Lower East Side Heritage Collection

06/24/2017

Tonight! Our very own Andrew Fairweather will be on a panel for the opening of artist and architect Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong's "Constellation", a public architectural sculpture right outside the library in Seward Park. He will briefly discuss the Heritage Collection and the history of the Seward Park Library and Seward Park itself.

05/15/2017

A piece of LES history, lost.

http://www.boweryboogie.com/2017/05/assessing-the-scorched-remains-of-beth-hamedrash-hagadol-synagogue-on-norfolk-street-photos/

05/15/2017

04/24/2017

04/14/2017

THURSDAY, 4/20 @ 7pm...

NYPL, in collaboration with The Moth Community Program, presents: LES Stories Share! ...listen to some extraordinary stories from participants in our recent workshop.

https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2017/04/20/lower-east-side-stories-shared-live-presented-nypl-collaboration-moth

02/25/2017

TOMORROW--Our very own Andrew Fairweather will be a part of a round-table discussion about the Jewish cultural treasures of the Lower East Side at the Museum at Eldridge Street to speak about the NYPL's LES branch of the Oral History Project. We hope you can make it!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jewish-new-york-conversation-and-reception-tickets-29862527624

This round-table discussion on historic and cultural treasures of the Jewish Lower East Side features Niki Russ Federman, fourth generation co-owner of Russ & Daughters, Russ & Daughters Café and Russ & Daughters at the Jewish Museum; Alexandra Kelly, Manager of the New York Public Library’s Lower E...

01/18/2017

Lower East Siders:

Join us Tomorrow at the Seward Park Branch of the New York Public Library for the Lower East Side Oral History Kick-Off to celebrate the launch of our historic neighborhood oral history project!

Thursday, January 19th at 6pm
192 East Broadway
New York 10002

**LISTEN to oral history highlights.

**PREVIEW images from the LES Heritage Collection.

**WATCH the 1974 LES-based film Yudie on 16mm.

**MEET neighbors, share stories.

**LEARN how to contribute as an interviewer or interviewee!

• RSVP at [email protected] or 212-621-0552

We'll be waiting for you on the second floor!

09/26/2016

The New York Public Library needs interviewers to collect oral histories in the Lower East Side!
Be a part of a growing collection of community based oral histories hosted by the NYPL. The latest area of focus will be the Lower East Side. Training sessions will be held at the Seward Park, (192 East Broadway) the Ottendorfer, and Tompkins Square Branch libraries in late October--please see the flyer for more details.
To sign up, please call:
212-621-0552
or email:
[email protected]
Thanks!

05/12/2016

NEXT WEEK: Another screening at the Seward Park Library!

https://www.facebook.com/184768068227826/photos/a.188212244550075.33690.184768068227826/1398154870222467/?type=3&theater

SEWARD PARK LIBRARY 16 MM FILM SCREENING
THURSDAY, MAY 19 @ 6:15 PM
SEE FLYER FOR MORE INFO

04/15/2016

Librarian Esther Johnson was hired 100 years ago in May of 1916 to begin work at the Seward Park Library--Johnston recounts what it was like to work on the old East Side 50 years later in 1966... and we have a few reflections of our own in 2016.

http://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/04/14/esther-johnston-seward-park

03/30/2016

TOMORROW'S FILM SCREENING:
Thursday, March 31, 2016, 6:15 - 7:30 p.m.
@ The Seward Park Library

Sewing woman [motion picture]

Arthur E. D**g.1 film reel (14 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 16 mm.

Based on a collection of oral histories and the life of Zem Ping D**g, the filmmaker's mother, this film presents the life of a Chinese immigrant woman who worked in America's garment factories for over 30 years. Married in China at age 13, the "sewing woman" immigrated to the U.S. as a war bride, leaving behind her eldest son. As yards of fabric pass through her machine, the woman relates her gradual adjustment to life in the U.S. and the eventual reunion of her entire family. D**g's film combines footage shot in the villages of China and the factories of San Francisco's Chinatown with old home movies and personal photographs.

The Golden mountain on Mott Street [motion picture]

1 film reel (34 min.) : sd. b&w. ; 16 min.

Discusses the Chinese immigrant and the complex problems that confront him and his children as an ethnic minority in the United States.

02/24/2016

TOMORROW--Drop by the Seward Park Library for:

Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer

(16 mm color film, 1986, 58 minutes) Director: Judd Hirsch

This documentary examines the life and work of Yiddish author Isaac Bashevis Singer. It follows the writer, now in his 80's, strolling the streets of his Upper West Side New York neighborhood, on speaking tours and at writing sessions. As Singer reminisces about his youth in Warsaw, his immigration to the United States in 1935, and his apprenticeship at the Jewish Daily Forward, the film interweaves dramatic sequences from the author's A Day in Coney Island, a short story based on his first impressions of America.



All Public Library Programs are free of charge.



Thursday, February 25

6:15 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

Seward Park Library, Community Room