Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Manhattan, the urban core of New York City. Its Lower East Side neighborhood was a center of Jewish immigrant culture in the 20th century.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Manhattan, the urban core of New York City. Its Lower East Side neighborhood was a center of Jewish immigrant culture in the 20th century.
Jared Kushner has sold his stake in his family’s office tower and business headquarters in midtown Manhattan, as part of his promised effort to avoid conflicts of interest while serving as a White House senior adviser. “Mr. Kushner’s ownership interests were sold using a third-party appraisal for fair market value to a family trust, of…
Maxwell Levy seems to be due for a December visit from Scrooge, as his landlords attempt once more to evict the nonagenarian from his six-room apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. “They want to get my apartment because they can make a lot more money,” the 94-year-old, who has lived in the same building since…
The swastika sighted this week on 104th Street and Broadway in Manhattan was one of several hateful scrawlings in the neighborhood, according to local reports. A number of buildings and phone booths between 104th and 105th Streets on Broadway were tagged with swastikas, “KKK” and “Nazi,” DNAInfo reported. All the graffiti appeared to be done…
New York’s hate graffiti wave got its Broadway debut on Wednesday, after a Manhattan woman found a swastika scribbled onto the side of a building on the Upper West Side. Neighborhood resident Lauren Monchik told the Forward she discovered the swastika on the building, located on the intersection of 104th Street and Broadway. She notified…
CNN political reporter Jake Tapper is commemorating the fourth anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre by tweeting out the names and photos of the 26 victims who perished in the shooting at the Newtown, Connecticut elementary school. The victims included 20 first graders and six educators, including Sandy Hook’s principal Dawn Hochsprung. The youngest victim…
The country’s post-election hate crime wave struck New York once more on Sunday, after the discovery of swastikas and the phrase “Praise Trump” graffitied onto a phone booth located at West 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, according to a Monday report in DNAInfo. A woman notified police of the vandalism, when she noticed the vandalism…
Jew hatred hit home Wednesday night for New York State Senator Brad Hoylman, who found a swastika carved into a wall in his apartment building and posted it to Twitter. Swastika found in my apartment building this evening in Greenwich Village. Anti-Semite named to #Trump White House post. Connect the dots. pic.twitter.com/3OlD8hewyF — Senator Brad…
Gina Zuckerman has always been a tough cookie. The 90-year-old Greenwich Village woman survived the Holocaust, worked in the testosterone-infused culture of Madison Avenue, and still lives alone and independently in her studio apartment. So a female mugger who tried to snatch Zuckerman’s purse got more than she could handle when the nonagenarian fought back…
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