Reconstructing New York’s Syrian Colony, Person-by-Person
An interview with Linda Jacobs by Todd Fine
In recent years, there has been a significant growth of interest in the Syrian Colony of the Lower West Side of Manhattan, frequently also called “Little Syria.” This classic multiethnic neighborhood had a dominant Arabic-speaking influence from the 1880s to 1940s, and it served as the “Mother Colony” for the substantial Syrian and Lebanese immigration to the United States. . .