Chabad of Gramercy?
I was walking around today and was pleasantly surprised when I passed by a Chabad House on East 20th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues (we Jews are everywhere). It looked like a brand new building, and yet the front doors were completely boarded up.
When I searched Google, the Chabad of Gramercy Park came up at 199 West 19th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues (Chelsea/Flatiron), with a complete and active website. So what’s going on at the East 20th Street location? Is the building abandoned? When I Googled the address, 340-342 East 20th Street, all that came up was a NY Times real estate listing from 1998 - the building was listed at a mere $785,000! Ah the good old days.
We need to spread the Jew love in neighborhoods other than the Upper West Side. If anyone has any further information as to the status of this building, please let us know.
February 28th, 2008 at 7:51 am
Accoring to Property Shark, 340 and 342 are 2 seperate lots, each being 20′ of frontage. I found a deed for 342 for $150K in 2007 for the Congregation And Talmud Torah Zichron Moishe, Inc.
February 29th, 2008 at 4:55 am
the building is now being renovated by chabad and will shortly be active in the meantime we have services on weekends friday night at 6 pm shabbat morning at 10am and shabbat afternoon at 5:45pm see you soon
Rabbi naftali