Take Five

… to their literature night and day ready to give information about the neighborhood cheerfully anytime … Alexander Avenue … … One of the original public buildings on the avenue is about to be repurposed … The library branch on Alexander … way of telling real estate speculators to stay away Curious about what it might look like to live in the area This  …

… of New York Not only did he not get a hit musical written about him but his name is misspelled on the street and alley … in the West Village a home on the Alley comes up only about once every seven or eight years According to that … not quite as rare as sales According to Lech they come up about once a year and some have their very own parking …

… at Yeshiva University wrote When Harlem was Jewish a book about the Jews who lived uptown from 1870 to 1930 Now Gurock has released his second tome about the neighborhood The Jews of Harlem the Rise Decline … be known as Harlems Jewish Historian Here are five things about Gurocks Jewish Harlem that you may not have known …