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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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There is no rustle of pages or stacks of best-selling novels at the pop-up store opened by the Amazon subsidiary on the Lower East Side in Manhattan.

From Barron's • May 2, 2026

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 • Mar. 20, 2026

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 • Dec. 16, 2025

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

From Slate • Nov. 12, 2025

On the morning of the funeral, Morrie’s relatives came down the steps of his tenement building on the poor Lower East Side of Manhattan.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom

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