Ohel Chabad-Lubavitch visitors center

226-20 Francis Lewis Boulevard | Cambria Heights | built 1945

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

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1995
Lubavitcher Hasidim buy a Francis Lewis Boulevard house and open it as a 24-hour visitors center for the Ohel
The year after Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was buried at the Ohel in Montefiore Cemetery, beside the grave of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, Lubavitcher Hasidim purchased one of the small brick houses that back onto the cemetery and made it a visitors center open around the clock. Inside are a video room, a library, a small synagogue and a quiet room where pilgrims write out the prayers they will recite at the graves. Visitors reach the tomb by leaving through the house's back door and following a path.
“In 1995, Lubavitcher Hasidim bought one of these houses and turned it into a 24-hour visitors center.”
Source: Wikipedia

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