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...Number of people who attended services during the High Holy Days at the Eldridge Street Synagogue, the spiritual home of the first Eastern European Orthodox Jewish congregation in America. Crowds were so great after the synagogue opened in 1887 that mounted policemen patrolled the area and people paid rent to reserve their seats in the pews...
...Circulation size in the U.S. of the Yiddish-language Jewish Daily Forward in the early 1930s, when its headquarters were located at 175 East Broadway, a 10-story office building with a facade featuring carved bas relief portraits of Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx...
...Number of Romaniote (Greek Jewish) synagogues that remain in the Western Hemisphere. The lone synagogue is Kehila Kedosha Janina at Broome and Allen Streets...
...novelist Richard Price's Cafe Berkmann in his acclaimed 2008 novel Lush Life, which explores the conflicting identities of the neighborhood through the murder of a Lower East Side hipster by a street kid. The influx of well-off young people has been controversial. The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy derisively calls the changes "hipification" and "Yupification...
...butt up against one another in an uneasy but (to the outsider) exhilarating whorl: a mere corner of a city block can contain a Mexican vendor selling sweet flavored ice, a Middle Eastern cart full of fresh mangoes, a Dominican cafe cooking spicy sandwiches, and an old Jewish deli hawking hunks of pastrami (all cheap, for the visitor). Some blocks resemble a World's Fair of bargain grocery stores, places of worship, and trendy bars. Red brick housing projects hide not far away. Even while standing at the base of a solid and impressive historic landmark, the outsider cannot escape...