Reports from Knish Alley

The  first Knish Alley Revival is entering the annals of history. Click on this image for more photos.

Sunday's processional on Second Avenue included a knish virgin-turned-convert (in tie). Photo by Cheryl Daitch.

From InTheMoment, Moment Magazine’s blog, right above Sarah Silverman:

It’s cheese! It’s mustard! It’s…a knish?

If you happened to be walking down Second Avenue in New York’s East Village last Sunday afternoon, you might have seen an unexpected sight:  a small and solemn processional of people dressed in yellow.  This was no McDonald’s protest or cheese parade.  Instead, it was a celebration and memorialization of an oft-forgotten history.

From a student in Parsons’ MFA Design & Technology Program, Major Studio 1: Interface 2010 class:

We met, the “KNISH WOMAN!!!!”. In my best attempt, I tried to be as involved as possible, conversing with them about the KNISH REVIVAL! We spoke with them for what felt like a half hour; Confluxing it up. They told us about how they cooked knish earlier for the people, and even talked to us about the Yiddish Walk of Fame, as well as the Village of East City Cinemas, it was an amazing time. At the end, we walked over to the Yiddish Walk of Fame to gaze at amazing stars such as “Fyvush Finkel” (true story) who are forever immortalized on the Yiddish Walk of Fame, located in front of Chase Manhattan Bank.

And my own recap on the Lo-Down blog:

They came from the Bronx. They came from Boston, They came from Newfoundland and yes, they came from the Lower East Side. They came to join in the knish processional and some of them were people I had never seen before.