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Bohemian National Hall (between 1st and 2nd Avenue), 321 E 73rd Street, New York, NY 10021 Interior. The Bohemian National Hall (Czech: Česká národní budova) is a five-story edifice at 321 East 73rd Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. [1] Constructed between 1895 and 1897 in neo-Renaissance style by architect ...
Most of the regular people that are there are middle-aged and elderly immigrants. The Hall hosts holiday parties, ethnic festivals, local jazz groups, Czech rock bands, and touring acts. [7] The Bohemian Hall hosts the annual Czech and Slovak festival. The hall also has a Sokol club and a Czech and Slovak language school. The Bohemian Hall ...
Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International (CGSI) is a non-profit, volunteer organization dedicated to promoting genealogical research and interest in heritage among descendants of ethnic groups of former Czechoslovakia (Bohemians, Moravians, Silesians, Czech-Germans, Slovaks, Slovak Hungarians, Carpatho-Ruthenians, and Czech and Slovak Jews). [1]
National Museum of Catholic Art and History, closed in 2010; New York Jazz Museum, Manhattan; New York Tattoo Museum; Onassis Cultural Center; Ripley's Believe It or Not!, Manhattan, closed in 2021. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex, opened in Soho in 2008, closed in 2010; Sony Wonder Technology Lab, closed in 2016
Ellen G. K. Rubin is a pop-up and movable book collector known as the "Popuplady". She is best known for her collection of over 9,000 books, including more than 1,000 by the Czech paper engineer Vojtěch Kubašta, as well as for her lectures and research on the history of the pop-up and movable book formats.
In 1900 the New York Times stated that there were about 75 000 Bohemians residing in New York, with about 55 000 of them living on the east side of Manhattan. The East 72nd Street was even nicknamed the “Bohemian Broadway” [16] because of all the Czechs who lived there. This area contained a lot of Czech shops, pubs, clubs and theatres.
The Czech revival acquired an institutional foundation with the establishment of the Museum of the Bohemian Kingdom (1818) as a center for Czech scholarship. In 1827 the museum began publication of a journal that became the first continuous voice of Czech nationalism. In 1830 the museum absorbed the Matice česká, a society of Czech ...
Times Square, in Manhattan Following is an alphabetical list of notable buildings, sites and monuments located in New York City in the United States. The borough is indicated in parentheses. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2012) American Museum of Natural History (Manhattan) Rose Center for Earth and Space America's Response Monument (Manhattan) Apollo ...