Lower East Side (English Wikipedia)

Hester Street (1975) – AFI Catalog Spotlight", American Film Institute, May 2, 2022. Accessed November 8, 2022. "It went on to receive a Best Actress Oscar® nomination for Carol Kane, and a WGA Award nomination for Silver's adaptation of the 1896 novella Yekl, a Tale of the New York Ghetto by Abraham Cahan, who founded the premier Yiddish language newspaper in America."
Gringo, American Film Institute. Accessed November 4, 2017. "In the early 1980s, John Spacely is an unemployed heroin addict living on the streets of New York City's Lower East Side, where he is known by the nickname, 'Gringo.'"

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"Manhattan Hospital Listings". New York Hospitals. Retrieved March 20, 2019.

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Deliso, Meredith. "Luis Guzman on growing up in NYC, best Puerto Rican food", AM New York Metro, June 9, 2016. Accessed January 19, 2024. "[Q] What was it like growing up in New York? [A] I lived on the Lower East Side. I grew up on Delancey and Columbia Street.... But back then, when we moved to the Lower East Side, in the late 1960s, early 1970s, the neighborhood looked like a bomb hit it, when the Bowery was full of what we called hobos."

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Staff. "Adrienne Bailon: "I'm Not Where I Thought I Would Be at 30'", BET, July 12, 2013. Accessed September 29, 2016. "I achieved so much more than I ever could have expected being a Latina from the projects of the Lower East Side."

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Bialystoker Synagogue

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Cutler, Aaron. "The Lower East Side Is a Foreign Country: Joan Micklin Silver on Hester Street", Brooklyn Magazine, September 28, 2016. Accessed November 30, 2017. "Hester Street, Joan Micklin Silver's independently financed 1975 debut feature, will screen at Film Forum Tuesday, October 4 on an archival 35mm print, with Silver in person alongside star Carol Kane. The film is set in 1896 within a Jewish community on New York's Lower East Side."

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Our History, Bloomingdale's. Accessed September 29, 2016. "A Store Is Born: To think it all started with a 19th-century fad – the hoop skirt. That was the first item that Joseph and Lyman Bloomingdale carried in their Ladies' Notions Shop in New York's Lower East Side."

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Elmaleh, Edmund. The Canary Sang But Couldn't Fly: The Fatal Fall of Abe Reles, the Mobster Who Shattered Murder, Inc.'s Code of Silence, p. 25. Accessed March 16, 2022. "The man whom famed racketbuster Thomas E. Dewey would one day call 'the worst industrial racketeer in America' began life on February 6, 1897, in a Russian-Jewish enclave on the Lower East Side. Lepke's father, Barnett Buchalter, ran a timy hardware store near the family's tenemant flat at 217 Henry Street."
Bakish, David. Jimmy Durante: His Show Business Career, with an Annotated Filmography and Discography, p. 77. McFarland & Company, 1995. ISBN 9780899509686. Accessed September 29, 2016. "(Mulberry Street is on the Lower East Side of New York, where Jimmy Durante grew up with a barber father.)"

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Steinetz, Rebecca. "Reviving the All-of-a-Kind Family books", The Boston Globe, December 13, 2014. Accessed November 30, 2017. "Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertie may not have the name recognition of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, or Laura and Mary, but that could change, now that Lizzie Skurnick Books has reprinted four of the five All-of-a-Kind Family books, originally published between 1951 and 1978. For publisher Skurnick, whose imprint is devoted to reissuing out-of-print classic young-adult literature, reviving Sydney Taylor's saga of five Jewish immigrant sisters growing up on New York's Lower East Side at the beginning of the 20th century was a no-brainer."

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Perler, Elie (July 29, 2014). "Abe's Antiques on Stanton Street is a Set for ABC's 'Forever'". Bowery Boogie. New York City: Bowery Boogie. Archived from the original on August 12, 2016. Retrieved April 30, 2017.

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Barry Gross, "Michael Gold (1893–1967)", The Heath Anthology of American Literature, ed. Paul Lauter, 5th edition. http://college.cengage.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/modern/gold_mi.html

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"NYC-Manhattan Community District 3—Chinatown & Lower East Side PUMA, NY". Retrieved July 17, 2018.

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"Lower East Side neighborhood in New York". Retrieved March 18, 2019.

