Places that Matter
Place Explorer: Lower East Side
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| Place Name | Neighborhood | Borough | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABC No Rio | Lower East Side | Manhattan | Center for volunteerism, art & activism |
| Angel Orensanz Foundation Center for the Arts | Lower East Side | Manhattan | Art, concert & performance space in a historic synagogue building |
| Bialystoker Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing (aka Bialystoker Home for the Aged) | Lower East Side | Manhattan | Threatened historic Lower East Side elder care facility |
| Dixon Place | Lower East Side | Manhattan | Performance space for original and experimental works |
| East River Park | Lower East Side | Manhattan | Lower East Side park conceived by Robert Moses in the 1930s |
| Economy Candy | Lower East Side | Manhattan | Old fashioned candy shop offering local and world-wide favorites |
| Educational Alliance | Lower East Side | Manhattan | Century-old Lower East Side community center that serves 30,000 New Yorkers annually |
| Essex Street Market | Lower East Side | Manhattan | WPA-era indoor market |
| Garden Cafeteria (former, now Wing Shoon Restaurant) | Lower East Side | Manhattan | A storied Lower East Side gathering place |
| Guss' Pickles | Lower East Side | Manhattan | Offers pickles made from scratch and sold in barrels |
| Henry Street Settlement Headquarters | Lower East Side | Manhattan | Historic headquarters of a progressive Lower East Side community services center |
| Hua Mei Bird Garden | Lower East Side | Manhattan | Community garden in Sara Delano Roosevelt Park that houses beautiful songbirds |
| Jarmulowsky Bank Building | Lower East Side | Manhattan | A major Lower East Side bank from 1912-1917 |
| Jewish Daily Forward Building (former) | Lower East Side | Manhattan | Headquarters of Jewish newspaper, built in 1912 |
| Katz's Delicatessen | Lower East Side | Manhattan | A classic delicatessen, open since 1888 |
| Kossar's Bialys | Lower East Side | Manhattan | Oldest Bialy Bakery in the United States |
| Lower East Side Tenement Museum | Lower East Side | Manhattan | House museum presenting immigration history |
| Mariners' Temple Baptist Church | Lower East Side | Manhattan | Influential Baptist congregation |
| Roger's Garden (former) | Lower East Side | Manhattan | A real neighborhood deli |
| Russ and Daughters | Lower East Side | Manhattan | Appetizing Store located in the Lower East Side |
| Schapiro Wine Company (former) | Lower East Side | Manhattan | Kosher winery on the Lower East Side |
| Seward Park Housing Murals | Lower East Side | Manhattan | 1939 murals depicting Franklin Roosevelt and Einstein, among others |
| St. Augustine's Church | Lower East Side | Manhattan | Landmarked church that is restoring artifacts of racial segregation for study and education |
| Stanton Street Shul | Lower East Side | Manhattan | Rare tenement shul on the Lower East Side |
| Steve Brodie's saloon (site of) | Lower East Side | Manhattan | Saloon whose owner claimed to have jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge |
| Streit's Matzos | Lower East Side | Manhattan | Oldest family-run matzo manufacturing company in the United States |
| The Pickle Guys | Lower East Side | Manhattan | The last pickle store on Essex Street |
| Yonah Schimmel's Knishes Bakery | Lower East Side | Manhattan | Where a variety of knishes are baked from scratch daily |
