Carl Antoun

New Yorkers trying to save lower Manhattan’s history as Little Syria

Global Politics

Beneath what is now the Battery Tunnel and the site of the World Trade Center is the remains of Little Syria, the first stop for Arab American immigrants who came to the United State near the turn of the 20th Century. Now, a small group is trying to save a six-story building that marks the history.

The World

Saving New York’s ‘Little Syria’

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