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"FDNY Firehouse Listing – Location of Firehouses and companies". NYC Open Data; Socrata. New York City Fire Department. September 10, 2018. Retrieved March 14, 2019.

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"A Tale of Two Chinatowns – Gentrification in NYC – Rosenberg 2018". Eportfolios@Macaulay – Your Cabinet of Curiosities. May 10, 2018. Retrieved November 10, 2019.

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Fairs, Marcus (November 7, 2007). "Bernard Tschumi's Blue tower opens". Dezeen. Retrieved April 19, 2022.

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"Lower East Side and Chinatown – DNAinfo.com Crime and Safety Report". www.dnainfo.com. Archived from the original on April 15, 2017. Retrieved October 6, 2016.

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See also Diner, Hasia; Shandler, Jeffrey; Wenger, Beth, eds. (2000), Remembering the Lower East Side. American Jewish reflections, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, ISBN 0-253-33788-7 or Pohl, Jana (2006), "'Only darkness in the Goldeneh Medina?' Die Lower East Side in der US-amerikanischen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur", Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte, 58 (3): 227–242, doi:10.1163/157007306777834546

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Diez, Patty (June 7, 2017). "LES Bars and Nightlife are Ruining the Neighborhood, According to Study". Eater NY. Retrieved September 19, 2025.

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Eldridge Street Synagogue

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Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms (1859): "hooker": 'A resident of the Hook, i.e. a strumpet, a sailor's trull. So called from the number of houses of ill-fame frequented by sailors at the Hook (i.e. Corlears Hook) in the city of New York" (quoted in the Online Etymology Dictionary); thus the usage precedes the Civil War and any supposed connection to Major-General Joseph Hooker.

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Busis, Hillary. "Michael Che: 5 things to know", Entertainment Weekly, April 28, 2014. Accessed September 29, 2016. "He grew up in the projects of New York City's Lower East Side"

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"Chinatown New York City Fact Sheet" (PDF). explorechinatown.com. Retrieved July 20, 2014.

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"Engine Company 15/Ladder Company 18/Battalion 4". FDNYtrucks.com. Retrieved March 14, 2019.
"Engine Company 9/Ladder Company 6". FDNYtrucks.com. Retrieved March 14, 2019.

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"Routes and Schedules: South Brooklyn". NYC Ferry. Retrieved July 14, 2024.

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"Lower East Side / Chinatown – MN 03" (PDF). Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. 2011. Retrieved October 5, 2016.

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About, Henry Street Settlement. Accessed November 30, 2017. "Founded in 1893 by social work and public health pioneer Lillian Wald and based on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Henry Street Settlement delivers a wide range of social service, arts and health care programs to more than 60,000 New Yorkers each year."

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Seaver, Carl. "The Life of 'The Oddfather,' Vincent Gigante", History Defined, January 27, 2023. Accessed January 19, 2024. "Vincent Gigante was born in 1928 in the Lower East Side of New York. His father, Salvatore Gigante, and mother, Yolanda Gigante, were Italian immigrants."

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Newcomb, Steven (September 12, 2018). "A Dutch Massacre of Our Lenape Ancestors on Manhattan". Indian Country Today. Retrieved June 10, 2021.

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"InsideSchools: District 1". InsideSchools. Retrieved June 10, 2019.

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"Actor Ben Gazzara dead at 81", The Florida Times-Union, February 3, 2012. Accessed January 19, 2024. "Born Biagio Anthony Gazzara in New York on Aug. 28, 1930, he grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in a cold-water flat with a bathtub in the kitchen."

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"Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem to Celebrate 114th Anniversary", Jewish Link, February 18, 2021. Accessed January 19, 2024. "Three generations of the Feinstein family have stood at the helm of one of America’s earliest Torah institutions, founded in 1907. Located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and later expanding to Staten Island, Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem (MTJ) stands out as the model of Torah and middot for many of the institutions of Torah learning in America to follow."

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Scutts, Joseph. "Jewish comedian Jackie Mason reflects on his legendary career", The Jerusalem Post, July 26, 2021. Accessed February 10, 2026. "When Jackie was five years old, his family moved to the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, largely so that he and his siblings could pursue a yeshiva education."

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Fishkoff, Sue (May 22, 2009). "The new American Girl doll: She's Jewish, she's poor and her name is Rebecca". Archived from the original on May 31, 2012. Retrieved May 30, 2014.

