Ira Gershwin Birthplace - New York City

Ira Gershwin's birthplace is on Eldridge Street in New York City.  The future Pulitzer Prize winning lyricist was born Israel Gershowitz in this lower East Side tenement building on December 6, 1896. He was the oldest of four children born to Russian Jewish immigrants Morris and Rose Gershovitz. Just as his father moved from job to job, Ira and the family moved from house to house in the lower East Side of New York City and there are several homes still extant throughout Manhattan that the Gershwins occupied.  Ira would eventually team up with his younger brotehr George to form one of music's most famous writing teams.  A plaque sits on the front of the building acknowledging Gershwin's birth here.

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