"The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out because it was properly executed." ~Honorรฉ de Balzac
New York City, 1911. Syrian immigrant children playing in the lower Manhattan neighborhood known as "Little Syria" (also called the Syrian Quarter, it was a vibrant enclave along Washington Street near the Battery where thousands of Syrians,ย Armenians, Greeks, and others from Middle Eastern and Mediterranean communities lived).