Division Street

  • Weekend Edition: December 4

    Weekend Edition: December 4

    [Photo Credit: David Sierra]

  • More on the Eldridge Street Synagogue Window [Video]

    More on the Eldridge Street Synagogue Window [Video]

    In Boardwalk Empire, Al Capone didn’t have the pleasure to see the two-month-old stained-glass window inside the Eldridge Street Synagogue.  Lucky for us, the masterpiece is a reality. On a related note, an [...]

  • Eldridge Street Synagogue in Boardwalk Empire

    Eldridge Street Synagogue in Boardwalk Empire

    A recent email blast from the Eldridge Street Synagogue confirms that the neighborhood landmark was in fact featured in Episode 10 of the HBO series Boardwalk Empire.  The scene in question actually transpires in [...]

  • Eldridge Street Synagogue Has New Stained-Glass Window

    Eldridge Street Synagogue Has New Stained-Glass Window

    Yesterday afternoon was the public unveiling of the new stained-glass window at the Eldridge Street Synagogue. An open house, as it were.  The sanctioned arwork is the final piece in the decades-old restoration of [...]

  • New Hotel Rising at 5 Allen?

    New Hotel Rising at 5 Allen?

    Down at the southern terminus of Allen Street, where the roadway forks into Pike, a narrow finger building is gradually on the rise. All signs point to this being a hotel, mere steps from another hotel in the [...]

  • Pike Loop Installation Removed

    Pike Loop Installation Removed

    It took a double-take before we finally realized what happened.  Walking down the Allen Street Mall near Division, the decrepit space was somehow different.  Lacking a certain something that, for the moment, we [...]

  • Jarmulowsky Bank Building Sheds Scaffolding

    Jarmulowsky Bank Building Sheds Scaffolding

    Holy Happy Shabu, Batman, the scaffolding is gone from the Jarmulowsky Bank Building on Canal Street. For years, this corner became a multipurpose space for graffiti artists and homeless alike.  Not anymore.