Long-awaited monument to Little Syria moving forward in Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza
4 July 2023
Tour guide dubs Little Syria ‘The best-kept secret in New York history’
2 July 2023
How scholars are retrieving Manhattan’s vanished Syrian American past
Summer 2023
New York, New York: The first Arabic-speaking community in The United States
21 April 2023
Non-prof outlines plan for ‘safe haven’ shelter on Washington Street
18 December 2020
Concrete plazas will be transformed into a new park in FiDi
23 August 2019
Preservations call for landmarking of Little Syria vestiges in Lower Manhatten
5 June 2019
New park, Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza, will commemorate literary legacy of NYC’s Little Syria
30 January 2017
In a time of immigration turmoil, artist chosen to honor Arab Americans
6 February 2017
FiDi’s once-vibrant Arab neighborhood, Little Syria, remembered in new park
2 February 2017
Little Syria’s writers to be memorialized
30 January 2017
What’s left of New York’s Little Syria: a short but rich tour
19 October 2016
Local historians fight to commemorate ‘Little Syria’
5 August 2016
Record of mosque hints at Muslims’ long history in New York
10 December 2015
In Lower Manhatten, memories of ‘Litte Syria’
25 March 2013
In New York’s Little Syria, a fight to preserve the past
21 September 2013
Activists fight city to save last two buildings in ‘Little Syria’
24 June 2012
Little Syria, NY
November/December 2012
Little Syria (now Tiny Syria) finds new advocates
1 January 2012
(Arabic حملة لحماية تراث العرب الأميركيين)
30 November 2011
Little Syria
17 September 2011
An Arab for ground zero
24 May 2011
Zoom webinar: WSHS board member Linda K. Jacobs | the Syrian colony in NYC 1880-1900 | afikra conversations
12 October 2021
Zoom webinar: saving the heritage of Arab writers in New York and a monument to honor them.
27 February 2021
Podcast episode: “Little Syria” featuring voices from the community.
Sep 2020
Literary partners program: celebrating the Arab American poets of Khalil Gibran’s pen league
March 2019
Elizabeth Berger Oark ground breaking/Al_Rabitah memorial
Sep 2019
How we remember: the ways in which we memorialize and how we preserve collective memory
7 October 2018
Preserving New York City’s ‘Little Syria’
7 Feb 2012
Aug 2012
July 2022
In 2012, we commissioned a report by architectural expert Kate Reggev to document the importance of the Downtown Community House and the 109 Washington Street. Here you can read the report and its attached images. Work with us to discover additional information.