Video Premiere - Virtual Sandwiched In with Ron Brown - The Lower East Side

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ESOL

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Adults
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In case you missed it, the Virtual Sandwiched In with Ron Brown - Lower East Side - held on 7/10/20 is now available on the Library's YouTube page.

Click [HERE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDHzIQGkzg8) to access the video.

Professor Ron Brown discusses the Lower East Side - A New Immigrant Heaven
It was called the Lower East Side because it was low, swampy, disease ridden, and insect infested. Only the poorest of the new immigrants lived there until they either died or had the means to get out. First came the Dutch and English until they were displaced by Irish and Germans in the early 1800s. Until today their churches still dot the neighborhood. Then half a million Eastern European Jews flooded in and left behind their tenements, shops, and synagogues. After the Second World War the Jews were gone and Chinese and Hispanics took over with their Buddhist temples and churches. It’s just a matter of time until new immigrants from Jupiter and Mars will populate the neighborhood.