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unusual facts about Second Avenue



La Salle Academy

In 1856, St. Vincent's School moved to East Second Street and Second Avenue, a plot of land that once belonged to Washington Irving.


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Arnold Perlmutter

In 1906 Perlmutter and Wohl composed the music for a romantic drama in English, The Shepherd King; in 1909, Boris Thomashefsky's Dos Pintele Yid and Di sheyne Amerikanerin; and for scores of other historical operettas of the Second Avenue Yiddish Theater District theaters through the early years of the twentieth century.

Austin E. Lathrop

The Lathrop Building (516 Second Avenue, completed 1936) would be sold to Jim Whitaker and his wife for what has been publicly described at numerous civic meetings as being pennies on the dollar.

Boris Rosenthal

He then emigrated to America, where he played from 1913-1917 in Philadelphia, and then a year in New York's Yidishe kunst teater (Jewish art theater) and then in Boris Thomashevsky's National Theater and then Kessler's Second Avenue Theater and the Public Theater.

Erzsébet Földi

In 1989, as a third-year student at New York University, she performed Paul Taylor's Esplanade with the Second Avenue Dance Company at the Tisch School of the Arts theater.

Grace Institute

Under the leadership of Grace Institute President J. Peter Grace, grandson of William Russell Grace and chairman and chief executive officer of W. R. Grace & Co., the Institute chose to construct a new school on Second Avenue between 64th and 65th Streets.

Jenny Valliere

Along with Molly Picon, she was a star at New York City's Second Avenue Theater in the Yiddish Theater District; a 1925 New York Times article singles them out as the only women whose talents provided the major anchor for a New York Yiddish theater at that time.