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Lower East Side Map
Lower East Side
Lower East Side is know as "still dangerous area in Manhattan", but it has been improved and the historic streets are well decorated and changed into boutiques, restaurants, and lounges. It has been the landmark of Jewish neighborhood. Its center is Orchard Street where a lot of trendy boutiques, French cafes, restaurants are standing along. Today, the area is know as the place for Designers, writers, artists and musicians.
Lower East Side Shopping Map
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Sightseeing Spot
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
The museum reproducing the common apartment in which the immigrations of 19th and 20th century have lived. Difficulties of immigrations of those days hear from the inferior equipment. The tenement building is the heart of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum which promotes tolerance and historical perspective at this gateway to America. The museum and tenement are open for public tours. The museum's exhibits include restored apartments that depict the lives of newly arrived immigrants during various time periods in American history. The museum also has an extensive collection of historical archives and provides a variety of educational programs. (quoted from Wikipedia)
URL : http://www.tenement.org/
Address : 97 Orchard St
Subway : F Line Delancey St, J/M/Z Line Essex St
Admission : $7.5(Guide Tour Only)
Open : 10:00am and 11:30am
Orchard Street
Orchard Street is often considered the center of the Lower East Side and is lined end to end almost entirely with low-rise tenement building with the iconic brick face and fire escapes. A Jewish enclave that was home to first generation immigrants in the late 19th Century and the early 20th Century. The street is known for its discount shopping. There are several lingerie shops and Orthodox Jewish-owned men's suit stores below Delancey Street, while discount clothing and luggage stores dominate the block between Delancey and Rivington Streets. Every Sunday, Orchard Street from Delancey to East Houston Street closes to vehicular traffic turning the street into a pedestrian mall with stores setting up tables and racks advertising their wares to passerbyers. (quoted from Wikipedia)
URL : http://www.orchardstreet.com/
Address : between Houston and Delancy Sts
Subway : F/V Line Lower East Side-2nd Ave
First Roumanian-American Congregation
This 2,000-seat sanctuary was originally built around 1857 as the German Evangelical Church. Designed to convert Jews, it was bought in 1864 by Shaaray Hashomayim, New York's oldest Orthodox German-Jewish congregation. It reverted to a church in 1890, when a Methodist mission society moved the Allen Street Memorial Church here. Finally the current congregation bought it in 1902. Recognized as a center for cantorial music, the synagogue was known as "the Cantorfs Carnegie Hall." It's been a synagogue ever since, though no longer primarily Romanian. Led by Rabbi Jacob Spiegel and offering daily services, the present congregation draws its members from the local Jewish community of residents and merchants. (This church corrupted in 2006)
URL : N/A
Address: 89 Rivington St
Subway : F Line Delancy St, J/M/Z Line Essex St
Eldridge St reet Synagogue
On December 2, 2007, after 20 years of renovation work that cost US$20 million[4], and that was overseen by the non-profit Museum at Eldridge Street and Walter Sedovic Architects the synagogue reopened to the public. It continues to serve as an Orthodox Jewish synagogue, with regular weekly services on the Sabbath and Holidays, and is also the Museum at Eldridge Street offering informative tours that relate to American Jewish history, the history of the Lower East Side and immigration.
URL : http://www.eldridgestreet.org/
Address: 12 Eldridge St (bet Canal & Division Sts)
Subway : F Line East Broadway
Sara D Roosevelt Park
Sara D. Roosevelt park is lacated on E Houston St to Canal St with 7.85 acres width. The name of the park is definitely from "Sara Delano Roosevelt (1854-1941)", mother of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) who is well known as the President to deal with economic damage after the black Tuesday with "New Deal".
URL : http://www.nycgovparks.org/.../park_info.php?propID=M105
Address : bet Houston and Canal Sts, Chrystie and Forsyrh Sts
Subway : B/D Line Grant St, J/M/Z Line Bowery
East River Park
East River Park, part of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, is a public park located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The park stretches along the East River from Montgomery Street up to 12th Street. The southern entrance boasts good views of the Manhattan Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge. The amphitheater, built in 1941 just south of Grand Street, has been reconstructed and is often used for public performances. The park includes football, baseball and soccer fields, tennis, basketball and handball courts, a running track and bike paths including the East River Greenway. Fishing is another popular activity. The park is bisected by the Williamsburg Bridge.
URL : http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/eastriverpark
Address : along East River
Subway : F/V Line 2nd Ave-Lower East Side
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