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Rozen, Leah. "Accessory During the Fact : MOB GIRL: A Woman's Life in the Underworld, By Teresa Carpenter (Simon & Schuster: $21; 274 pp.)", Los Angeles Times, March 15, 1992. Accessed September 29, 2016. "Brickman was born on New York's Lower East Side in 1933."

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"Lower East Side, New York, NY" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved November 22, 2014.

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Fishman, George. "Lotti Golden — The 'Freaked-Out, Drugged-Up Street World of New York’s Lower East Side' Circa 1968, Set to Music", Medium, April 19, 2023. Accessed January 19, 2024. "By the end of high school in 1967, Lotti had sung with bands up and down the East coast, taken up acting and entered the freaked-out, drugged-up street world of New York’s Lower East Side."

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"Subway Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. April 2025. Retrieved April 2, 2025.

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"Manhattan Bus Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 2019. Retrieved December 1, 2020.

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Barrett, Devlin. "Threats to history seen in budget cuts, bulldozers". Yahoo! News. Archived from the original on June 3, 2008. Retrieved March 16, 2010.

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"Bohemia Moves East: Evicted by economics, ex-Villagers are colonizing the Lower East Side". Daily News. January 21, 1962. p. 16. Retrieved November 9, 2025.

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Photograph of American-Jewish Labour Leader Samuel Gompers, National Library of Israel. Accessed January 19, 2024. "In 1863, the Gomper family moved to New York’s Lower East Side in the hope of a better future. Samuel helped his father made cigars in their home."

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"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.

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Sarah Waxman. "The History of New York's Chinatown". Mediabridge Infosystems, Inc. Retrieved July 20, 2014. Manhattan's Chinatown, the largest Chinatown in the United States and the site of the largest concentration of Chinese in the Western Hemisphere, is located on the Lower East Side.

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"New Explorations into Science, Technology and Math High School". New York City Department of Education. December 19, 2018. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
"P.S. 001 Alfred E. Smith". New York City Department of Education. December 19, 2018. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
"P.S. 002 Meyer London". New York City Department of Education. December 19, 2018. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
"P.S. 020 Anna Silver". New York City Department of Education. December 19, 2018. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
"P.S. 042 Benjamin Altman". New York City Department of Education. December 19, 2018. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
"P.S. 110 Florence Nightingale". New York City Department of Education. December 19, 2018. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
"P.S. 134 Henrietta Szold". New York City Department of Education. December 19, 2018. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
"P.S. 142 Amalia Castro". New York City Department of Education. December 19, 2018. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
"P.S. 126 Jacob August Riis". New York City Department of Education. December 19, 2018. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
"P.S. 140 Nathan Straus". New York City Department of Education. December 19, 2018. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
"P.S. 184m Shuang Wen". New York City Department of Education. December 19, 2018. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
"P.S. 188 The Island School". New York City Department of Education. Retrieved July 29, 2023.
"The East Village Community School". New York City Department of Education. Retrieved February 7, 2021.
"Orchard Collegiate Academy". New York City Department of Education. December 19, 2018. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
"School for Global Leaders". New York City Department of Education. December 19, 2018. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
"University Neighborhood Middle School". New York City Department of Education. December 19, 2018. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
"University Neighborhood High School". New York City Department of Education. September 24, 2024. Retrieved September 24, 2024.

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"Lower East Side and Chinatown (Including Chinatown, East Village and Lower East Side)" (PDF). nyc.gov. NYC Health. 2018. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
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"Manhattan Census Tracts 14.02, 36.01, 2.02, 10.01, 12, 30.01, 22.01, 14.01, 10.02, 18". Population FactFinder. 2020.

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"East Village/Lower East Side Historic District" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. October 9, 2012. Retrieved September 28, 2019.

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Van Winkle, Edward; Vinckeboons, Joan; van Rensselaer, Kiliaen. Manhattan, 1624–1639 1916:13; Jacob, whose name was anglicised as "van Curler", leased it to William Hendriesen and Gysbert Cornelisson in September 1640; date given as "prior to 1640": "Corlears Park". Nycgovparks.org. November 17, 2001. Retrieved March 16, 2010.
NYC Department of Parks historical sign: Corlear's Hook Park.
"Sara D. Roosevelt Park : NYC Parks". New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. June 26, 1939. Retrieved June 5, 2019.
"Seward Park : NYC Parks". New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. June 26, 1939. Retrieved June 5, 2019.
"John V. Lindsay East River Park : NYC Parks". New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. June 26, 1939. Retrieved June 5, 2019.

