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Stead. The gallery’s location gives vendors together and out of
it access to an underground art the way of traffic, especially
scene that uptown contemp orary police cars and fire trucks that
art galleries often neglect, and used the narrow streets.
it also offers lesser-known artists Two dozen meat, cheese,
the opportunity to exhibit their produce, and spice stalls fill the
work in a reputable gallery. market. Shopsin’s, an iconic
Many New York City artists who diner from Greenwich Village,
have been creating contemp- is among the stalls here. Also
orary art on the Lower East here are the Essex Restaurant,
Side for several decades have which serves Latin/Jewish fare,
already shown their work in and Cuchifritos, an art gallery
group exhibitions here. showing the work of the
Interior of the Angel Orensanz Center, neighborhood’s artists.
once a large synagogue
i Economy Candy
Reform Movement, and resem- a International
108 Rivington St. Map 5 B3. Tel 1-800
352-4544. q Second Ave-Houston bles Cologne Cathedral and the Center of
St. Open 10am–6pm Mon & Sat, Friedrich swerder sche Kirche Photography
9am–6pm Tue–Fri & Sun. in the Mitte district in Berlin. Museum
∑ economycandy.com After World War II and the
decline of Lower East Side’s 250 Bowery. Map 4 F3.
A Lower East Side landmark Yiddish population, the Tel (212) 857-0000. q 2nd Ave.
since 1937, this family-owned synagogue was one of many to Open 10am–6pm Tue, Wed,
candy store stocks hundreds close. In 1986, the building was & Fri–Sun, 10am–9pm Thu.
of varieties of candy, nuts, and acquired by Spanish sculptor Closed major hols. & 7
dried fruit. Lined with floor-to- Angel Orensanz, who turned it = 10am–5pm Tue–Sun. ∑ icp.org
ceiling shelves packed with old- into an art studio. It now serves
fashioned dispensers, the store as a spiritual and cultural center This museum was founded
is one of the few businesses with a program of events. by Cornell Capa in 1974 to
on Lower East Side that has conserve the work of such
remained almost unchanged in photojournalists as his brother
name and specialty throughout p Essex Street Robert, who was killed on
the neighborhood’s fluctuating Market assignment in 1954. The
fortunes over 50 or so years. collection of 12,500 original
This is due in no small part to 120 Essex St. Map 5 B3. Tel (212) 312- prints includes work by top
Jerry Cohen’s enterprise in trans- 3603/388-0449. q Essex St, Delancey photographers including Ansel
forming his father’s “Nosher’s St. Open 8am–7pm Mon–Sat, Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson,
Paradise” from a penny candy 10am–6pm Sun. 0 = and W. Eugene Smith.
∑ essexstreetmarket.com
store to a national company. The Special, temporary exhibitions
shop carries treats from all over are organized from the Center's
the world, as well as numerous This indoor market was created archive as well as from outside
food items dipped in chocolate in 1939 by Mayor Fiorello H. La sources. The museum moved
and 21 colors of candy-covered Guardia to bring pushcart into its current premises in 2016.
chocolate buttons.

o Angel Orensanz
Center
172 Norfolk St. Map 5 B3. Tel (212)
529-7194. q Essex St, Delancey St.
Open 10am–5pm Mon–Fri and by
appt. 7 ∑ orensanz.org
Built in 1849, this cherry-red Neo-
Gothic structure was once the
oldest synagogue in New York.
With ceilings 54 ft (16 m) high
and seating for 1,500, it was also
the largest in the United States at
the time. It was designed by the
Berlin architect Alexander Saelzer
in the tradition of the German Items on display at the indoor Essex Street Market

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