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Names & Numbers
Part of the grassland covering the island of Manhattan during the Lenape era, our land on today’s Norfolk Street lay a short but safe distance from the salt meadows of the East Side. The street, in...
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Teddy Roosevelt in “Little Hungary”
This is the story of President Roosevelt’s 1905 visit to Little Hungary, at 257 Houston Street, just around the corner of our building on Norfolk Street. Max Schwartz, owner of Liberty Hall and...
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Land Suit Leads to Wedding
This is the background story to a wedding in our building on December 26, 1910 with 700 guests, officiated by Rabbi Philip Klein of Ohab Zedek, First Hungarian Orthodox Congregation. A case in the...
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School Alert – 1864 Memo
In 1864 the Hebrew Free School Association came into existence, as the story goes, to counter the initiatives of Christian missionaries who opened a school on New York’s East Side that offered to teach...
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Happy Birthday Mr. Saeltzer!
Our architect, Alexander Saeltzer was born 200 years ago on July 31, 1814 in Eisenach, in the Grand Duchy of Saxon-Weimar Eisenach during the time of Grand Duke Karl August. His US passport application...
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A Christmas song from 1816
We have found a connection to one of the most famous German Christmas songs and our building. Johannes Daniel Falk, father of Gabrielle Saeltzer (wife of our architect,) writer, poet (friend of...
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