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Blake, Meredith. "Maggie Gyllenhaal blazes a new indie trail – and it leads straight to hubby Peter Sarsgaard and home", New York Daily News, August 15, 2010. Accessed January 19, 2024. "In case there was any question about Gyllenhaal's cool pedigree, she was even born on the lower East Side. Enough said."

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"Best Pancakes – Best of New York 2005". New York Magazine. May 21, 2005. Retrieved May 12, 2011.

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"About the Seward Park Library". The New York Public Library. Retrieved March 14, 2019.
"About the Hamilton Fish Park Library". The New York Public Library. Retrieved March 14, 2019.

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Bryk, William. "There'd Be No Toy Trains Under Your Tree If It Weren't for Joshua Lionel Cowen", New York Press, December 25, 2001. Accessed July 9, 2017. "Joshua Lionel Cowen was born on Henry St. in Manhattan's Lower East Side on Aug. 25, 1877."

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Salkin, Allen (June 3, 2007). "Lower East Side Is Under a Groove". The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
Virshup, Amy. "New York Nabes". The New York Times. Retrieved January 13, 2007.
"COOPER SQ. PROJECT IS ADDING 8 ACRES". The New York Times. November 30, 1956. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
"PLAN FOR COOPER SQ. RAISES OBJECTIONS". The New York Times. June 3, 1959. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
"Perspectives: The Cooper Square Plan; Smoothing the Path to Redevelopment". The New York Times. January 27, 1991. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
Eric Asimov (April 10, 2002). "And to Think that I Ate it on Clinton Street". The New York Times. Retrieved May 12, 2011.
Bagli, Charles V. (September 17, 2013). "City Plans Redevelopment for Vacant Area in Lower Manhattan". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 19, 2022.
Fabricant, Florence "Kossar's Returns With Bagels and Bialys on the Lower East Side", The New York Times, February 2, 2016. Accessed November 30, 2017. "Kossar's Bagels & Bialys In the bagel capital of the world, the bialy, the round, flattened roll with onions in the center, also gets its due. Evan Giniger and David Zablocki, who in 2013 bought the 80-year-old Kossar's Bialys on the Lower East Side, closed it in September for renovations."
Wells, Pete. "Standing 100 Years? So You Should Sit; Restaurant Review: Russ & Daughters Cafe", The New York Times, July 29, 2014. Accessed November 30, 2017.
Kliment, Stephen A. "When Places of the Spirit Face Concrete Realities", The New York Times, December 27, 1998. Accessed November 28, 2022. "Bialystoker Synagogue is architecturally the grandest of the synagogues earmarked for the Lower East Side trail. Built in 1826 as the Willett Street Methodist Church, it is a pedimented Greek-Revival gem of gray stone and red brick and spectacular stained glass."
Smith, Sarah Harrison. "History Meets Opportunity",The New York Times, October 21, 2012. Accessed November 28, 2022. "The Bialystoker Synagogue was built in 1826 as a Methodist church and is said to have sheltered fugitive slaves in its early days. In 1905, an Orthodox Jewish congregation from Bialystok, Poland, bought the building."
Salkin, Allen (June 3, 2007). "Lower East Side Is Under a Groove". The New York Times.
Lueck, Thomas J. (July 2, 2007). "As Noise Rules Take Effect, the City's Beat Mostly Goes On". The New York Times.
"A Manhattan District Where School Choice Amounts to Segregation". The New York Times. June 7, 2017. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
"Where Nearly Half of Pupils Are Homeless, School Aims to Be Teacher, Therapist, Even Santa". The New York Times. June 7, 2016. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
Howe, Irving. "Life Never Let Up; Call It Sleep. By Henry Roth. With an afterword by Walter Allen. 448 pp. New York: Avon Books. Paper, 95 cents.", The New York Times, October 25, 1964. Accessed November 8, 2022.
Schoemer, Karen. "Lowlife: It's a Life", The New York Times, February 21, 1993. Accessed November 30, 2017. "Luc Sante reveals the Lower East Side. As he roams the area, one of New York's oldest neighborhoods, buildings, doorways and details that would usually go unnoticed suddenly come into clear focus; a strange and vibrant life shows itself beneath the grime and residue of time. Mr. Sante's two books, Low Life and Evidence, bring this world to the page."
Kirn, Walter. "Neighborhood Watch", The New York Times, March 16, 2008. Accessed November 30, 2017. "In Lush Life, Richard Price's eighth novel, the resurfacing project that caps the same old potholes (and threatens to collapse in certain areas, potentially creating immense new craters capable of swallowing small crowds) targets the tangled, once tenement-lined streets of New York City's Lower East Side. In Realtor-speak, the district is 'in transition,' which means in Police Department terms that its college-educated young renting class and bonus-gorged co-op-owning elite can still score narcotics from the old-guard locals, whose complexions are generally darker than the new folks', making them easy to spot on party nights but tricky to ID in photo lineups come the red-eyed mornings after."
