Congregation Baith Israel Anshei Emes
Congregation Baith Israel Anshei Emes, more commonly known as the Kane Street Synagogue, is an egalitarian Conservative synagogue at 236 Kane Street in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, New York, United States. It is the oldest continuously operating synagogue in Brooklyn.
Synagogue sanctuary
Marcus Friedlander in 1891
Kane Street synagogue exterior.
Synagogue courtyard.
Cobble Hill is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. A small neighborhood comprising 40 blocks, Cobble Hill sits adjacent to Brooklyn Heights to the north, Boerum Hill to the east, Carroll Gardens to the south, and the Columbia Street Waterfront District to the west. It is bounded by Atlantic Avenue (north), Court Street (east), Degraw Street (south) and the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (west). Other sources add to the neighborhood a rectangle bounded by Wyckoff Street on the north, Hoyt Street on the east, Degraw Street on the south, and Court Street on the west.
The intersection of Henry and Congress streets (2013)
Rowhouses on Kane Street between Clinton Street and Tompkins Place
"Workingman's Cottages" built by philanthropist Alfred Tredway White as low-cost housing in 1876 (shown here in 2009)
Cobble Hill Park with snow on the ground