Question

True or false. by the 1900's new york city's second avenue was known as the "the broadway harlem" because so many african american theatres were located there.

Answer 1

The answer is false. During the first part of the 20th century, Downtown Second Avenue in the Lower East Side was the home to many Yiddish theatre productions (comprises of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish), and Second Avenue came to be known as the "Yiddish Theater District", "Yiddish Broadway", or the "Jewish Rialto". Even though the theaters are gone, many traces of Jewish immigrant culture remain, such as kosher, delicatessens, and bakeries, and the famous Second Avenue Deli (which was closed in 2006 but later reopened on East 33rd Street and Third Avenue).