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Old New York 172 Norfolk St jmapmon5.0_5_9x_May10_2007.qxp_jmapmon5.0_5.qxd 6/11/18 11:34 AM Page 1 Ansche Chesed Synagogue Old New York 172 Norfolk St. Judaica Museum Orchard St. Shopping Grand to Houston Sts. Hebrew Home for the Aged 5901 Palisade Ave. Riverdale Beth Hamidrash Kehila Kedosha “Miss America” First Jewish Settlers, 1654 Hagadol Synagogue Twenty-three Sephardic Jews from Janina Synagogue, 60 Norfolk St. Bess Myerson 280 Broome St. Brazil arrive in New Amsterdam Tenement Museum Sholom Aleichem Houses Kossar’s Bialys Sedgwick Ave. & Giles Pl. 97 Orchard St. 367 Grand St. Guss’ Pickles Bialystoker Fashion Designer 35 Essex St. Synagogue Dr. Rosalyn Ralph Lauren 7 Bialystoker Pl. Yalow 3220 Steuben Ave. First Synagogue, 1730 Yeshiva University Bronx Veterans Shearith Israel on Mill St. Amsterdam Ave. Administration & 186th St. Hospital Eldridge Street Synagogue Fashion designer 12 Eldridge St. Calvin Klein Forward Building, 3191 Rochambeau Ave. Educational Alliance 175 East Broadway 197 East Broadway Loew’s Paradise Henry Street Settlement Washington Heights 2417 Grand Concourse 263–267 Henry St. The Grand Concourse Oldest Jewish Cemetery, 1656-1833 St. James Pl. near Chatham Sq. Sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer Dr. Jonas Salk Congregation Alumnus, City College Adath Israel Congregation 551 E. 169th St., Adath Israel 1283 Grand Concourse Baseball player City College of New York Hank Greenberg Convent Ave. & 138th St. 663 Crotona The Bronx Park North Jewish Theological Marx Brothers Playground Seminary Second Ave. / 96th-97th Sts. 3080 Broadway Upper West Side The Jewish Museum Fifth Ave. & 92nd St. Carlebach Shul, 92nd Street Y 305 W. 79th St. 1395 Lexington Ave. Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach Upper East Side Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Temple Emanu-El America-Israel United Nations votes to back State of Manhattan JCC 1 East 65th St. Friendship Grove, Israel, November 29, 1947 334 Amsterdam Ave. Comedian Yitzhak Rabin Walk Film mogul Jerry Seinfeld Shearith Israel Adolph Zukor Alumnus, 8 W. 70th St. Manhattan Queens College Central Astoria Studios (now Kaufman Synagogue Cosmetics Former U.N. 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Silvercup Studios Actress Tifereth Israel Synagogue 41-60 Kissena Blvd. Comedian First Ave. & 46th St. Community College 42-22 22nd St. Sarah Jessica Parker 109-18 54th Ave. Molly Picon Simon Wiesenthal NYC Tolerance Center Singers Paul Simon Yiddish Theater 226 E. 42nd St. and Art Garfunkel Center for Walk of Fame Williamsburg Jewish History 156 Second Ave. 15 W. 16th St. Shopping District Yiddish Theatrical Lee Ave. Artist Alliance Section Arthur Szyk Holy Ark, Mount Hebron Hebrew Union College Former Home of Forest Hills Jewish Center Cemetery 1 W. 4th St. Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum 106-06 Queens Blvd. 130-04 Horace Harding 500 Bedford Ave. Home of Art Garfunkel Bukharian Jewish Expressway Community Center 136-58 72nd Ave. Home of 6,500 Jewish 106-16 70th Ave. undergraduates Kew Gardens Hills Williamsburg Queens Keap Street Synagogue The Museum of Jewish Heritage Lower East Side 274 Keap St. 36 Battery Pl. Sign on American Jewish Williamsburg Tercentenary Flagpole Peter Minuit Plaza Crown Heights Boxing champion Mount Carmel Cemetery Benny Leonard 83-45 Cypress Hills St. Lynching victim King David Bakery Tandoori Bukharian Bakery 77-51 Vleigh Pl. Emma Lazarus Plaza Jewish Children’s Museum, Publisher 792 Eastern Pkwy. Battery Park Machpelah Cemetery S.I. 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