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Immigrant Heritage Day Walking Tour
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April 17th kicks off NYC's Immigrant Heritage Week as the day when Ellis Island set its record for processing immigrants. In celebration of this day and the many different ethnic immigrant groups that have come to the Lower East Side / East Village over the years we will walk in their footsteps and see what they saw with the Urban Archive app as our guide. On this walk, we will explore the sites together and meet with some of the local business owners whose paths brought them to the Village, creating the landscape we see today.
Essex Street Market
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Essex Street Marke, December 8, 1941. The Essex Street Market began in 1940 as part of an effort by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia to find a new place for street merchants to do business. At that time, pushcarts and vendors crowded city streets, particularly in the Lower East Side, making it hard for police and fire vehicles to easily pass. Flustered by congestion and unregulated activity, Mayor LaGuardia saw it fit to better organize the streets. He outlawed the practice, calling pushcart peddlers "a blemish on the face of the city," and financed the opening of the Essex Street Market. In a wider-effort to minimize overcrowding and improve public health and hygiene, he also developed various other indoor retail stores throughout Manhattan. The Essex Street Market closed in its original location on May 5, 2019. It will move into a new and larger home at the Essex Crossing development later in 2019.
The War on Pushcarts
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In the 1930s, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, one of New York's most powerful mayors, launched a war against an enemy that was ubiquitous on New York's streets: Pushcarts.
On the Lower East Side
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The Forward’s offices were at 175 East Broadway, just opposite Seward Park, in the heart of the Jewish Lower East Side. Naturally, local news was big news.
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119 Rivington Street
Manhattan: Essex Street - Rivington Street Essex Street, at, adjoining, and south of the S.E. corner at Rivington Street. The view also shows Rivington Street, at and adjoining the S.E. corner of Essex Street. July 17, 1929. P.L. Sperr.
130 Delancey Street
Theatrical School sign on second floor at 130 Delancey Street, New York.
122 Delancey Street
Street peddlers in front of 122 Delancey Street, New York.
120 Delancey Street
Man selling Yiddish song sheets at Northeast corner of Essex and Delancey Streets, New York.
99 Norfolk Street
Man holding advertisement for opening of Oriental-Romanian kosher restaurant located at 99 Norfolk Street, New York.
126 Delancey Street
Socialist Party sign on third floor at 126 Delancey Street, New York.
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Hot dog stand at Northeast corner of Essex and Delancey Streets, New York.
120 Delancey Street
Juicer demonstration at the corner of Essex and Delancey Streets, New York.
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Newsstand at Southwest corner Norfolk and Delancey Streets, New York.
Essex Street Market
Manhattan: Delancey Street - Essex Street Delancey Street, north side, east from Essex, to and including Norfolk Streets. September 25, 1936. P.L. Sperr. The sun on March 27, 1939 reports the proposed demolition of the one story corner building at the left. This is No. 116 Delancey St., at the N. E. corner of Essex St.
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Essex and Delancey Street. Essex Market.
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Gefilte fish demonstration at Essex market, May 1, 1941.
Essex Street Market
Manhattan 47, Essex St. Retail Markets, 140 Essex St; Jerry Spearman, Photographer
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Essex Street Market, 120 Essex Street, northeast corner Delancey Street
Essex Street Market
Essex Street Market entrance, 120 Essex Street, between Delancey and Rivington
Essex Street Market
Julius, "The Candy King," Essex Street Market, Manhattan
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