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neighborhood, attendance waned,
and the temple closed in the
1950s. Restoration is now
underway and the synagogue has
become a vibrant cultural center.
d 12 Eldridge Street Map P5 Open
11am-4pm Tue-Thu, Sun Tours: 11am,
noon, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm Admission
charge www.eldridgestreet.org
The Changing Scene
Proving that change is the rule in
New York, the Lower East Side
has emerged as the newest
trendy area for clubs, restaurants,
and hip boutiques. Some
residents are even moving into
the tenement buildings their
great-grandparents fought to
escape from. Ludlow Street is
one of the best streets to get a
feel for the current scene.
Beth Hamedrash
Hagadol Synagogue
Artists can often be seen sketch-
ing this small, picturesque building.
It was constructed in 1850 as the
Norfolk Street Baptist Church, but
as the neighborhood changed,
the membership moved uptown,
and in 1885 the structure was
converted to a synagogue by
America's oldest Russian,
Orthodox Jewish congregation.
Gothic woodwork and the iron
fence from the original church
remain. d 60-64 Norfolk Street Map
P5 Open by appointment Free
business by mail, shipping all
over the U.S. d 85-87 Orchard Street
Map P5 Open 9:30am-6pm Sun-Thu,
9:30am-5pm Fri
St. Mark's Place
Once the heart of hippie-
dom, this block still has a counter-
culture feel and is headquarters
for the East Village youth scene.
Sidewalks are crowded until late
into the night with patrons of
funky, punky bars and shops sel-
ling music, books, T-shirts, vintage
clothing, beads, posters, and black
leather everything. The place to
get pierced or tattooed. d East 8th
Street, between 3rd Av & Av A Map M4
Guss' Pickles
One of the survivors from
the old days of the Jewish Lower
East Side, and a fixture for more
than 80 years, Guss' was even
featured in the movie, Crossing
Delancey . Fans stand in line on
weekends for their fix from the
barrels on the sidewalk filled with
pickles - sour and half-sour.
Guss' also does a thriving
St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery
Church
The second-oldest church in New
York stands on land where Peter
Stuyvesant, governor of Dutch
New York in the 1600s, had his
Left Beth Hamedrash Hagadol Synagogue Center Guss' Pickles Right Renwick Triangle
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