Corrections.
Thanks to my readers for catching some of these errors; others were revealed through further research.
on Page 134:
“By the late nineteenth century, 70-90 percent of the urban population [of Europe] was infected with tuberculosis bacillus. Eighty percent of those who were infected died.
Should read:
Eighty percent of those who developed active tuberculous died of it.”
on Page 175 - Sphrintze should be Shprintze
0n page 196 and all following mentions
Mandelkorn should read Mandelkern.
on page 208 - Corrections to Trotsky section.
In the winter of 1917, Leon Trotsky spent ten weeks in New York City. Upon his return to Europe and rise to world fame as a key participant in the Bolshevik revolution, countless spurious legends surrounding his time in the city were promulgated by the popular press and individuals with strong feelings about the revolution. An impossible number of Lower East Side restaurateurs claimed him as a regular customer, he was rumored to have worked as a movie extra and as a restaurant dishwasher. In some reports, he was transformed into a New York-born Jew who made it good in Russia. One often heard legend, passed down as family lore, centered around his ideological objection to tipping restaurant waiters and their retaliation through poor service, insults and the spilling hot soup. The unvarying repetition of details suggests a yet-to-be-discovered common source. This legend eventually found print form as a humorous piece of historical fiction with anti-Communist overtones that appeared in a 1965 issue of Esquire magazine. This clearly fictitious account somehow found its way into recent academic studies of Trotsky and his time in New York City. In this story, he had vegetarian leanings and took most of his meals in dairy restaurants — his favorite being the Triangle Dairy Restaurant (see page 411) on Wilkins Avenue in the East Bronx near his family’s rented apartment. There’s no evidence of Trotsky having vegetarian leanings. During his last years in Mexico, he kept rabbits and chickens as pets that eventually found their way to a plate on his dining room table. Had Trotsky spent as much time in restaurants, incidentally stiffing waiters, as these “eyewitnesses” accounts suggest, he would have had little time for the research and journalism that he was actually engaged in during his time in New York City.
on page 232 Giffou should read Griffou.
on Page 264 - "untrimmed breads" should be "untrimmed beards"
page 361 Vegetarian and Dairy Restaurant should read: Original Stark’s Vegetarian and Dairy Restaurant at 436 Broome Street, near Broadway.
drawing on page 399 represents Abe Bluth, not Paul.
on page 407 Triangle Dairy Restaurant should read:
Triangle Dairy Restaurant, Wilkins Avenue, Bronx. According to a spurious legend, this was Leon Trotsky’s favorite restaurant during his 1917 visit to New York City. The first evidence of this restaurants dates to 1925 and it’s located at 1379 Intervale Ave. (see page 208.)
on page 465 (top) missing address. Brighton Dairy Restaurant, 410 Brighton Beach Ave. (incorporated 1964-1967).
Thanks to my readers for catching some of these errors; others were revealed through further research.
on Page 134:
“By the late nineteenth century, 70-90 percent of the urban population [of Europe] was infected with tuberculosis bacillus. Eighty percent of those who were infected died.
Should read:
Eighty percent of those who developed active tuberculous died of it.”
on Page 175 - Sphrintze should be Shprintze
0n page 196 and all following mentions
Mandelkorn should read Mandelkern.
on page 208 - Corrections to Trotsky section.
In the winter of 1917, Leon Trotsky spent ten weeks in New York City. Upon his return to Europe and rise to world fame as a key participant in the Bolshevik revolution, countless spurious legends surrounding his time in the city were promulgated by the popular press and individuals with strong feelings about the revolution. An impossible number of Lower East Side restaurateurs claimed him as a regular customer, he was rumored to have worked as a movie extra and as a restaurant dishwasher. In some reports, he was transformed into a New York-born Jew who made it good in Russia. One often heard legend, passed down as family lore, centered around his ideological objection to tipping restaurant waiters and their retaliation through poor service, insults and the spilling hot soup. The unvarying repetition of details suggests a yet-to-be-discovered common source. This legend eventually found print form as a humorous piece of historical fiction with anti-Communist overtones that appeared in a 1965 issue of Esquire magazine. This clearly fictitious account somehow found its way into recent academic studies of Trotsky and his time in New York City. In this story, he had vegetarian leanings and took most of his meals in dairy restaurants — his favorite being the Triangle Dairy Restaurant (see page 411) on Wilkins Avenue in the East Bronx near his family’s rented apartment. There’s no evidence of Trotsky having vegetarian leanings. During his last years in Mexico, he kept rabbits and chickens as pets that eventually found their way to a plate on his dining room table. Had Trotsky spent as much time in restaurants, incidentally stiffing waiters, as these “eyewitnesses” accounts suggest, he would have had little time for the research and journalism that he was actually engaged in during his time in New York City.
on page 232 Giffou should read Griffou.
on Page 264 - "untrimmed breads" should be "untrimmed beards"
page 361 Vegetarian and Dairy Restaurant should read: Original Stark’s Vegetarian and Dairy Restaurant at 436 Broome Street, near Broadway.
drawing on page 399 represents Abe Bluth, not Paul.
on page 407 Triangle Dairy Restaurant should read:
Triangle Dairy Restaurant, Wilkins Avenue, Bronx. According to a spurious legend, this was Leon Trotsky’s favorite restaurant during his 1917 visit to New York City. The first evidence of this restaurants dates to 1925 and it’s located at 1379 Intervale Ave. (see page 208.)
on page 465 (top) missing address. Brighton Dairy Restaurant, 410 Brighton Beach Ave. (incorporated 1964-1967).
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