The Bowne Street entrance of the Temple of Ganesh in Flushing. Source: Garrett Ziegler.
Across the street from a row of residential houses in Flushing, Queens, there’s a large and seemingly out-of-place building with entrances so intricately carved they look like they belong attached to an Indian temple. This building is the worship center Ganesha Temple, and is home to the Hindu Temple Society of America. As one of the oldest and largest immigrant-founded Hindu temples in the Untied States, it attracts hundreds of worshippers each week. (more…)
Men at an all-you-can-eat meat and beer event called the Beefsteak in the late 1800s. Courtesy of 
