Upper Manhattan is well known as the site of the largest Dominican community in the United States, but from the 1920s to the 1980s it was the home of large communities of Irish, Jewish and Greek immigrants and their children. Robert Snyder’s lecture will explore how they came to Upper Manhattan, how they settled in, and how they experienced the Depression, World War II, the postwar migration to the suburbs, and the years of high crime and economic turmoil that shook New York City in the late twentieth century.

Register on website. Continues June 12.