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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. General Assembly Building Astoria Studios) 123 E. 55th St. entrepreneur (Now Queens Museum of Art) 34-12 36th St. Estee´ Lauder Garment Center Monument Comedian 555 Seventh Ave. Adam Sandler Holocaust First Resource Center, Woman Rabbi Free Synagogue of Flushing Isaiah Wall, Queensborough Sally Priesand. 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. Newhouse, Sr. Steiner Studios 8230 Cypress Hills St. Brooklyn Navy Yard Baron Hirsch Kane Street Synagogue Lubavitch World Brownsville 236 Kane St., Cobble Hill Headquarters Cemetery Poetess Rabbi 770 Eastern Pkwy. 1126 Richmond Ave. Emma Lazarus Menachem Bobover Synagogue Schneersohn Magician Harry Houdini 48th St. & 15th Ave. Brooklyn (Ehrich Weiss) B’Nai Jeshurun Synagogue 199 Victory Blvd. Temple Emanu-El Borough Park 984 Post Ave. Zion Park War Memorial Pitkin and Temple Beth El East New York Aves. 4802 15th Ave. Henry Kaufman Mount Richmond Cemetery Erasmus Hall High School El Al Israel Airlines Campgrounds 420 Clarke Ave. 911 Flatbush Ave. Flora Haas Day Camp Supreme Court Justice Singer Ruth Bader Ginsburg Neil Diamond JFK International Airport 1584 E. 9th St. Singer Staten Island Barbra Streisand Knesseth Israel Synagogue 728 Empire Ave. Boardwalk Coney Island to Filmmaker Woody Allen 1144 E. 15th St. The Rockaways Holocaust Memorial Park Coney Island Sheepshead Bay Temple Beth El of Rockaway Beach 121-16 Rockaway Beach Blvd New York Board of Rabbis ©2007 New York’s Jewish Mayors The Lower Jewish Business Success Jewish City Hall East Side Abraham Abraham partners with Labor Movement The corner of Straus Brothers, owners Triangle Shirtwaist Abraham Beame Hester St. and of Macy’s, 1893 Factory fire spurs (1974-77) Ludlow St., 1905 Jewish trade union movement, 1911 Jewish Exodus from Eastern Europe Marcus Goldman partners Michael Bloomberg U.S. Immigration Station, Ellis Island, 1892-1924 with son-in-law Samuel Sachs, 1882 Edward Koch (1978-89) (2002- ) 79419_side1_Map_V3_r1.qxp_jewish text mapANEW2gara5.0.qxd 6/15/18 3:08 PM Page 1 www.brooklynjewish.org declared a National Historic Landmark, and is open to visitors. Anshe AROUND THE UNITED NATIONS Neshama Carlebach is a popular Jewish entertainer. Shearith Israel Chesed (172 Norfolk St.) dates from 1849 and is the oldest structure in The Isaiah Wall (First Ave. & 46th St.) is inscribed with the Old (The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue) (8 W. 70th St.), founded by (BJHI) Initiative Historical New York built as a synagogue. It is now The Angel Orensanz Art Testament prophet’s famous words, “They shall beat their swords into the Sephardic Jews who arrived in 1654, is New York’s oldest congrega- JewishA History &New Heritage York Map Center. Beth Hamidrash Hagadol (60 Norfolk St.) occupies a former plowshares.” In the 1980s, demonstrations here called for the freeing of tion. Within this impressive synagogue (built in 1897) is the “little syna- elcome to Jewish Brooklyn church purchased by Orthodox Jews in 1885. It is the proposed site for a Soviet Jews. Today the staircase is named after Natan Sharansky, a gogue” modeled after the congregation’s 1730 home on Mill St. and con- W LOWER MANHATTAN LES visitors’ center. Congregation Kehila Kedosha Janina (280 Broome prominent Soviet dissident. The Holocaust Memorial at taining original relics and furnishings. Rodeph Sholom (7 W. 83rd St.) is ewish New York Southern Manhattan, New York’s oldest district, St.) is the only synagogue in the western hemi- Dag Hammarskjold Plaza (47th St. between First and Second Aves.) the largest Reform congregation on the West Side and home to a popular Statue of Liberty, J has numerous sites associated with the earliest New York sphere serving Romaniote Jews. Inside, a small features seven sculptural reliefs by artist Arbit Blatas. The Simon day school. years of Jewish life in New York. The Harbor museum tells the history of this ancient branch Wiesenthal Center’s New York Tolerance Center (226 E. 42nd St.) Tercentenary Flagpole (Peter Minuit Park), erect- of Judaism that took root in Greece during features exhibits and programs dedicated to promoting respect for diver- NORTHERN MANHATTAN ed in 1954, commemorates the three-hundredth Roman times. The Bialystoker Synagogue sity and human dignity. Around 1900 Harlem was a thriving Jewish community. Congregation anniversary of the arrival in 1654 of twenty-three (7 Bialystoker Pl.) was established in 1905 to Ohab Zedek, located at 18 W. 116th St. from 1908 to 1929, had the Jews expelled from Brazil. These Sephardic Jews serve immigrants from the close-knit Jewish First Jewish UPPER EAST SIDE great cantor Yossele Rosenblatt, who appeared with Al Jolson in the first formed Congregation Shearith Israel, which prayed Cemetery St. James Pl. Central The Jazz Singer community of Bialystok in eastern Poland. near Chatham Sq. To the east of Central Park are two famous Reform synagogues. talking picture, in 1927. in private homes before building the First Synagogue (123 E. 55th St.), built in 1872 in the Moorish style by Henry From the Mayor of New York City Synagogue in 1730 on Mill Street (now William Guss’ Pickles (35 Essex St.) is a throwback to the old LES when Essex Fernbach, America’s first prominent Jewish architect, is now a National Washington Heights, the neighborhood north of Harlem, saw an influx St.). That structure is lost, but relics survive at Street was lined with food stores. Kossar’s Bialys (367 Grand St. near Historic Landmark. Temple Emanu-El (1 E. 65th St.), completed in of German Jews in the years after World War II. Sex therapist and radio New York is the world’s most diverse City – regardless of your back- Shearith Israel’s current location on West 73rd Essex) features bialys, the flat baked onion rolls first brought to America 1930, is the largest Jewish house of worship in the world. Within the personality Dr. Ruth Westheimer was president of the local YM-YWHA ground, the Big Apple will feel like home. The full-size, colorfully Street (see below). The First Jewish Cemetery by Bialystoker immigrants. Orchard Street (from Grand to Houston Sts.) temple is the Herbert and Eileen Bernard Museum of Judaica. (54 Nagle Ave.) for many years, and still lives here. illustrated Jewish New York History and Heritage Map is an ideal way (St. James Pl. near Chatham Sq.) has gravestones has always been the district’s main shopping street. Amidst new, trendy to explore the rich Jewish history of our City, which has added so much dating back to 1656 and the tomb of Gershon stores one can still spot stores and signs reminiscent of the days when Park Avenue Synagogue (50 E.