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The Old Broadway Synagogue is a "vernacular" style synagogue built in 1923 by the architectural firm of Meisner and Uffner. The congregation formed from the mostly Ashkenazic Jewish population of Russian and Polish immigrants to New York during the 1880s who had made their way up to Central Harlem, then migrated to blocks west.
The synagogue celebrated Bunin's Silver Jubilee as rabbi in March, 1951. [40] His work Hegyonot Yitzhak was published in 1953. [38] The old Jewish area of Williamsburg east of Broadway was strongly impacted by the construction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in the 1950s. The congregation's building was expropriated and demolished.
Millinery Center Synagogue, Garment District; Old Broadway Synagogue, Harlem; The Actors' Temple, Hell's Kitchen; Fort Tryon Jewish Center, Hudson Heights; Lincoln Square Synagogue, Lincoln Square; Bialystoker Synagogue, Lower East Side; City Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Lower East Side; Congregation Chasam Sopher, Lower East Side
B'nai Jeshurun is a non-denominational Jewish synagogue located at 257 West 88th Street and 270 West 89th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, in New York City, New York, United States. The synagogue building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in June 1989.
In the 1890s, Congregation Sherith Israel faced the prospect of outgrowing its 1870 Gothic Revival-style synagogue on Post Street. Heeding this realization, congregational leaders first secured property on the northeast corner of California and Webster Streets on September 8, 1902, then hired École des Beaux Arts -trained architect Albert ...
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The iconic triple-arch, steel-truss bridge has been a favorite subject of photographers since it opened in 1956.
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