English and Spanish servicesincredible diversity of national origins. all here in one small block. But for how much longer? All over the lower East Side we read in the signs the fading of the days of strong ethnic enclave. Where loo signs boasted in Polish or Russian. only a few remain. antique and faintly apologetic in the modern city. Along the great thoroughfare of East Broadway. the Yiddish language once flowered forth in a half dozen newspapers tying together Jewish immigrants from many countries. Today the circulation of the Yiddish papers has dwindled to a few thousand readers. most of them old. Change and more change.
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