The Shalom Aleichem Schul and Cultural Center on Bainbridge Avenue at East 208th Street, founded in 1929, perhaps the last relic of the days when the neighborhood was mainly Jewish and Italian: a center for Yiddish theater and Klezmer concerts: "Yarmulkes are a rare sight along Norwood's Bainbridge Avenue, a busy thoroughfare at the heart of the Bronx neighborhood once dominated by Jews and Italians. Today, the street is lined with shops and stores owned by a new, diverse group of immigrants. Residents can get their teeth cleaned by a Dominican dentist, purchase pastries from a Montenegrin bakery or pick up groceries at a Bangladeshi market. One building, however, still displays Yiddish's serifed, curling script on its marble facade. And inside, members of the Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center can be found speaking the language with the same fluency and passion that their ancestors did, centuries ago..." ( read more here).