A report on Lower East Side and Houston Street

Tenement buildings on the Lower East Side

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

East Houston Street between Clinton and Suffolk Streets in the 1920s

Houston Street at Lafayette Street in 1974

"Cliff Dwellers" by Bellows, depicting the Lower East Side as it was in the early 20th century

Katz's Deli, a symbol of the neighborhood's Jewish cultural history

Little Fuzhou, in Chinatown, the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, is located on the Lower East Side.

Line of patrons at the Clinton St. Baking Company & Restaurant in 2010

New York Public Library, Seward Park branch

The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES and sometimes referred to as Loisaida, is a historic neighborhood in the southeastern part of the New York City borough of Manhattan, roughly between the Bowery and the East River from Canal to Houston streets.

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Houston Street generally serves as the boundary between neighborhoods on the East Side of Manhattan—Alphabet City, the East Village, NoHo, Greenwich Village, and the West Village to the north, and the Lower East Side, most of the Bowery, Nolita, and SoHo to the south.

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Manhattan

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Most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

Pieter Schaghen's 1626 letter saying Manhattan was purchased for 60 guilders.

The Castello Plan showing the Dutch city of New Amsterdam in 1660, at the southern tip of Manhattan

Washington's statue in front of Federal Hall on Wall Street, where in 1789 he was sworn in as first U.S. president

Manhattan in 1873. The Brooklyn Bridge was under construction from 1870 until 1883

The "Sanitary & Topographical Map of the City and Island of New York", commonly known as the Viele Map, was created by Egbert Ludovicus Viele in 1865

Manhattan's Little Italy, Lower East Side, circa 1900

Manhattan personified, early 20th century

V-J Day in Times Square in Times Square, 1945

Flooding on Avenue C caused by Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012

Satellite image of Manhattan Island, bounded by the Hudson River to the west, the Harlem River to the north, the East River to the east, and New York Harbor to the south, with rectangular Central Park prominently visible. Roosevelt Island, in the East River, belongs to Manhattan.

Location of Manhattan (red) within New York City (remainder yellow)

Manhattan schist outcropping in Central Park

Liberty Island is an exclave of Manhattan, of New York City, and of New York State, that is surrounded by New Jersey waters

The Empire State Building in the foreground looking southward from the top of Rockefeller Center, with One World Trade Center in the background, at sunset. The Midtown South Community Council acts as a civic caretaker for much of the neighborhood between the skyscrapers of Midtown and Lower Manhattan.

The Estonian House, the main center of Estonian culture amongst Estonian Americans

A. T. Stewart in 1870, 9th Street, Manhattan

Many tall buildings have setbacks on their facade due to the 1916 Zoning Resolution. This is exemplified at Park Avenue and 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan.

The New York Stock Exchange, by a significant margin the world's largest stock exchange per market capitalization of its listed companies, at US$23.1 trillion as of April 2018.

The Financial District of Lower Manhattan, seen from Brooklyn

The Flatiron District is the center and birthplace of Silicon Alley

Times Square is the hub of the Broadway theater district and a major cultural venue in Manhattan, it also has one of the highest annual attendance rates of any tourist attraction in the world, estimated at 50 million

The New York Times headquarters, 620 Eighth Avenue

Butler Library at Columbia University, with its notable architectural design

New York Public Library Main Branch at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue

The scene at Manhattan's 2015 LGBT Pride March. The annual event rivals the sister São Paulo event as the world's largest pride parade, attracting tens of thousands of participants and millions of sidewalk spectators each June.

Madison Square Garden is home to the Rangers and Knicks, and hosts some Liberty games

A slum tour through the Five Points in an 1885 sketch

At the time of its construction, London Terrace in Chelsea was the largest apartment building in the world

Grand Central Terminal is a National Historic Landmark.

Ferries departing Battery Park City and helicopters flying above Manhattan

The Staten Island Ferry, seen from the Battery, crosses Upper New York Bay, providing free public transportation between Staten Island and Manhattan.

The Brooklyn Bridge to the right and the Manhattan Bridge towards the left, are two of the three bridges that connect Lower Manhattan with Brooklyn over the East River.

Eighth Avenue, looking northward ("Uptown"), in the rain; most streets and avenues in Manhattan's grid plan incorporate a one-way traffic configuration

Tourists looking westward at sunset to observe the July 12, 2016 Manhattanhenge

Ferry service departing Battery Park City towards New Jersey, see from Paulus Hook

Others, such as Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side, Alphabet City and the East Village, have long been associated with the Bohemian subculture.

Although the grid does start with 1st Street, just north of Houston Street (the southernmost street divided in west and east portions; pronounced HOW-stin), the grid does not fully take hold until north of 14th Street, where nearly all east–west streets are numerically identified, which increase from south to north to 220th Street, the highest numbered street on the island.

East Village, Manhattan

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Neighborhood on the East Side of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

Stuyvesant Street, one of the neighborhood's oldest streets, in front of St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery. This street served as the boundary between boweries 1 and 2, owned by Peter Stuyvesant.

Former German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse at 12 St Mark's Place (1885), part of Little Germany

The Village East Cinema/Louis N. Jaffe Theater was originally a Jewish theater

St. Nicholas Kirche at East 2nd Street, just west of Avenue A. The church and almost all buildings on the street were demolished in 1960 and replaced with parking lots for the Village View Houses

The Phyllis Anderson Theater, one of several theaters that were originally Yiddish theaters

A wall in the East Village in 1998, featuring a mural of two men

"Extra Place", an obscure side street off of East 1st Street, just east of the Bowery

East 5th Street between Second Avenue and Cooper Square is a typical side street in the heart of the East Village

Once synonymous with "Bowery Bums", the Bowery area has become a magnet for luxury condominiums as the East Village neighborhood's rapid gentrification continues

Taras Shevchenko Place, with St. George's Church on the north side, and St. George Academy on the south side.

1st Avenue, looking north at 10th Street

The Nuyorican Poets Café has been located off Avenue C and East 3rd Street since its founding in 1973.

Sherry Vine and Joey Arias during the 2009 HOWL! Festival

Tompkins Square Park is the recreational and geographic heart of the East Village. It has historically been a part of counterculture, protest and riots

A production of John Reed's All the World's a Grave in the New York Marble Cemetery, which does not contain headstones

New York Public Library, Ottendorfer branch

Punk rock icon and writer Richard Hell still lives in the same apartment in Alphabet City that he has had since the 1970s

Miss Understood stops a bus in front of the Lucky Cheng's restaurant at 2nd Street on First Avenue.

It is roughly defined as the area east of the Bowery and Third Avenue, between 14th Street on the north and Houston Street on the south.

By the middle of the century, it grew to include a large immigrant population—including what was once referred to as Manhattan's Little Germany—and was considered part of the nearby Lower East Side.

Alphabet City, Manhattan

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Neighborhood located within the East Village in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

Preserved salt marsh on Long Island comparable to ecosystem of Alphabet City area before urbanization in the 1820s

Alphabet City area as laid out in Commissioners' Plan of 1811. Note, the majority is depicted as marsh. Envisioned "Market Place" was never built, but the portion between Avenues A and B is now Tompkins Square Park. Long, shaded diagonals off North Street (now Houston) indicate rope making walks.

1833 map and plan shows development (shaded blocks) primarily along the river. Wharfs are built north to 8th Street and east to current FDR drive. Planned shoreline (ghosted) is near current location and would be built out over the next three decades.

Depiction of shipyards in 1848 from across East River

1882 sketch of moonlit "Mechanics' Bell" at 5th & Lewis Street where shipyards had given way to lumberyards. The bell once represented the abolition of the "dark to dark" workday.

Tompkins Square branch of the New York Public Library on East 10th Street

A homeless man walks past a trendy sidewalk bar on Avenue C.

It is bounded by Houston Street to the south and 14th Street to the north, and extends roughly from Avenue A to the East River.

However, there is much dispute over the borders of the Lower East Side, Alphabet City, and East Village.

Bowery

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Street and neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

Looking north from Grand Street, showing the tracks of the Third Avenue Elevated, circa 1910

The Bowery (unmarked), leading to the "Road to Kings Bridge, where the Rebels mean to make a Stand" in a British map of 1776

The Bull's Head Tavern in the Bowery, 1801 – c. 1860

Berenice Abbott photograph of a Bowery restaurant in 1935, when the street was lined with flophouses

The Bowery Lodge is one of the last remaining flophouses on the Bowery

Crowds along the "Bowery at night," c. 1895 painting by William Louis Sonntag, Jr.

To the south is Chinatown, to the east are the Lower East Side and the East Village, and to the west are Little Italy and NoHo.

The Bowery from Houston to Delancey Street still serves as New York's principal market for restaurant equipment, and from Delancey to Grand for lamps.

FDR Drive

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9.68 mi limited-access parkway on the east side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

FDR Drive northbound approaching the NY 25 (Queensboro Bridge) interchange

Southbound viaduct at 28th Street in Kips Bay

FDR Drive near the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge.

The FDR Drive continues north through Lower East Side and Alphabet City, and dips under Houston Street at exit 5, in a three-way interchange.

Mott Street between Houston and Prince Streets

Nolita

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Neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

14th Ward Industrial School, designed by Calvert Vaux

Nolita is situated in Lower Manhattan, bounded on the north by Houston Street, on the east by the Bowery, on the south roughly by Broome Street, and on the west by Lafayette Street.

It lies east of SoHo, south of NoHo, west of the Lower East Side, and north of Little Italy and Chinatown.

Second Avenue station

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The Second Avenue station is a station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Second Avenue and Houston Street on the border between the East Village and the Lower East Side, in Manhattan.

Essex Street

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Essex Street is a north-south street on the Lower East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

North of Houston Street, the street becomes Avenue A, which goes north to 14th Street.