"Crossing Delancy"

As we wandered down the streets of the lower-east-side being pestered to buy "genuivine Leether jeekets" by Russian oligarchs-on-the-rise, you could sense (and I think smell) the generations of immigrants that came through this area on their way to a better life in "Ahmerika". There are still remnants (some of them living!) of these immigrant waves - Irish pubs, chinese trading-houses and "Joooish" .....you guessed it - "Shmatteze-traders" (is that the correct spelling...wait I will check with our Italian-American superintendent...he speaks a mean 'Bialystoker yiddish').

We stumbled across a local museum (www.tenement.org) dedicated to preserving the memories and experiences of those who lived here. Quite a testament to...the tenements! (Ha). No really, one can virtually trace how Matze-Ball soup and Won-Ton soup crossed paths to become "Hot-Pot-Chicken "fusion" food (or as its called in the USA "Taco Bell"). Photo's by our resident "genioos" Dr. N. G. Brooks!