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Abraham Cahan, leader, publisher, and writer, was the founding editor of the Forward, America's oldest independent Jewish news organization. Born in 1860, to an Orthodox family in Podberzhie a small shtetl near Vilna (Vilnius) Lithuania, in what is today Belarus, the unorthodox, socialist Cahan had been a revolutionary in his youth. He identified with the narodny (folks) movement that opposed the Czar and briefly believed in a kind of agricultural socialism. Escaping the Czar’s secret police along with his fellow communards of the Am Olam, movement, Cahan arrived in the U.S. in 1882 with the idea of creating agricultural communes here.
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59 Chrystie Street
Manhattan: Chrystie Street - Canal Street (1) Chrystie Street, west side, north from between Canal and Hester Streets. Arril 28, 1934. P. L. Sperr. (2) The same, slimhtly northward. April 28, 1934. P. L. Sperr.
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Decking on Chrystie Street Looking North: Chrystie Street Connection (NYCTA) As part of the documentation of the construction of the Chrystie Street Connection (NYCTA), negative documents decking on Chrystie Street between Canal Street and Delancey Street. Camera on east side of Chrystie Street, facing north. Also shows excavation, barricades, construction equipment, storefronts, and signage.
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Backfill in Cut on East Side of Chrystie Street Looking South: Chrystie Street Connection (NYCTA) As part of the documentation of the construction of the Chrystie Street Connection (NYCTA), negative documents the existing backfill of cut in road on east side of Chrystie Street between Canal and Delancey Streets. Camera in cut looking south. Shows cut, backfill, equipment, barricades, street, workers, Chrystie Street buildings to the west, Sara D. Roosevelt Park to the east, and the Manhattan Bridge Plaza collonade to the south.
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Manhattan: Chrystie Street - Hester Street (1) Chrystie Street, west side, south from Hester Street, to and including Canal Street. This view shows preliminary razing prio to grading. October 11, 1930. W. L. Sperr. (2) The same, showing grading, This site is now Roosevelt Park, and was completed in 1934. October 12, 1931. P. L. Sperr.
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Social conditions - \[Unemployed ; An old man eating five-cent-lunch.] 20268 UNEMPLOYMENT IN NEW YORK CITY An old man eating a five cent lunch in Mr. Zero's Tub, 55 Chrystie Street, in the Bowery. BY EWING GALLOWAY, N.Y.
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