page_title: Isidor Straus
section_title: Memorials
hierarchical_section_title: Isidor Straus / Memorials
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking north across 3d Avenue at Straus PS 198 on a mostly sunny midday.
context_page_description: Isidor Straus was a Bavarian-born American Jewish businessman, politician and co-owner of Macy's department store with his brother Nathan. He also served for just over a year as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He died with his wife, Ida, in the sinking of the passenger ship RMS Titanic.
context_section_description: In addition to the cenotaph at Woodlawn Cemetery, there are three other memorials to Isidor and Ida Straus in their adopted home of New York City:
  A memorial plaque can be seen on the main floor of Macy's Department Store in Manhattan.
  The Isidor and Ida Straus Memorial is located in Straus Park, at the intersection of Broadway and West End Avenue at 106th Street (Duke Ellington Boulevard) in Manhattan. The park is one block from where they resided at 105th Street and West End Avenue (now the site of the Cleburne Building). An inscription reads, "Lovely and pleasant they were in their lives, and in death they were not divided." (2 Samuel 1:23)
  New York City Public School P.S. 198, built in Manhattan in 1959, is named in memory of Isidor and Ida Straus.  The building, at Third Avenue between East 95th and 96th Streets, shares space with another school, P.S. 77.
  Straus Hall, one of Harvard's freshman residence halls in Harvard Yard, was given in honor of the Strauses by their three sons.
caption: PS 198, on Third Avenue between East 95th and 96th Streets
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