The tragic case of Pesach Rubenstein, sentenced to die in 1876 after a sensational murder trial

A new hotel rises on the site of a century-old bank that was once essential for the neighborhood’s Jewish immigrants

Once a central feature of immigrant life in urban America, these mobile markets were eventually shoved aside. But their descendants may be making a comeback.

More than a century ago, police officers beat a crowd of Jewish mourners during a rabbi’s funeral procession—an event the Yiddish newspapers described as resembling a Russian pogrom

An ugly New York City extortion racket at the turn of the last century

A century ago, the Educational Alliance was educating a generation of Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side. Today, it’s serving a largely Hispanic and Chinese community—but holding on to its core Jewish values.

Second in a series on the anarchists and the Jews, civil war in the garment center

First in a series on the anarchists and the Jews: two uniquely Jewish contributions to American life and the global struggle for worker’s rights

Looking back 30 years later at the Lower East Side romance

A tour of the Lower East Side’s historic shuls brought me closer to my father

The proprietor of Zarin Fabrics and husband of Real Housewives star Jill Zarin has died at 71

The Tenement Museum’s new exhibit focuses on families who came to the Lower East Side relatively recently

Photographers Janet Russek and David Scheinbaum document what remains of the old Jewish neighborhood

There’ll never be a Moo Goo Gai Pan quite like Schmulka Bernstein’s

As the museum expands, so does its vision