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Streit’s Matzo Factory, a Piece of Lower East Side History, Is Moving On

NEW YORK TIMES by Joseph Berger January 6, 2015 The grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the people who abandoned the squalor of the Lower East Side tenements have been moving back into those very same buildings, paying sums like $3,000 to … Continue reading

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Why American Jews Eat Chinese Food on Christmas

THE ATLANTIC by Adam Chandler December 23, 2014 …..The story begins during the halcyon days of the Lower East Side where, as Jennifer 8. Lee, the producer of The Search for General Tso, said, “Jews and Chinese were the two … Continue reading

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