Lower East Side

By Margaret Tilley, Genealogy Specialist and Curatorial Projects Assistant

A Shul on Every Corner: Remembering Synagogues of the Lower East Side

Above, a boy stands before the oldest surviving synagogue building in New York City, located at 172 Norfolk Street. What was then a neighborhood fixture brimming with debates about Jewish identity and rite has, like many other Lower East Side synagogues, since faced…