This is 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.
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Community The Manhattan Eruv Needs Your Help
The Manhattan Eruv is one of the world’s largest, and most impressive Eruvin. It reaches from the UWS to the UES, from Harlem to Battery Park. It is run quietly, with incredible efficiency and humility; supervised by the Mechon L’Hoyroa in Monsey and run by Rabbis Adam Mintz, Yosie Levine, and Gavriel Bellino. The Eruv…
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Fast Forward Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Buys $40 Million Manhattan Retirement Pad
Howard Schultz has bought one of Manhattan’s most expensive penthouses as he prepared to leave his position as the chief executive officer of Starbucks and head into semi-retirement. Located in Greenwich Village, on the former site of St. Vincent’s Hospital, the apartment spills over the 16th and 17th floors of 155 West 11th Street. It’s…
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Fast Forward As Promised, Jared Kushner Sells Off Stake in Manhattan Office Tower
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…
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Fast Forward 94-Year-Old Manhattan Man Threatened With Pre-Hanukkah Eviction
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…
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News More Swastikas Found on Manhattan’s Upper West Side
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…
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Fast Forward Another Swastika Found on NYC Building
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…
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Fast Forward CNN Reporter Pays Tribute to Sandy Hook Victims on 4th Anniversary
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…
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News Swastika and ‘Praise Trump’ Graffiti Found on Manhattan Phone Booth
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…
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