The Gagement Party

Zaren: Bertha and Grunne met at a party thrown by Rabbi Messing on March 18, 1888. Zaren: The couple got engaged the next day in front of dozens of guests who were thrilled to be able to meet this fascinating woman with all this money. She says that 135 years later O'Farrell Street would be almost smack dab in the tenderline neighborhood where drug use and homelessness rife.