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Lower East Side

The Lower East Side of is a mix of old and new, bohemian and upscale: you can find trendy bars and music venues, a venerable old no-nonsense place that just might serve up the best pastrami sandwich in the world, and great bialys.
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  • Type: Neighborhood with 73,000 residents
  • Description: neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City, United States
  • Also known as: “LES”, “Loisaida”, “Lower East Side, Manhattan”, and “Lower East Side, New York City”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Brooklyn Bridge and New Museum.

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The is a cable-stayed suspension bridge in , spanning the between the boroughs of and . Opened on May 24, 1883, the was the first fixed crossing of the East River.

Museum
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The of Contemporary Art is a at 235 Bowery, on the Lower East Side of in New York City. It was founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker.

Museum
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The is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue at 12–16 Eldridge Street in the and Lower East Side neighborhoods of in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chinatown and SoHo.

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's famous is a lively neighborhood, full of good values in restaurants and food shopping. Also on sale are cheap knockoffs of designer labels made in , and all sorts of trinkets and toys.

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, short for "South of Houston Street" and a reference to its supposed similarities to the , is a diverse and increasingly upscale neighborhood of .

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The , east of the on , was traditionally considered part of the Lower East Side, and constitutes the portion north of Houston St, south of 14th St, and east of Broadway.

Lower East Side

Latitude
40.71594° or 40° 42′ 57″ north
Longitude
-73.98681° or 73° 59′ 13″ west
Population
73,000
Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)
Open location code
87G8P287+97
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158853595
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Geo­Names ID
5125409
Wiki­data ID
Q1511813
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Lower East Side” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الجانب الشرقي الأدنى لمانهاتن”
  • Armenian: “Ստորին Իսթ Սայդ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aşağı İst-Sayd”
  • Basque: “Lower East Side”
  • Catalan: “Lower East Side”
  • Chinese: “下东城”
  • Chinese: “下東城”
  • Czech: “Lower East Side”
  • Danish: “Lower East Side”
  • Dutch: “Lower East Side”
  • Esperanto: “Lower East Side”
  • Esperanto: “Malsupra Orienta Flanko”
  • Estonian: “Lower East Side”
  • Finnish: “Lower East Side”
  • French: “Lower East Side de Manhattan”
  • French: “Lower East Side”
  • Galician: “Lower East Side”
  • Georgian: “ქვემო ისტ-საიდი”
  • German: “Lower East Side”
  • Greek: “Λόουερ Ηστ Σάιντ”
  • Hebrew: “לואר איסט סייד”
  • Icelandic: “Lower East Side”
  • Indonesian: “Lower East Side”
  • Italian: “Lower East Side”
  • Japanese: “ローワー・イースト・サイド”
  • Japanese: “ロウアー・イースト・サイド”
  • Korean: “로어이스트사이드”
  • Kurdish: “Lower East Side”
  • Latin: “Lower East Side”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lower East Side”
  • Norwegian: “Lower East Side”
  • Persian: “لوئر ایست ساید”
  • Persian: “لوور ایست ساید”
  • Polish: “Lower East Side”
  • Portuguese: “Lower East Side”
  • Russian: “Лауэр-Ист-Сайд”
  • Russian: “Нижний Ист-Сайд”
  • Serbian: “Lover ist sajd”
  • Serbian: “Ловер ист сајд”
  • Slovak: “Lower East Side”
  • Slovenian: “Lower East Side”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لوور ایست سید”
  • Spanish: “Loisaida”
  • Spanish: “Lower East Side (Manhattan)”
  • Spanish: “Lower East Side”
  • Swedish: “Lower East Side”
  • Turkish: “Lower East Side”
  • Ukrainian: “Нижній Іст-Сайд”
  • Welsh: “Lower East Side”
  • Yiddish: “לאוער איסט סייד”

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