Lower East Side

American  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

It’s a shame, because MacArthur Park is the backyard for one of the densest neighborhoods in the United States, a modern-day Lower East Side of immigrants and their children.

From Los Angeles Times

“Not all of them. Sometimes the shows are set on the Lower East Side?” she said.

From Literature

Anat had found at least four different bakeries stretching all the way down to the Lower East Side that they had yet to try, a couple of Chinese bakeries with delicate steamed buns and milk bread, a new Jewish bakery that specialized in pletzels, giant bread wheels that frankly made Molly almost as weak in the knees as Anat did, and the wild card, a punk-themed bakery on St. Marks, Punkpernickle, where every roll, cookie, and loaf shared a name with a noted band in the genre.

From Literature

But I was in New York in 1957 when the Five Spot on the Lower East Side was filled for five months, starting in July, with lay jazz enthusiasts but also with many visiting musicians who marveled at the continuous daring adventures of pianist-composer Thelonious Monk and tenor saxophonist John Coltrane.

From The Wall Street Journal

Naturally, some of the ideas Moore was listening to on these records and seeing in clubs on the Lower East Side began to shape his own understanding of improvised music.

From Los Angeles Times