Editing New York City (section)

== Chabad History of the City ==

==== Until 5690 (1930) ====
Already during the period of the Rebbe Maharash we find Chabad chassidim residing in the city, and synagogues following the Arizal and Alter Rebbe's nusach were abundant. Most chassidim traveled due to the financial difficulties that existed in Russia at that time.

During the period of the Frierdiker Rebbe, they united under the name "Agudas Chassidei Chabad," whose center was in New York, which managed and coordinated Chabad affairs in the United States.

Among the prominent chassidim from that period, we can mention: Rabbi Eliyahu Yachil Simpson, Rabbi Yisroel Jacobson, and many others.

==== 5690 (1930) - The Frierdiker Rebbe Visits New York ====
On Wednesday, 12 Elul 5689 (1929), the Frierdiker Rebbe arrived for a visit to the United States. The Frierdiker Rebbe's ship docked in New York, where he stayed at the beginning of his visit, and from there he also traveled back on 21 Tammuz 5690 (1930).

==== 5700 (1940) - The Center of Chabad Chassidus Moves to New York ====
On 9 Adar Sheni 5700 (1940), the Frierdiker Rebbe arrived in America after Europe was conquered by the Nazis. Initially, the Frierdiker Rebbe stayed at the Greystone Hotel, 212 West 91st Street in Manhattan. After that, he established the first Tomchei Tmimim Yeshiva in America, which was housed in the Oneg Shabbat synagogue.

Later, he moved to live in his home at 770.

On 28 Sivan 5701 (1941), the Rebbe arrived in America, and since then the work of spreading the wellsprings of Chassidus in America in general, and in New York in particular, was strengthened.