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...
Industrial Lower East Side, part 2: The 11th & 13th Wards, 1891
For well over a century, the Lower East Side's waterfront hosted Manhattan's primary industrial district. Among dozens of factories and...
“Perambulating Fountains” of the Lower East Side
Source: Directory of New York Charities, 1900 You are probably asking yourself, "What on earth is a 'perambulating fountain'?" Source:...