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Red pins = Asian American / Chinatown sites (1–10). Blue pins = Jewish History / Lower East Side sites (11–16). Click any pin for the site name and address.
Church of the Transfiguration — 25 Mott Street What does this church’s history tell us about space, authority, and belonging in immigrant communities?
Quong Yuen Shing & Co. — 32 Mott Street What does the history of this store reveal about the challenges and resourcefulness of immigrant communities?
Chinese Theater — 5–7 Doyers Street What does the history of this site tell us about cultural connection for immigrant communities, and how does it complicate narratives of immigrant isolation?
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee — 6 Doyers Street (Chinatown Post Office) / 21 Pell Street (First Chinese Baptist Church) How does Lee’s story intersect with gender, ethnicity, and citizenship?
Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA) — 16 Mott Street What does this site tell us about immigrant communities forging their own political institutions when excluded from formal political life?
Port Arthur Restaurant — 7–9 Mott Street How did Asian immigrant entrepreneurs navigate the constraints of formal and informal exclusion?
Kimlau Memorial — 22 Chatham Square Who was Kimlau, and what might be significant about his military service in the larger narrative of Chinese American history?
Mahayana Temple Buddhist Association — 133 Canal Street What does this site reveal about the ways immigrant communities transform urban spaces?
Sun Yat-sen Plaza — Columbus Park, Mulberry Street & Baxter Street Who was Sun Yat-sen, what was his connection to Chinatown, and what does this statue tell us about immigrants and their homeland ties?
Lin Zexu Statue — 23 Chatham Square What was Lin Zexu known for, and what might his memorialization reveal about how Chinese Americans reflect on 19th-century imperialism?
Lower East Side Tenement Museum — 97 Orchard Street What does the history of tenement living tell us about the challenges and opportunities Jewish immigrants faced in the US?
Pushcart Market — Hester Street (between Orchard and Allen) What were the opportunities and challenges of the pushcart economy, and what does the political activism around it reveal about immigrant precarity?
Lewis Hine / Orchard Street — Orchard Street & Lower East Side Who was Lewis Hine, how was his work explicitly political, and how does it connect to how immigrant communities are surveilled today?
The Jewish Daily Forward Building — 173 East Broadway In what ways did this newspaper help immigrants navigate their transition from the old world to the new — and how was it more than a newspaper?
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) — Lower East Side neighborhood How did HIAS serve as both a communal organization and a political one?
Eldridge Street Synagogue (REQUIRED) — 12 Eldridge Street How does this site reflect the cultural needs of immigrants, and how does it also touch on the ways upward mobility and assimilation can hollow out ethnic enclaves?