View of the George Washington Bridge, photo taken by Tobi Kahn as a child when he lived in Washington Heights, 1950s. Courtesy of Tobi Kahn.
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Neighborhoods of New York City’s Manhattan Island. Courtesy of iStock by Getty Images.
The Mathias family preparing to board the “Deutschland” to immigrate to New York, January 1938. LBI Archives, Mathias Family Collection.
Aerial view of Washington Heights, 1952. Courtesy of YM & YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood.
German-Jewish newcomers learning English at “the Y”, April 18, 1940. Courtesy of YM & YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood.
Henry Marx shining shoes in Washington Heights, c. 1939. LBI Archives, Photos Collection.
Dedication of a new synagogue for the Jewish Orthodox Congregation Shaare Hatikvah in Washington Heights in 1957. LBI Archives, Kurt Goldschmidt Collection.
Image of barbershop in Washington Heights, 1961. Courtesy of Smithsonian American Art Museum, museum purchase through the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center, and through the Frank K. Ribelin Endowment.
Scene from the "Sosua: Dare to Dance Together," a musical produced by high school students from Washington heights that explored a remarkable intersection of the histories of two of the neighborhood's defining immigrant groups—Dominicans and German-speaking Jews. In the late 1930s, the Dominican Republic was one of the only countries to loosen its immigration restrictions to allow refugees from Nazi Germany to settle there. Courtesy of YM & YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood.
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