The Dubersteins landed in NYC in May 1900. Less than a month later their presence was being recorded as part of the 12th decennial census of the United States. When the census takers came around, the 10 of them were living on the Lower East Side, at 203 Monroe St. (The address no longer exists: Monroe St. stops around 176 before running into one of New York's less attractive mid-century public projects just north of the Manhattan Bridge.)
Note that the records do not exactly jive; the census form gives Morris' date of immigration as 1899, not 1900 as implied by the ship's manifest. (But as we will see when we get to 1910, this may have been a one-time mistake.)
Moshe had by then become Morris; Mere (from the ship's manifest) had become Merry, and the children all had new American names. Unsurprisingly as well, they started started to work: Morris as a tailor, Merry as a "domestic" (does this mean she was employed as a housecleaner, or was she simply working at home?) Her youngest, Gerald, was only 4 months, but the older kids went up to 16 -- indeed, Annie, the eldest, was employed as a dressmaker already.
Note that the records do not exactly jive; the census form gives Morris' date of immigration as 1899, not 1900 as implied by the ship's manifest. (But as we will see when we get to 1910, this may have been a one-time mistake.)
Moshe had by then become Morris; Mere (from the ship's manifest) had become Merry, and the children all had new American names. Unsurprisingly as well, they started started to work: Morris as a tailor, Merry as a "domestic" (does this mean she was employed as a housecleaner, or was she simply working at home?) Her youngest, Gerald, was only 4 months, but the older kids went up to 16 -- indeed, Annie, the eldest, was employed as a dressmaker already.
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