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The Ohio Jewish Chronicle
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Jewish Community since 19SS
VOLUME 71
NUMBER 7
FEBRUARY 18, 1993
27 SHEVAT 5753
DEVOTED TO AMERICAN AND JEWISH IDEALS
Dinner to honor patrons
of Schottenstein Talmud
page 2
Helen Zelkowitz receives
award from Boy Scouts
page 2
Children's Art Contest to be
special feature of Israel 45
page 3
Program presents one-sided
view of Arab-Israeli conflict
page 5
New Foundation fund aids
immigrant resettlement
s page 6
Israel launches Floating
Rate Issue Bond
page 8
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THE JEWISH TRAVELER
Chelsea-— A tranquil oasis in glitzy N^w York
By Aaron Leventhal
The, historic brownstone
West Side neighborhood of
Chelsea —, wedged between
the Hudson River, Greenwich
Village and Fifth Avenue —
offers the visitor a welcome
refuge from the glitz, glitter
and clamor of New York City.
Even though Chelsea has
undergone rapid gentrifica-
tion in recent years, it remains
essentially invisible to the
army of tourists flocking to the
Big Apple, Greenwich Village,
Soho, Tribeca and its other
nearby neighbors seem to garner all of the attention. After
exploring Chelsea for the first
lime last month, I strongly rec-
, ommend a visit to this historic
neighborhood be included in
your Manhattan itinerary.
Chelsea is one of New
York's oldest and most diverse neighborhoods, dating
back to 1750 when Columbia
University classics scholar
Clement Clark Moore's grandfather purchased a large tract
of land along the Hudson and
called it Chelsea, after the
London suburb. By the 1830s,
Moore began subdividing his
country estate into lots to develop what he envisioned to
be a unique urban residential
neighborhood of Green Re-
, vival and Italianate style row
houses. By the 1880s Chelsea,
stretching from the Hudson
River to Sixth Avenue and
14th to 34th Streets, had become the entertainment district of the city.
However, by the close of the
I9lh Century Chelsea went
into serious decline as resi-
Aaron Leventhal
dents and theaters'began a
mass exodus uptown, with artists and residents fleeing down
town to Greenwich Village.
Small factories, warehouses
and markets took root amidst
the gracious row houses as
working class immigrants —
first Italians, Germans and
Irish, then Blacks and Hispan-
ics — landed in Chelsea. Remarkably, through all the upheaval Chelsea remained a
stable,' safe and cohesive community.
Put aside the better part of a
day to stroll leisurely through
this ethnically and economically diverse neighborhood of
50,000 residents. It has a fc'el
more akin to Columbus' own
Short North than the cavernous avenues of skyscrapers
just to its' north.
Begin your walking tour at
see CHELSEA pg. 13