Eldridge Street
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File:Eldridge Street in A Plan of the City of New York (1776).jpg
Eldridge Street is a street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It extends north-south from East Broadway to Houston Street. Originally called Third Street according to the numbering system for the Delancey Farm Grid, it was named in 1817 for Lt. Joseph C. Eldridge, whose unit was ambushed by Indian allies of the British in Upper Canada during the War of 1812.{{cite streetbook|page=46}}
Notable locations
File:Eldridge St. Jail, NY (George Hayward).jpg
The Eldridge Street Synagogue at 12 Eldridge Street opened in 1887 and served Congregation Kahal Adath Jeshurun.{{cite book |last=Polland |first=Annie |title=Landmark of the Spirit: The Eldridge Street Synagogue |last2=Moyers |first2=Bill |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-300-12470-5|page=32}} It is one of the first synagogues in the United States erected by Eastern European Jews (Ashkenazis).{{cite nycland |page=45}}{{cite fromatoz |pages=60–61}} Since 2007, the synagogue houses the Museum at Eldridge Street.{{Cite news |last=Rothstein |first=Edward |date=December 1, 2007 |title=Return of a Long-Dormant Island of Grace |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/arts/design/01eldr.html |access-date=May 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=April 27, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240427010926/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/arts/design/01eldr.html |url-status=live }}
Eddie Cantor lived at 19 Eldridge Street.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/02/arts/my-manhattan-on-eldridge-street-yesteryear-s-schul.html |title=MY MANHATTAN; On Eldridge Street, Yesteryear's Schul |work=The New York Times |last=Rosen |first=Jonathan |date=October 2, 1998}}
20 Eldridge Street{{cite web|url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5e66b3e8-f083-d471-e040-e00a180654d7|title=Maps of the City of New-York|publisher=Perris & Browne|access-date=2017-05-14}} was Hook and Ladder Company Eagle No. 4 in the mid-19th century. Today the building, once two stories high, now five, is a Buddhist temple.
The New York County Jail, better known as the Eldridge Street Jail, was located at 22 Eldridge Street{{cite news |date= 1856-12-09 |title= Eldridge Street Jail Imprisonment For Debt |url= https://www.newspapers.com/image/50672003/ |newspaper= New York Tribune|location= New York |access-date= 2017-05-14}} and operated from 1836 to 1862,A. E. Costello, Our Police Protectors . History of the New York Police From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Chas. F. Roper & Co., 1884, p. 242 when it was replaced by a new jail on Ludlow Street. The jail building started out as a three-story private home and before becoming a jail was a first a school and then city watchhouse.
American lyricist Ira Gershwin was born at 60 Eldridge Street.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/25/arts/widow-of-ira-gershwin-endows-literacy-center.html |title=Widow of Ira Gershwin Endows Literacy Center |work=The New York Times |date=March 25, 1987}}
Musicians Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon of the American rock band Sonic Youth lived at 84 Eldridge Street in the 1980s.{{cite web |url= http://www.boweryboogie.com/2015/02/thurston-moore-kim-gordon-sonic-youth-lived-eldridge-street/ |title= When Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth Lived on Eldridge Street |author=Elie Perler |date= 2015-02-15 |website= Bowery Boogie |access-date= 2017-05-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220807024721/https://boweryboogie.com/2015/02/thurston-moore-kim-gordon-sonic-youth-lived-eldridge-street/ |archive-date=2022-08-07}}
105-107 Eldridge Street was the Eldridge Street Police Station from 1869 to 1912. Danish-American photographer and social reformer Jacob Riis took several photographs of the inmates there and documented their squalid living conditions in his 1890 book How the Other Half Lives.
Gallery
File:EldridgeStreetSynagogue.jpg|The Eldridge Street Synagogue
File:20 Eldridge Street.jpg|The buddhist temple in 2017
File:22 Eldridge Street.jpg|A store with Chinese signage on Eldridge Street
File:172 Eldridge Street.jpg|The Assafa Islamic Center, a mosque on Eldridge Street
References
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