PHOTO: Crews today began demolishing the historic Lakewood Cheder building on Madison Avenue.
The building, constructed in the early 1900’s, was home to the original Lakewood Cheder for decades, growing by leaps and bounds until they needed to branch out to other buildings around town.
The Cheder became the largest Frum elementary school in Yeshivah with thousands of students, and recently moved into the 100-classroom campus on Vassar Avenue.
Plans for a new building at the Madison Avenue location were not yet announced.
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Irvington hotel back in the 60’s & 70’s I remember. owners name was Metilda I believe. was always in bankruptcy. always packed around the high holidays with locals & out of owners had rooms. across the street was at least 2 buildings with more rooms. called the annex I believe
If you are calling it the historic Cheder building , the real historic Cheder building was the Weitman farm and then the legion building. Also this building being torn down now is the historic Brunswick Hotel where many celebrities stayed in the 40’s and 50’s. The roof of the Irv had a miniature golf course on it A lot of history in that building. R’ Dovid Sebbag deserves a lot of credit for turning it into such a Makom Torah. Those walls are “EINGEZAPT WITH TORAH”.
Was it really necessary to take it down on Sunday?
this was always the Irvington, Brunswick was on the other side of Madison Avenue. demolished in the seventies and replaced with apartments.
It is the Altater farm. Mr. Whiteman ZT”L was a son in law of the Haliger Mr. and Mrs. Alstaer ZT”L
The New Irvington Hotel was constructed in the 1930’s. The Brunswick and Grossman Hotels were located on Ninth Street west of Madison Ave.
What about the Malibu hotel where the gravel lot on Madison & 11th that was owned by the Weinstein family of “Ukes” fame?
who remembers the Irvingtons mosaic that for its time in the 60’s was considered very edgy?
Malibu was owned by R’ Yekusiel Weinstein and R’ Yehuda Shain. I had my first job there as a newlywed. About a year later it burned down, the way all the old Lakewood hotels did.
Hey I went to the cheder in primary in the historic legion building
Then moved to the Irvington building with Ted fixing the holes in the walls all day. We used to say the walls were made out of tissue paper, 30 years ago
This isn’t historic for being the cheder its historic fir being the irv guy on hotel hence the name “irv” They probably wanted to knock it down before they decide to make it a landmark. That building was falling down 30 years ago the lol Torah of the children must’ve been holding it up, Mamish a nes. As soon as they moved out the place stated crumbling
What r they going to put up on that site?
Laurel in the Pines was grandest hotel of them all. first hotel built by the Tish family. burnt in the 70’s.
Fairmont Hotel 5th st. between 9 and Clifton. $500,000 stolen from the safe. equals to millions today. big story in the early 70&s. some one on the inside was in on it. the owner must not have believed in banks.
My father worked at the Fairmont,Bloomingrantz and the Stanley during the grand Lakewood Hotel days. His name was Harry Kane
The Laurel in the Pines hotel was built in the early 1890’s. The Tish family purchased the hotel many years later. The last section of hotel was destroyed by fire in the spring of 1967.
The New Irvington mosaic was edgy even for the 70’s let alone the 60s. Directly across on the nw corner was a hotel which became a Holiday Inn or Howard Johnson and on the sw corner of Ninth and Madison was Hotel Lieberman which eventually became Fox Manor eventually Solomon Suites and now Madison BM
Unfortunately, there is not much left “Historic” in this town ..if it’s not build on or being torn down it will be to make way for a parking lot or another housing complex or an apartment building, it will be shortly. There is nothing Historic left here, so even though Lakewood was once a “resort town” I feel now with the influx of residents coming in there will be nothing left that is fm the original town. Most of the hotels are gone, every where you look the trees are being torn down to make way for MORE houses. When will it end. I grew up here from a young boy and now I don’t even consider this my home anymore, just a place where I lived, for the majority of my life..it is sad really.
I hope that someday someone will realize what a mess this town has become and there is nothing more to do with it.
My father was a singer at the Fairmont,Stnaley and Bloomingkrantz
I lived there in winter times.
Went back a few years ago- and was stunned and saddened by the sight and feel of it.