Slavs of New York

The other week, Slavs of New York was lucky enough to join the Municipal Arts Society’s walking tour of Bohemian National and the Sokol Halls, led by Joe Svehlak. ...

Bedford-Stuyvesant, in north central Brooklyn, is not an obvious neighborhood to get the Slavs of New York walking tour treatment. While the neighborhood may have been home to some Poles long ago, they did not leave much of a trace...

Brighton Beach has a long history, but its status as Little Odessa dates from just the 1970s...

As we're catching up on our blogging, here's a selection of recent news:Stalin on Cooper SquareThe Cooper Union's main building on East Seventh Street is displaying a 1952 Picasso portrait of Stalin, part of an exhibit entitled Stalin by Picasso or Portrait of Woman With Mustache by Lene Berg...

The recent Best of 2008 by the Village Voice included a surprising number of Slavic restaurants! Some are pretty well known, but there’s a surprising number of little-known and out-of-the-way places that are deserving a bit of attention. ...

Last night was the grand opening of the rededicated Bohemian National Hall at 321-325 East 73rd Street in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan, historically a major Czech and Slovak area.The building was built between 1895 and 1897 by architect William C...

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, but we’re hard at work preping walking tours of Greenpoint, Brighton Beach and Bed-Stuy (with Astoria in the pipeline). They’ll be up ASAP. Me...

Greenpoint is the preeminent Polish enclave in New York – and one of the largest outside of Poland itself. ...