Lower East Side Memories : A Jewish Place in America By HASIA R. DINER The Lower East Side and American Jewish Memory I'm Jewish because love my family matzoh ball soup. I'm Jewish because my fathers mothers uncles grandmothers said "Jewish," all the way back to Vitebsk & Kaminetz-Podolska via Lvov. Jewish because reading Dostoyevsky at 13 I write poems at restaurant tables Lower East Side, perfect delicatessen intellectual.
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Bar Marco is in the Strip District neighborhood of The Steel City. It’s a product of gentrification, or “the hipsterfication of Pittsburgh” as I like to call it. The building which was once a fire house stands alone a few blocks before flea markets reminiscent of New York City. The holes brave men used to down are covered by Renaissance-style tiles. My mother and I are greeted by a person present in all restaurants in the area which opened this decade: a dark-haired man with a beard wearing a shirt
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I had to move to New York cause of my mother’s job. I didn’t know what to think because I have no idea what New York is like. All I know is that it’s way different than living on an Amish Farm where everyday life is milking cows, sewing clothes, and churning butter. Moving to New York meant that I’d have to start going to public school which will be a big change from being homeschooled. Today is the first day of school, I’m extremely nervous. As I was hesitantly walking to the bus stop everyone was
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Moreover, one of our major goals of Glee Senior Living Center is to start it with our own capital from personal savings and getting loan from the bank in order to give it a good start and a great foundation, so once the business is officially running we want it to survive off its own cash flow without the need for injecting finance from external sources. We know that one of the ways of gaining approval and winning customers over by providing a conducive lodging for our residents, offer our services
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There are many unique artists to learn about, but Roy Fox Lichtenstein is a significant artist. Roy Lichtenstein was a popular pop artist, born and raised in New York in 1923. As a child, Lichtenstein spent most of his time in the Upper West of Manhattan. When he was a young boy, he was astonished by comic books and science. Roy was the son of Milton and Beatrice Werner Lichtenstein. His father was a real estate developer. As you can see, Lichtenstein had an interesting childhood and motive to become
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located in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York. It was built in 1765 as a summer villa, by Colonel Roger Morris and his wife, Mary Philipse. Their country estate was named “Mount Morris” and covered about 130 acres from the Harlem to the Hudson Rivers. Mount Morris was one of the highest points in Manhattan and offered views of New Jersey, Connecticut, and the New York harbor, something very helpful, especially in times of war. At that time the island of Manhattan was free of tall buildings and
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Never had your passport stamp or seen a passport stamp? Well, now you can at your local historic site, right here in York City. As an official member of the National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, the William C. Goodridge Freedom House located at 123 East Philadelphia Street is honored to announce that it has received its own National Park Passport Stamp. The William C. Goodridge Freedom House and Underground Railroad Museum is the first historic museum in York County
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Beauty in Many Forms “Which did you think was prettier New York City or the Smokey Mountains?” asked my friend, Savellia. I had been to the Big Apple on a winter vacation two years ago; this winter, during Thanksgiving break, my family and I ventured to Tennessee to see the mountains. Savellia’s question was very difficult to answer in that both trips had totally different but beautiful sights. New York City, New York is a very high maintenance, heavily populated, and extremely busy city. In 2013
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The Risk Management Monitor is the official blog of Risk Management magazine and provides daily stories, commentary, interviews, podcasts and videos related to the world of risk management and insurance. The editors of the Risk Management Monitor are Jared Wade, Emily Holbrook and Morgan O’Rourke. Jared Wade is senior editor of Risk Management magazine and first came to the publication in 2002 as a college intern from St. John’s University. Since graduating with a degree in journalism, Jared
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original Manhattan that existed For some, the new park would prior to the rise of the city. For increase adjacent property values urban environmental historians, and provide a leisure ground for though, there are two serious probrides in well-appointed carriages. lems with viewing the park in this way. Most of the city elite, though, First, Central Park is not nearly as offered less self-serving argunatural as it may appear. Far from ments, at least publicly. A large predating the rise of Manhattan, green
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