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The first I’d ever heard of 137 E. Houston St., on the Lower East Side, was when I went to the Ellis Island website recently to search for information about my grandparents coming to America. It was the address listed for Sam Bloomfield, the first name on the manifest of the SS New York when […]https://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jta-long-logo-bw.jpg600315