17 April 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Living, Working, Building, Museums, Exhibitions, New York City
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The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, located at 97 and 103
Orchard Street in the
Lower East Side neighborhood of
Manhattan,
New York City, is a
National Historic Site. The museum’s two historical
tenement buildings were home to an estimated 15,000 people, from over 20 nations, between 1863 and 2011. The museum, which includes a visitors’ center, promotes tolerance and historical perspective on the
immigrant experience.
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30 August 2017 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, New York City
Reading Time: 18 minutes
Katz’s Delicatessen © Alex Lozupone/cc-by-sa-4.0
The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a neighborhood in the southeastern part of the
New York City borough of
Manhattan, roughly located between the
Bowery and the
East River, and
Canal Street and
Houston Street. Traditionally an immigrant, working-class neighborhood, it began rapid
gentrification in the mid-2000s, prompting
The National Trust for Historic Preservation to place the neighborhood on their list of
America’s Most Endangered Places in 2008. The neighborhood is bordered in the south and west by Chinatown – which extends north to roughly Grand Street, in the west by Nolita and in the north by the East Village. Historically, the “Lower East Side” referred to the area alongside the East River from about the
Manhattan Bridge and
Canal Street up to
14th Street, and roughly bounded on the west by
Broadway. It included areas known today as
East Village,
Alphabet City,
Chinatown,
Bowery,
Little Italy, and
Nolita. Parts of the East Village are still known as
Loisaida, a Latino pronunciation of “Lower East Side.”
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