Century-old East Village tenement synagogue to be torn down – and hundreds of historic NYC sites face same risk, advocates say
This vintage house of worship doesn’t have a prayer. The site of a former century-old synagogue for Ukrainian immigrants in ...
The New York Times1mon
Tenement Houses, and How to Build Them.
This building was designed by the philanthropic projecters to show the practicability of providing comfortable, well-ventilated tenements, secure against fire, and supplied with most modern ...
The Austin Chronicle25d
What do you do with a dead body? Call your friends.
A tenement building in the East Village of New York City. A large cast of outsized characters. Throw in a dead body, and now you've got a movie. Bunny, by first-time director Ben Jacobson ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency22d
A 100-year-old former synagogue in the East Village will become luxury condos
The Lemberger Congregation Anshei Ashkenaz, converted into a church around 1970, is one of the last remaining tenement synagogue buildings in the neighborhood. One of the last remaining tenement ...
heraldscotland22d
Toolkit to support retrofit of historic tenements launched
It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A new resource to support property factors to retrofit tenement buildings in Scotland has been launched. Co-created by researchers at the ...
Dublin Gazette2d
Henrietta Street launches artwork with pieces 300 years old
Dublin City Council’s 14 Henrietta Street museum has unveiled new artwork which incorporates materials over 300 years old. It remembers the lives of the women who lived in Georgian Dublin, ...