Archive for the ‘What’s Happening Now? – News And Updates’ Category
Daily News Story on National September 11 Museum and “Little Syria”
Today the New York Daily News posted this informative piece by Carol Kuruvilla about our efforts to preserve the neighborhood and to encourage the National September 11 Museum to include some recognition. We want to emphasize that we only went public with our frustrations after several years of local historians asking the Museum to incorporate the "Little Syria" history, and after months of meetings, emails, and conference calls where we repeatedly asked the Museum ...
Community Board One Resolution on “Little Syria” Historical Signage
On May 1, 2013, the Financial District Committee of Community Board One unanimously advanced the below resolution advocating signage for "Little Syria." While not all members necessarily voted or were present, the committee includes Edward Sheffe, CHAIR; Susan Cole, CO-CHAIR; Deron Charkoudian; Linda Gerstman; Mariama James; Michael Ketring; Joel Kopel; Elizabeth Lamere; Megan McHugh; Patricia L. Moore; Una Perkins; and Michael Skidmore. Our campaign, together with the Friends of the Lower West Side group, ...
Wall Street Journal Piece on Little Syria (Jennifer Weiss)
This morning the Wall Street Journal has a wonderful print and video piece about our campaign to protect the remaining complex of three historic buildings on Washington Street in Little Syria. This is indeed an urgent situation, and we would ask that people contact the Landmarks Preservation Commission (Chairman Robert Tierney) and Mayor Bloomberg, asking them to hold a simple hearing. No other major ethnic neighborhood has been devastated like Little Syria, and
Salaam Club in New York Hosts Holiday Hafleh To Benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
On Saturday, December 8, our friends at the Salaam Club of New York City hosted a holiday hafleh (the Arabic equivalent of "party") to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the internationally-known pediatric treatment and research facility in Memphis, Tennessee. Some people may not realize that the hospital was founded by popular Lebanese-American entertainer Danny Thomas. The evening event involved the presentation of awards to Wayne T. Muratore (Lifetime Achievement Award), Mona ...
Walking Tour of Washington Street on November 10 (With Joe Svehlak and Esther Regelson)
During Hurricane Sandy, lower Washington Street was flooded to near waist-high levels. Power is still trickling back, and the basements of most buildings were flooded, leaving some damage. However, a few of the neighborhood's great advocates -- local historian Joe Svehlak and community activist Esther Regelson -- are still going forward with a walking tour that they had scheduled for Saturday, November 10, 2012 at 2PM. If you are in New York and would ...
Community Board One Resolution on 109 Washington Street Tenement
In addition to its unanimous passage on June 28, 2011 of a resolution supporting the designation of the Downtown Community House at 105-107 Washington Street, Community Board One of Lower Manhattan also passed a resolution on April 17, 2007 supporting a hearing to consider landmarks designation of the 109 Washington Street tenement as well. The Save Washington Street campaign congratulates Catherine McVay Hughes in her new role as chairperson and encourages Community Board ...
The Syrian World – July, 1927
The Syrian World was an English monthly magazine that was published by The Syrian-American Press of 104 Greenwich Street in Little Syria. Salloum Mokarzel, best known as the co founder of the Arabic language daily, Al-Hoda, was the editor for The Syrian World which began publishing in June of 1926. The Syrian World contained political and cultural news for the Arab Americans during this time period. This issue in particular contains a script of the ...
Huffington Post Piece on Washington Street and New Report
Today we published a piece with the Huffington Post website about the preservation situation on Washington Street and about the new report prepared by Kate Reggev. Please "like" it and spread the word if you can, as we know that the Huffington Post is quite tied to social media!
New York Post and Latitude News Pieces on Washington Street
The campaign to protect 105-107 and 109 Washington Street received some important press attention in the last few weeks in the New York Post and in Latitude News. The article by Kate Briquelet in the Post ("Activists fight city to save last two buildings in 'Little Syria'") stresses the urgency of the preservation situation and demonstrates that city news organizations are taking notice of the crisis. In Latitude News, an innovative global ...
Harper’s Weekly, August 10th, 1895
The most commonly known portrait or picture of Little Syria is entitled "The Foreign Element In New York." This picture can be seen on the front page of our website amongst many other references to Little Syria posted on the internet. on the internet. I am posting this blog post to show you the exact source that it came from and where it was published. The text that is written in this story is one ...
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Daily News Story on National September 11 Museum and “Little Syria”
May 18, 2013
Today the New York Daily News posted this informative piece by Carol Kuruvilla about our efforts to preserve the neighborhood and to encourage the National September 11 Museum to include some recognition. We want to emphasize that we only went public with our frustrations after several years of local historians asking the Museum to incorporate [...]
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Community Board One Resolution on “Little Syria” Historical Signage
May 16, 2013
On May 1, 2013, the Financial District Committee of Community Board One unanimously advanced the below resolution advocating signage for “Little Syria.” While not all members necessarily voted or were present, the committee includes Edward Sheffe, CHAIR; Susan Cole, CO-CHAIR; Deron Charkoudian; Linda Gerstman; Mariama James; Michael Ketring; Joel Kopel; Elizabeth Lamere; Megan McHugh; Patricia [...]
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Wall Street Journal Piece on Little Syria (Jennifer Weiss)
March 26, 2013
This morning the Wall Street Journal has a wonderful print and video piece about our campaign to protect the remaining complex of three historic buildings on Washington Street in Little Syria. This is indeed an urgent situation, and we would ask that people contact the Landmarks Preservation Commission (Chairman Robert Tierney) and Mayor Bloomberg, asking [...]
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Salaam Club in New York Hosts Holiday Hafleh To Benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
December 14, 2012
On Saturday, December 8, our friends at the Salaam Club of New York City hosted a holiday hafleh (the Arabic equivalent of “party”) to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the internationally-known pediatric treatment and research facility in Memphis, Tennessee. Some people may not realize that the hospital was founded by popular Lebanese-American entertainer Danny [...]
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Walking Tour of Washington Street on November 10 (With Joe Svehlak and Esther Regelson)
November 6, 2012
During Hurricane Sandy, lower Washington Street was flooded to near waist-high levels. Power is still trickling back, and the basements of most buildings were flooded, leaving some damage. However, a few of the neighborhood’s great advocates — local historian Joe Svehlak and community activist Esther Regelson — are still going forward with a walking tour [...]