Gates, Anita. "Theater Review; On a Roof, Vignettes That Get Around", The New York Times, September 21, 1998. Accessed November 30, 2017. "The three vignettes – showing a Yiddish-Sicilian theater, a dangerous turn-of-the-century tavern and a contemporary Lower East Side scene – were nicely done, with lovely period costumes by Mary Myers."
Gates, Anita. "George Barris, Photographer Who Captured the Last Images of Marilyn Monroe, Dies at 94", The New York Times, October 4, 2016. Accessed October 4, 2016. "George Barris was born on June 14, 1922, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He was the youngest of nine children of Joseph and Eva Barris, immigrants from Romania, who lived on Delancey Street but soon moved to the Bronx."
Goldstein, Richard. "Sy Berger, Who Turned Baseball Heroes Into Brilliant Rectangles, Dies at 91", The New York Times, December 14, 2014. Accessed September 29, 2016. "Seymour Perry Berger was born on July 12, 1923, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, one of three children."
Krebs, Albin. "George Burns, Straight Man And Ageless Wit, Dies at 100", The New York Times, March 10, 1996. Accessed September 29, 2016. "Mr. Burns, whose original name was Nathan Birnbaum, was born on Jan. 20, 1896, on Pitt Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the ninth of twelve children."
Flint, Peter B. "James Cagney is Dead at 86; Master of Pugnacious Grace", The New York Times, March 31, 1986. Accessed September 29, 2016. "James Francis Cagney Jr. was born July 17, 1899, on Manhattan's Lower East Side and grew up there and in the Yorkville section."
Associated Press. "Ralph Goldstein, 83, Olympian With Lasting Passion for Fencing", The New York Times, July 28, 1997. Accessed February 7, 2018. "Mr. Goldstein, who was born Oct. 6, 1913, in Malden, Mass., and grew up on the Lower East Side, attended Brooklyn College and had lived in Yonkers since 1948."
Rogers, Thomas. "Ruby Goldstein, Ex-Fighter And Controversial Referee", The New York Times, April 24, 1984. Accessed January 19, 2024. "Goldstein, born on Cherry Street on the Lower East Side, was known as the Jewel of the Ghetto during his fighting career."
Kourlas, Gia (February 4, 2022) "David Gordon, a Wizard of Movement and Words, Dies at 85" The New York Times
Berger, Phil. "Rocky Graziano, Ex-Ring Champion, Dead at 71", The New York Times, May 23, 1990. Accessed January 19, 2024. "Born Thomas Rocco Barbella, Mr. Graziano grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the son of a former boxer nicknamed Fighting Nick Bob."
McFadden, Robert D. "David Greenglass, the Brother Who Doomed Ethel Rosenberg, Dies at 92", The New York Times, October 14, 2014. Accessed January 19, 2024. "Mr. Greenglass, who grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in a household that believed Marxism would save humanity, was an ardent, preachy Communist when drafted by the Army in World War II, but no one in the barracks took him very seriously, much less believed him capable of spying."
Weber, Bruce. "Sally Gross, Choreographer of Minimalist Dances, Dies at 81", The New York Times, July 24, 2015. Accessed March 25, 2021. "Sarah Freiberg was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on Aug. 3, 1933. Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland — her father was a fruit peddler — and as a girl she spoke Yiddish at home."
Wilson, John S. "E.Y. Harburg, Lyricist, Killed In Car Crash", The New York Times, March 7, 1981. Accessed March 25, 2021. "Edgar Harburg was born on New York's Lower East Side on April 8, 1896, the son of immigrants. From childhood, he was known as Yip, short for Yipsel, which he gave as his middle name although he said he acquired it as a boy on the East Side."
"Lazarus Joseph Dies At Age Of 75; City Controller 1946–54 6-Term State Senator", The New York Times, May 24, 1966. Accessed March 25, 2021. "Mr. Joseph was born Jan. 25, 1891, on the Lower East Side. He attended Public School 2 on Henry Street and the High School of Commerce and graduated from the Educational Alliance, a settlement house."
Brady, Lois Smith. "WEDDING: VOWS; Jane Katz and Herbert L. Erlanger", The New York Times May 5, 1996. Accessed July 13, 2017. "Dr. Jane Katz, a competitive long-distance and synchronized swimmer grew up on the Lower East Side in the 1940s and 50s."
Koppel, Niko (August 5, 2008) "Little Angel Was Here: A Keith Haring Collaborator Makes His Mark", The New York Times Accessed February 22, 2021. "After Haring died, Mr. Ortiz returned to his former life on the Lower East Side"
Weiser, Benjamin. "Sheldon Silver's 2015 Corruption Conviction Is Overturned", The New York Times, July 13, 2017. Accessed July 13, 2017. "Mr. Silver, a 73-year-old Democrat from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, served for more than two decades as Assembly speaker."
Horn, Olivia. "Sombr Loves Women (and They Love Him Back), Haters Be Damned", The New York Times, September 8, 2025. Accessed February 10, 2026. "Shane Boose, who records as Sombr, in the Lower East Side, the Manhattan neighborhood where he grew up. The letters 'L,' 'E' and 'S' are tattooed on the knuckles of his left hand."

