Walking Tour: Jewish Lower East Side

Sun Jul 7, 2024
11:30am to 1:30pm ET
Age: 10+
Price: Adults $25; Seniors / Students $20; Children 5 and Under FREE
Location:
Museum at Eldridge Street
12 Eldridge Street, New York, NY, 10002
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Stroll through the Lower East Side's 100-year-old history and learn how many historic places have been transformed, repurposed, or restored.  

Highlights:

  • Visit the Museum at Eldridge Street and see a fully restored magnificent 1887 synagogue
  • Stop at Straus Square and learn about its history and its significance during the heyday of Jewish immigration
  • Visit The Forward building and learn the role of this important Jewish newspaper and its Yiddish advice column A Bintel Brief
  • Stop by Seward Park, the first municipally-built free playground in the United States and designed especially for the neighborhood’s children, the first generation to grow up in such crowded conditions

Ticket price includes museum admission. 

Image Credit: "A Group of Peddlers (The Ghetto)," color postcard, William A. Rosenthall Judaica Collection Postcards.

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