![]() It has ruined the view of the Manhattan Bridge from DUMBO in Brooklyn. Theresa Church, and looming up behind it is the supertall One Manhattan Square that replaced the Pathmark supermarket at South and Pike Streets. Directly ahead, at Rutgers and Henry, is the Roman Catholic St. GOOGLE MAP: STREETS OF THE LOWER EAST SIDEĮmerging from the F train at East Broadway you are at the confluence of East Broadway, Rutgers, Canal and Essex Streets, at Straus Square, which I deal with on this FNY page. I should walk Rivington, Stanton and Broome again, and I have yet to walk Hester, Allen, Eldridge and Forsyth perhaps that will come during the summer. I obtained over 300 photos, many of which will be used in this multipart series, which may necessitate a rare midweek feature page. In June 2018, I walked the north-south streets of the Lower East Side from Orchard east to Pitt between Houston and East Broadway/Grand/Delancey and noticing what I saw. Though much of the LES looks as it did over a century ago, developments like Essex Crossing will massively change its “look and feel.” Luxury condos have begun to spring up, despite community protest. Today, the Lower East Side is still attracting immigrants from the world over, and theatres, rock clubs and restaurants have added to the Orchard Street crowds in search of bargains. Reform came only slowly, with the construction of major housing projects in the mid-20 th Century. Crowding, freezing cold in winter, and stifling heat in summer were the norm. The tenement, as in other parts of New York City, was the dominant form of housing with hundreds of people occupying rooms in the same building. New populations of Latinos and Chinese have arrived in subsequent decades. In subsequent decades came immigrants: first the Irish, escaping the potato famine of the 1840s and British repression in the 1860s, then the Germans in such numbers that the area became known as Kleindeutschland (“little Germany”), and later Eastern Europeans, many of them Jewish, escaping persecution in their homelands. George Washington had a mansion at #3 Cherry Street, in a site now serving as an anchorage for the Brooklyn Bridge. ![]() In the 17th and early 18th centuries, it was primarily countryside and farmland it attracted ship captains and wealthy landowners such as Rutgers and Delancey, whose names still are prominent on local street signs. The Lower East Side of Manhattan, roughly defined by East Houston Street on the north, the East River on the east and south, and by the Manhattan Bridge and the Bowery on the west, is known in story and song as a teeming, bustling magnet for immigrants in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
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