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Berger, Joseph. "No More Babka? There Goes the Neighborhood", The New York Times, July 2, 2007. Accessed November 30, 2017. "Gertel's, the legendary bakery on Hester Street on the Lower East Side known for its Jewish treats like rugelach, babka and marble cake, has closed its doors.... Opened in 1914, Gertel's, at 53 Hester Street near Essex Street, closed on June 22."

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"Answers About the New York Mafia", The New York Times, October 8, 2008. Accessed January 19, 2024. "No one was ever charged in the murder, but as I disclosed 44 years later in my Oct. 18, 2001, column, the primary shooter of Albert Anastasia was the mobster Steven (Stevie Coogan) Grammauta. The second gunman was Arnold Wittenberg. Both men, along with the hit-team leader, Stephen Armone, were heroin dealers from the Lower East Side. Mr. Grammauta, now 91, is the only surviving member."

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"Gilbert Tauber, "Old Streets of New York: Delancey Farm grid"". Oldstreets.com. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
"Gilbert Tauber, "Old Streets of New York: Corlaers or Corlears Hook"". Oldstreets.com. Retrieved May 14, 2011.

orlandosentinel.com (Global: 798^th place; English: 405^th place)

Day, Crosby. "Garfield: An Actor Who Stood His Ground", Orlando Sentinel, February 7, 2003. Accessed January 19, 2024. "John Garfield's reputation since his death seems to have hardened into a list of tired clichés: tough kid from New York's Lower East Side makes good; the first angry young man; the original rebel without a cause; the first method actor; the forerunner of Brando, Clift, Dean and De Niro."

patch.com (Global: 1,504^th place; English: 723^rd place)

"City Plans Playground, Turf Upgrades On Manhattan's East Side". East Village, NY Patch. May 23, 2019. Retrieved June 3, 2019.

people.com (Global: 69^th place; English: 49^th place)

Campione, Katie. "Lady Gaga's Former Lower East Side Apartment Is Available to Rent for $2,000 a Month", People, March 2, 2021. Accessed January 19, 2024. "Lady Gaga's former Lower East Side apartment is on the market! The unit, located at 176 Stanton Street, is available to rent for $2,000 a month."

