95 Allen Street is the white building. On the same block, to the left and around the corner, is 282 Broome St.
Restaurants flank 95 Allen entrance.
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Abraham Simon of 95
Allen Street is in the 1910 New York City directory, and it lists his occupation as "juice." During that period, he was actually in the sacramental wine business. The maps below are from an atlas published in 1916. The large synagogue at the top (Delancey St.) is now an Hispanic Seventh Day Adventist Church. The block across the street, where the map indicates another synagogue, is now filled with community gardens. Synagogue and garden photos follow.
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An outhouse and a
backyard well When Abraham Simon moved into the six unit walk-up at 95 Allen, there
was a well in the backyard and also, an outhouse, according to Larry Rogers. In 1990,
he told me that his grandfather "modernized" the house by installing cold
running water and a toilet on each floor. The Second Avenue elevated subway ran on Allen Street, passing by the Simon house. Larry Rogers remembered from his visits there when he took the train with his brothers and mother from their Essex Street home in Brooklyn to visit her parents. "The 'el' passed by so close to the house that it seemed as if you could just lean out a window and touch it," he said. |
