past 35 years, the Tenement Museum has told the stories of immigrants and migrants who lived in New York City in the 19th and 20th centuries to help visitors better understand the city through the lives of its working class. For the first time in its history, the museum will soon feature the […]

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Does a Jewish Social Justice Organization Have to Choose Sides?

In an example of the political flexibility now absent from public life, President Dwight D. Eisenhower stepped outside the boundaries of standard Republican sympathies in 1954 to honor a Jewish fraternal organization with deep historical ties to labor and the Socialist Party. The occasion was the annual convention of the Workmen’s Circle. In a written […]

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Beth Israel Hospital May Close Next Year

One of the last remaining hospitals serving Lower Manhattan may well close next year, despite opposition from local officials and health activists who say the lessons of the pandemic are going unheeded. Mount Sinai Health System asked state officials last week to approve a plan to close Mount Sinai Beth Israel, a major provider of […]

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