How did people meet and mingle 100 years ago? Did they confess their love in letters? Go to a matchmaker? Meet at work on a factory floor? As immigrants wrestled with new American ways and their old traditions, the Lower East Side was home to family-arranged marriages and young people mixing freely at dance halls and making their matches.

Join the Museum at Eldridge Street’s Scott Brevda for a look at sites on the Lower East Side where love once blossomed! This program was made possible through the support of the Laura B. Vogler Foundation.

Scott is the Senior Manager for Education and Accessibility at the Museum at Eldridge Street. As a historian, museum educator & lifelong New Yorker, he loves to bring the history of his native city to life. Currently, Scott plans & leads the intensive CASA program, creates new educational content & public programs, and develops new access programs to ensure that the Museum engages all audiences.