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Bagcal, Jenna (August 29, 2018). "Newly launched NYC Ferry route takes riders from Long Island City to the Lower East Side in 30 minutes". QNS.com. Retrieved August 29, 2018.

rollingstone.com (Global: 57^th place; English: 39^th place)

Staff (September 19, 2013) Tour the Lower East Side With Madonna in 1983, Rolling Stone

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Gragg, Larry. Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side Of The American Dream, Rutgers University, August 2021. Accessed February 10, 2026. "Still, anyone who is unaware of the life of this gangster, born on the Lower East Side in New York City, will likely find Shnayerson's biography to be an engaging introduction."

sabr.org (Global: 1,462^nd place; English: 669^th place)

Jacobsen, Louis. "Will The Real Rabbi Of Swat Please Stand Up?", Society for American Baseball Research. Accessed February 10, 2026. "He was born on Hester Street, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, on December 8, 1900."

samuelfrench.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Welcome to Arroyo's by Kristoffer Diaz, Samuel French, Inc. Accessed November 30, 2017. "A sweet, loose-limbed shout out to Manhattan's Lower East Side…With a Greek chorus of DJs who 'mix' the play right in front of us, WELCOME shows that hip-hop can still goose mainstream theater instead of merely filling the diversity slot."

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"History". Seward Park High School Alumni Association. Retrieved April 16, 2011.

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Meyer, Joshua. "Once Upon A Time In America Sparked An Obsession For Sergio Leone Read More: https://www.slashfilm.com/974548/once-upon-a-time-in-america-sparked-an-obsession-for-sergio-leone/", /Film, August 27, 2022. Accessed March 31, 2024. "Sergio Leone began the long road to his final film, Once Upon a Time in America, as far back as the late 1960s, when he was in New York to meet about the marketing for Once Upon a Time in the West. Leone had read the 1952 novel The Hoods by Harry Grey — believed to be the pen name of Herschel Goldberg, a real-life Jewish American gangster who had written the book as a fictional autobiography of sorts during a prison stint"

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"A Taste of the Old Lower East Side: Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery in New York", Slate Atlas Obscura. Accessed November 30, 2017. "As much of New York's old Lower East Side disappears with the changing times, there are still traces of the original neighborhood to be explored, and in the case of Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery, eaten and enjoyed."

smithsonianmag.com (Global: 663^rd place; English: 431^st place)

Susan Spano. "A Short Walking Tour of New York's Lower East Side". Smithsonian. Retrieved March 29, 2016.

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"StarLiner Events NYNY". www.starlinerevents.com.

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Congressional District 10, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed August 28, 2026.
Assembly District 65, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed May 5, 2017.
Assembly District 74, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed May 5, 2017.
Senate District 27, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed August 28, 2026.

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Dreifus, Erika. "Immigrant Story: The Value of Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers; At New York's Tenement Museum, panelists discussed the still-relevant meaning of Yezierska's novel about an immigrant Jewish family on the Lower East Side", Tablet (magazine), December 10, 2015. Accessed November 30, 2017. "'There wasn't anybody who didn't know Anzia Yezierska,' commented a woman recently of the 1920s. 'Today, there is hardly anyone who does.' So wrote historian Alice Kessler-Harris in her 1975 introduction to Yezierska's Bread Givers, a novel about Jewish immigrant life on the Lower East Side, first published in 1925."

tenement.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

Hoppe, Randolph. "Jack Kirby: Superhero Creator of the Lower East Side", Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Accessed March 25, 2021. "Did you know that Captain America is from the Lower East Side? It's true. So are Thor, the Hulk, Ant-Man, the Avengers, and the X-Men. All of these characters were co-created by Lower East Side native, Jack Kirby, one of the most important and prolific storytellers of the 20th century."

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The Corners Project, archived from the original on July 18, 2019, retrieved March 2, 2010

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Acevedo, Carlos. "Lightning Express: The Quick Rise & Even Quicker Fall of Al Singer", The Cruelest Sport, December 11, 2012. Accessed July 13, 2017. "Born in New York City on September 6, 1909, Al Singer spent his early years on the Lower East Side before his father, a successful businessman, moved the family to Pelham Parkway in the Bronx."

theguardian.com (Global: 16^th place; English: 11^th place)

"Poem of the week: Secrecy by Samuel Greenberg", The Guardian, October 26, 2020. Accessed January 19, 2024. "Samuel Greenberg was born in Vienna in 1893. His family emigrated to the US when he was seven and he grew up on New York City’s Lower East Side."

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"La Plaza Cultural is renamed for Armando Perez". Retrieved March 29, 2016.

