“Little Hungary” restaurant
Here is some memorabilia from the Little Hungary restaurant, formerly at 255-263 East Houston Street. A century ago it was...
David Sarnoff alerted the world of the Titanic disaster.
From a transmitter perched upon the roof of the old Wannamaker's Department Store in Astor Place, Lower East Side bred...
Ahoy? The St. Mark’s Place Navy
From The Villager, 3/1/12 By Eric Ferrara In February of 1891, a 35-year old German man named Christian C.W. Grassman...
Village’s ‘Little Hall of Fame’ had a memorable run
From The Villager, 2/22/12 Called the “Old Village’s Most Famous Exhibit” by The New York Times when it closed in...
Prison to Pad Thai, Bleecker building has seen it all
From The Villager, 2/16/12, by Eric Ferrara On the afternoon of Feb. 24, 1813, at the height of the War...
A Tale of Two Manhattan Islands, from The Villager
Suspected sites of locations discussed in the article. From LESHP director Eric Ferrara's new column in The Villager newspaper: A...
40 years later: Remembering Rocco Laurie and Gregory Foster
9th Precinct police officers Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie On the night of January 27, 1972, rookie NYPD officers Rocco...
The Lower East Side immigrants who influenced Hollywood
Some of the most tangible and significant contributions that turn-of-the-century European immigrants provided the world were in the field of...
Map: Churches of the Lower East Side, 1877
Click for larger map By the turn of the twentieth century, the abundance of houses of worship on the Lower...