When Old Uptown was Young: Irish, Jewish and Greek Immigrants in Washington Heights and Inwood
June 12th, at 12PM
Virtual Via Zoom
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rUk1tDGxRwCjbZF43vTlmA
Lecture by Robert W. Snyder, Manhattan Borough Historian
Upper Manhattan is well known as the site of the largest Dominican community in the United States, but from the 1920s to the 1980s it was the home of large communities of Irish, Jewish and Greek immigrants and their children. Robert Snyder’s lecture will explore how they came to Upper Manhattan, how they settled in, and how they experienced the Depression, World War II, the postwar migration to the suburbs, and the years of high crime and economic turmoil that shook New York City in the late twentieth century.
Robert Snyder, Manhattan Borough Historian, is professor emeritus of American Studies and Journalism at Rutgers University. His books include Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York and All the Nations Under Heaven: Immigrants, Migrants and the Making of New York.
