Explore the Jewish Lower East Side: A Walking Tour Through History and Culture

Stroll through the neighborhood's 100-year-old history!

A century ago, the Lower East Side saw unparalleled growth as waves of immigrants settled, prayed, played, worked, shopped, and attended school in this neighborhood as they built their new lives in a new land. Today, there are signs of the past hidden within the modern streets. See how many of these historic places have been transformed, repurposed, or restored.

Highlights:

• Visit the Museum at Eldridge Street and see a fully restored magnificent 1887 synagogue
• Stop at Straus Square and learn about its history and its significance during the heyday of Jewish immigration
• Visit The Forward building and learn the role of this important Jewish newspaper and its Yiddish advice column A Bintel Brief
• Stop by Seward Park, the first municipally-built free playground in the United States and designed especially for the neighborhood’s children, the first generation to grow up in such crowded conditions

Join a Museum at Eldridge Street expert guide on Wednesday, October 22nd at 2:30pm as we walk in the footsteps of these immigrants and tell their stories.

Ticket Price (Includes Museum Admission): Adults $25 Seniors / Students $20 Children 5 and Under FREE Cool Culture Pass / SNAP Benefits $5

REGISTER HERE

This Museum at Eldridge Street Walking Tour is only available to small groups (25 people max). This tour is available to both individual ticket holders and families.

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About the Museum at Eldridge Street: The Museum at Eldridge Street is housed in the Eldridge Street Synagogue, a magnificent National Historic Landmark that has been meticulously restored. Opened in 1887, the synagogue is the first great house of worship built in America by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Today, it is the only remaining marker of the great wave of Jewish migration to the Lower East Side that is open to a broad public who wishes to visit Jewish New York. Exhibits, tours, public programs, and education initiatives tell the story of Jewish immigrant life, explore architecture and historic preservation, inspire reflection on cultural continuity, and foster collaboration and exchange between people of all faiths, heritages, and interests.

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Image Credit: "A Group of Peddlers (The Ghetto)," color postcard, William A. Rosenthall Judaica Collection Postcards.