Lower East Side

noun

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

Example Sentences

Noah Harlan, a tech executive whose daughters attend a gifted-and-talented school on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, is among them.

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The first episode chronicles his early life on the mean streets of New York’s Lower East Side.

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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.

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“The Lower East Side is not what the Lower East Side used to be,” Sandhaus said.

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Imagine the shock, then, when I found myself grinning ear to ear during the final act of Aronofsky’s latest, “Caught Stealing,” a rollicking lark through New York City’s semi-gentrified Lower East Side circa 1998, based on Charlie Huston’s 2005 novel of the same name.

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