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Salome of the Tenements, University of Illinois Press. Accessed March 31, 2024. "Passionate and engagingly sardonic, it criticizes the concept of the American "Melting Pot" in the language of the Lower East Side and exposes the hypocrisy of the "good works" of the privileged class and their so-called dedication to the poor."

umn.edu (Global: 1,293^rd place; English: 776^th place)

upress.umn.edu

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Mele, Christopher; Kurt Reymers; Daniel Webb. "The 1960s Counterculture and the Invention of the "East Village"". Selling the Lower East Side. Archived from the original on May 14, 2011. Retrieved January 17, 2007.

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"Race / Ethnic Change by Neighborhood" (Excel file). Center for Urban Research, The Graduate Center, CUNY. May 23, 2011. Retrieved March 19, 2020.

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"Location Details: Pitt". USPS.com. Retrieved March 7, 2019.

vice.com (Global: 247^th place; English: 175^th place)

Ameen, Taji (May 4, 2013). "Clayton Patterson's Music Week".

villagevoice.com (Global: 1,275^th place; English: 702^nd place)

McEvers, Kelly (March 2, 2005). "Close-Up on the Lower East Side". Village Voice. Archived from the original on October 23, 2006. Retrieved January 13, 2007.

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Chen, Xiaoning (July 1, 2019). "The Decline of East Broadway?". Voices of New York. Archived from the original on May 27, 2019. Retrieved November 10, 2019.

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Hinson, Hal. "Crossing Delancey", Washington Post, September 16, 1988. Accessed November 30, 2017.

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Barrett, Devlin. "Threats to history seen in budget cuts, bulldozers". Yahoo! News. Archived from the original on June 3, 2008. Retrieved March 16, 2010.
McEvers, Kelly (March 2, 2005). "Close-Up on the Lower East Side". Village Voice. Archived from the original on October 23, 2006. Retrieved January 13, 2007.
Mele, Christopher; Kurt Reymers; Daniel Webb. "Selling the Lower East Side – Geography Page". Selling the Lower East Side. Archived from the original on June 19, 2010. Retrieved January 17, 2007.
Mele, Christopher; Kurt Reymers; Daniel Webb. "The 1960s Counterculture and the Invention of the "East Village"". Selling the Lower East Side. Archived from the original on May 14, 2011. Retrieved January 17, 2007.
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Chen, Xiaoning (July 1, 2019). "The Decline of East Broadway?". Voices of New York. Archived from the original on May 27, 2019. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
"Lower East Side and Chinatown – DNAinfo.com Crime and Safety Report". www.dnainfo.com. Archived from the original on April 15, 2017. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
Fishkoff, Sue (May 22, 2009). "The new American Girl doll: She's Jewish, she's poor and her name is Rebecca". Archived from the original on May 31, 2012. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
Perler, Elie (July 29, 2014). "Abe's Antiques on Stanton Street is a Set for ABC's 'Forever'". Bowery Boogie. New York City: Bowery Boogie. Archived from the original on August 12, 2016. Retrieved April 30, 2017.
Robbins, Tom. "Miriam Friedlander's Good Fight", The Village Voice, October 15, 2009. Accessed March 16, 2022. "Miriam Friedlander, the spirited former councilwoman from the Lower East Side, died last week at 95, and we would count ourselves enormously lucky should her type come this way again."

worldcat.org (Global: 4^th place; English: 4^th place)

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Bagli, Charles V. (September 17, 2013). "City Plans Redevelopment for Vacant Area in Lower Manhattan". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 19, 2022.

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Berger, Paul (August 29, 2018). "NYC Ferry Begins Lower East Side Service". WSJ. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
Groom, Winston. "A Gangster Goes to War", The Wall Street Journal, October 2, 2010. Accessed September 29, 2016. "In New York right after the turn of the 20th century, the baddest man in the whole downtown was a thug named Monk Eastman, who controlled a gang of 2,000 Jewish hoodlums on Manhattan's Lower East Side."
"Veteran Actors, First Time Nominees". The Wall Street Journal. February 19, 2009. Retrieved January 18, 2011.

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"East Village New York School Ratings and Reviews". Zillow. Retrieved March 17, 2019.

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"Lower East Side, New York City-Manhattan, New York Zip Code Boundary Map (NY)". United States Zip Code Boundary Map (USA). Retrieved March 21, 2019.

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