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

Stints in modeling and photography helped the heiress to the Coppola filmmaking dynasty forge her own path in the ’90s, one that stretched through New York’s Lower East Side all the way to magazine cut-out collages, plastered onto every artsy teenager’s wall.

From Salon

It built its current home on the Lower East Side in 2007 and it is as sensational today as when it opened.

From The Wall Street Journal

Brothers Joseph and Lyman Bloomingdale got their start in 1872 selling hoop skirts, corsets and other women’s fashions on New York’s Lower East Side.

From The Wall Street Journal

Her crusade reflected her earlier shock upon seeing Lower East Side tenements for the first time.

From The Wall Street Journal

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