Final STC Tour of the Spring- Lower West Side: Downtown Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood – June 16, 11:00AM
Saturday, June 16, 11:00AM
Lower West Side: Downtown Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood
From the World Trade Center to the Battery west of Broadway, from the 1840s to the 1960s, existed a vibrant immigrant neighborhood. First Irish and German, then Middle Eastern (and known as “Little Syria”), by the First World War it was predominantly Slavic. In fact, in 1917, 27 nationalities were counted in this small area. Join Joe Svehlak of the Friends of the Lower West Side to hear the stories of those immigrant groups and the present-day struggle to preserve their history. Major redevelopment in the mid-20th century nearly wiped the neighborhood off the map, but this tour will explore what’s left of this once-thriving, diverse community, including a former Syrian church, the Downtown Community House, and a few remaining tenements and Federal style townhouses.
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