Lower East Side facts for kids
The Lower East Side is a neighborhood in southeastern part of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
The neighborhood is roughly made up of Allen Street, East Houston Street, Essex Street, Canal Street, Eldridge Street, East Broadway, and Grand Street. It is considered to be an immigrant, working class area, but some parts of the neighborhood have been bought, repaired, destroyed, and renovated in recent years. Because of this, The National Trust for Historic Preservation put Lower East Side Manhattan on their list of America's Most Endangered Places At one time, much of the Lower East Side was tenements or slums, but many of these have been torn down or replaced by housing projects.
During the late 19th and early 20th century, almost a million people lived on the Lower East Side, making it one of the most densely populated places on the planet. In the early to mid-19th century, many of the people were from Ireland and Germany. In the late 19th and early 20th century, many of the people there were from Eastern Europe, including many Jews. Today, many of the immigrants in the Lower East Side are from the Dominican Republic and China.
Images for kids
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Tenement buildings on the Lower East Side
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Corlears Hook (red arrow) is "Crown Point" in this British map of 1776; "Delaney's [sic] New Square" (blue square northwest of Corlears Hook) was never built
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Lower East Side in the early 1900s
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"Cliff Dwellers" by Bellows, depicting the Lower East Side as it was in the early 20th century
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Katz's Deli, a symbol of the neighborhood's Jewish cultural history
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Meseritz Synagogue
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Little Fuzhou, in Chinatown, the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, is located on the Lower East Side.
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Line of patrons at the Clinton St. Baking Company & Restaurant in 2010
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New York Public Library, Seward Park branch
See also
In Spanish: Lower East Side para niños
