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Lower East Side

American  

noun

  1. a section in the borough of Manhattan, New York: noted for its immigrant culture.


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By 1930, Wald noted the large number of “empties” on the Lower East Side; immigrants had moved up and out to Brooklyn.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

In September, she saw a livestream of Bad Bunny’s final residency concert at Ray’s Bar on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

He was at an Artists for Zohran event in the Lower East Side, and that poll had just dropped.

From Slate • Nov. 12, 2025

For the first time in nearly two decades, CBGB, the beloved Lower East Side punk venue, was back in the New York groove, but in a different form and in a new setting.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2025

It belongs to a Jewish family from Romania who had a small grocery store in the Old Country and then came to New York and opened another, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell