Author Archives: juancambeiro
Looking Forward, Looking Back
In 1907, Joel Russ, a Jewish immigrant from Galicia, Poland, arrived in New York. He peddled schmaltz herring (Yiddish for herring caught just before spawning) for a living from a pushcart on Orchard Street. At the time, the Lower East Side was … Continue reading
Zooming Out, Zooming In: Russ & Daughters
Due to the sheer amount of data that is available for analysis on Social Explorer, this post will focus on changes in the Lower East side between 1920 and 2015. Factors taken into account that are presumed to have had … Continue reading
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The Willets Point Conundrum
The redevelopment of the “Iron Triangle” can be understood in the context of a powerful economic force that is driving enormous changes in the economies of nations and municipalities everywhere: globalization. Unfortunately, industrial places like Willets Point don’t really have a … Continue reading
Your Story, Our Story: Schmaltz Herring
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The American Cuisine
Defining the American cuisine has eluded people for decades, and to this day it is very difficult to provide an overarching and comprehensive description of the American cuisine. This is in large part because of a myriad of confounding factors, … Continue reading
Russ and Daughters
I walked down East Houston Street on the Lower East Side on a chilly and dreary afternoon, scouring the neighborhood for a business where I could do my second interview after being turned down at three places. I then stumbled upon this … Continue reading
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Dead Rabbits Riot
The Dead Rabbits riot was a manifestation of the tension building in New York City and other major urban centers between immigrant-fearing Nativists and recently arrived German and Irish immigrants. Hundreds of members of both groups organized themselves into gangs … Continue reading
Oral History #1 : Stop One Gourmet Deli
My partner and I first learned about Stop One Gourmet Deli when we went to a bookstore dedicated to feminism/social activism called Bluestockings in the Lower East Side. In the interview at Bluestockings, we were told that the landlord of … Continue reading
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Jacob Riis’ Approach to Muckraking
The description of “Jewtown” in the Lower East Side by Jacob Riis’ in How the Other Half Lives is noteworthy in that it both movingly captures the plight of impoverished immigrants and uses racial slurs and stereotypes to get points across. Riis … Continue reading
“All these people may not love each other, but they tolerate each other”
I have always thought that people of different ethnicities and cultures keep to themselves and usually only interact with people who look, eat and pray like them. I had seen this in my own neighborhood – the majority Dominican population … Continue reading
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