lower east side (new york, n.y.)

"Five children, from five different cultures and in five different decades, grow up in the same building on the Lower East Side of New York City"--Provided by publisher.

"Living on their own on Manhattan's Lower East Side while their Pop is off fighting in World War II, twelve-year-old Dory Byrne and her brothers discover an abandoned hotel that proves a perfect hideout just when they need it most"--.

When the rabbi asks him to drive the Mitzvah Mobile through the streets of New York's Lower East Side and invite everyone to the Hanukkah Bash, Mendel, who constantly messes up, learns that mistakes can happen and sometimes that's not so bad.

In 1912 New York, Gertie feels left out while Mama and her four older sisters cook Hanukkah dinner, but Papa comes home and asks her help with an important task.

In 1912 New York, Gertie feels left out while Mama and her four older sisters cook Hanukkah dinner, but Papa comes home and asks her help with an important task.

Nathan Seltzer, running a copy shop in the same building where he lives along with his wife, daughter, and parents, struggles to handle the changes coming to his life and his Lower East Side neighborhood in the 1980s, as he is faced with the dilemmas of whether to have an affair with Karoline, a German pastry maker, and whether to sell his store to a chain for an offered half-million dollars.

Nathan Seltzer, running a copy shop in the same building where he lives along with his wife, daughter, and parents, struggles to handle the changes coming to his life and his Lower East Side neighborhood in the 1980s, as he is faced with the dilemmas of whether to have an affair with Karoline, a German pastry maker, and whether to sell his shop.

The author's memoir of growing up white in a predominantly African-American and Latino neighborhood of housing projects on New York's Lower East Side during the 1970s and '80s.