Millinery Center Synagogue

1025 Avenue of the Americas | Garment District | built 1920

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1935
Millinery workers organize a congregation in a Garment District loft
Milliners in the Garment District, then home to nearly 600 hat manufacturers employing about 15,000 workers, organized the Millinery Center Synagogue to serve observant Jewish workers in the trade. For its first decade the congregation worshipped in a loft on the second floor of a nearby building before raising money for a synagogue of its own.
Source: Internet Archive
1948
September 12
The congregation dedicates a limestone synagogue designed by H. I. Feldman
Architect Hyman Isaac Feldman designed the narrow, air-conditioned limestone building, just 19 feet wide, which cost $150,000 to build and could seat about 125 worshippers beneath a rooftop magen david. The synagogue was backed by the many millinery trade organizations based in the neighborhood.
Source: Wikipedia
1948
Cantor Joseph Guttman begins nearly four decades leading services
Joseph Guttman, a cantor who had survived a Czechoslovakian concentration camp, took up his post at the new synagogue around the time of its completion and served for almost forty years. He later coached opera singers Richard Tucker and Jan Peerce in the High Holiday liturgy.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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