Roof Collapses At Historic Lower East Side Synagogue
New York 1 News reports:
The fate of a 150-year-old Lower East Side synagogue hangs in the balance this morning after its roof collapsed yesterday afternoon.
It’s not yet known if the First Roumanian-American Congregation [Congregation Shaarai Shomoyim], once called the Cantors’ Carnegie Hall, can be salvaged. No one was in the Synagogue at the time of the collapse.