Memory Lane: Abels & Gold Realty Co.
It is a grand structure, built with detail and in a distinct style, the way homes used to be built. 1281 39th street, at the corner of 39th street.... read more
Memory Lane: Khal Mincha Chadashah Viznitz
Last week, we profiled the Shabbos that Harav Mottele Chodorov, the Tolna-Viznitzer Rebbe who arrived on these shores in the year 1921, spent in Boro.... read more
Memory Lane: A Chassidishe Shabbos in Boro Park of 1922
It was in the aftermath of the first wave of Eastern European immigration to the Unites States (between the World Wars), and the New York area was.... read more
Memory Lane: Reb Hershel (Hashy) Fisher’s Mesirus Nefesh
In the Nitra Kehillah of Boro Park, there was a legendary ba’al tefillah by the name of R’ ‘Hashy’ Fischer. His incredible heart,.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Chaim Pinchos Lubinsky; Churban and Rebuilding
As we rise off the ground in mourning for the Beis Hamikdosh, we focus our memory lane on Rav Lubinsky, who experienced the worst imaginable.... read more
Memory Lane: Reb Pesach Dovid Miller
Sometime in the 1880’s, a young bachur, Pesach Duvid Miller from Zborov, in Galica, jostled his way under the Shiniever Rav’s tisch. In the.... read more
Memory Lane: Stewart McDougall’s First House in Boro Park
It is a well-known fact that Boro Park started out as farmland—and it wasn’t all that long ago. The bustling shtetl that we know as such a center.... read more
Memory Lane: Boro Park and Politics, an old story
Although our readers may be exhausted from politics by now, we return once again to the relationship between Boro Parkers and their elected.... read more
Memory Lane: The Apsha Rav, Rav Moshe Yaakov Beck, zt”l
Apsha is a small hamlet in Rumania, divided into the sections Oiber Apsha, Mittel Apsha, and Unter Apsha (Upper, middle, and lower Apsha), in the.... read more
Memory Lane: When President Ford Came to Boro Park
Boro Park has in recent years had a voting problem—which has made it even less of an attraction for political candidates. But there was a time when.... read more
Memory Lane: Fort Hamilton Parkway
Fort Hamilton, situated at the other end of the Parkway which is named for it, has served the U. S. Army in a major way during every war beginning.... read more
Memory Lane: Kaplan Brothers Fish Market
For fifty years—from about 1920-1970—Kaplan Bros. Fish Market stood at the same spot that Ossie’s Fish occupied in later years (the current.... read more
Memory Lane: Candy Store “When Boro Parkers Could Get By Selling Cigars”
Time was when seemingly every block in Boro Park featured a candy store. And a candy story—especially a kosher one—was not lined with candy on.... read more
Memory lane: Baking in Boro Park for 50 Years The Weiss Bakery Tradition
When Rav Yisachar Dov of Belz, zy"a, came to Vienna for a Shabbos, the masses were gathered. But the absence of one 16 year old bachur concerned.... read more
Memory Lane: The Culver Line at 13th Avenue
A number of weeks ago this column brought you the stark contrast of the 37th Street Elevated railway looked like in the 1950’s, compared with what.... read more
Memory Lane: The Tenor that Trilled in Boro Park Cantor Mordechai Hershman, z”l
It sounds incredible, but the great, legendary chazzan Mordechai Hershman whose golden voice is only rivaled by his timeless pieces such as.... read more
Memory Lane: How Chevra Hatzolah of Boro Park got a hand-Crafted Backboard
Last week, we told the story of how the plight of a neighbor who waited one hour for an ambulance moved Reb Moshe Perlman, z”l, to donate the first.... read more
Memory Lane: The Tenor that Trilled in Boro Park Cantor Mordechai Hershman, z”l
It sounds incredible, but the great, legendary chazzan Mordechai Hershman whose golden voice is only rivaled by his timeless pieces such as.... read more