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Jewish rappers Beastie Boys honored with Lower East Side street renaming

The corner of Ludlow and Rivington streets — where the shop featured on the Jewish rappers’ second album, “Paul’s Boutique,” once stood — is now known as Beastie Boys Square.

By Lisa Keys September 10, 2023 6:50 pm

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This Jewish radio reporter was ‘the dean of the press corps’

Stan Brooks, who spoke to New Yorkers on the radio for over 40 years, was honored in 2014 with a street sign named after him.

August 31, 2023 9:45 am

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Golda Meir may be having a moment, yet her memory endures in a Midtown plaza

A bronze bust of Israel’s first and only female prime minister is located in a plaza in Manhattan’s Garment District. Since 1979, the stretch of Broadway has been known as Golda Meir Memorial Square.

August 24, 2023 12:28 pm

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Jewish rappers Beastie Boys honored with Lower East Side street renaming

This Jewish radio reporter was ‘the dean of the press corps’

Golda Meir may be having a moment, yet her memory endures in a Midtown plaza

The Jewish violinist who saved Carnegie Hall from the brink of destruction

Abe Lebewohl Park honors murdered 2nd Ave Deli founder and East Village ‘mensch’

Rose Feiss Boulevard honors a ‘small but mighty’ maven of the South Bronx

Anna Sokolow Way honors fierce Jewish dancer and choreographer

Cheesecake Corner in Brooklyn honors the Jewish founder of Junior’s restaurant

Greenwich Village intersection renamed for Jewish LGBTQ activist Edie Windsor

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