January 14, 2024 - 1:20 PM
37°F / 3°C
(snow flurries)

Neighborhood walking tour (without narration) of the Lower East Side in Manhattan, New York City, via the following route: northbound on Orchard Street → eastbound on Delancey Street → northbound on Essex Street → eastbound on Stanton Street → southbound on Clinton Street → westbound on East Broadway. Filmed with GoPro Hero 12.

Highlights:
00:00 - Walking northbound on Orchard Street
07:01 - Lower East Side Tenement Museum
08:12 - Walking eastbound on Delancey Street
09:55 - Essex Market, Delancey Street subway station
12:00 - Walking northbound on Essex Street
14:31 - Walking eastbound on Stanton Street
17:07 - Walking southbound on Clinton Street
20:32 - Williamsburg Bridge entrance
22:01 - Essex Crossing
23:55 - Seward Park Cooperative
26:00 - Walking westbound on East Broadway
27:06 - Seward Park Library, Seward Park
28:23 - Straus Square

From Wikipedia:
"The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a historic neighborhood in the southeastern part of Manhattan in New York City. It is located roughly between the Bowery and the East River from Canal to Houston streets. Historically, it was understood to encompass a much larger area, from Broadway to the East River and from East 14th Street to Fulton and Franklin Streets.

Traditionally an immigrant, working class neighborhood, it began rapid gentrification in the mid-2000s, prompting the National Trust for Historic Preservation to place the neighborhood on their list of America's Most Endangered Places in 2008.

The Lower East Side is roughly bounded by East 14th Street on the north, by the East River to the east, by Fulton and Franklin Streets to the south, and by Pearl Street and Broadway to the west. This more extensive definition of the neighborhood includes Chinatown, the East Village, and Little Italy. A less extensive definition would have the neighborhood bordered in the south and west by Chinatown, – which extends north to roughly Grand Street – in the west by Nolita and in the north by the East Village.

Historically, the "Lower East Side" referred to the area alongside the East River from about the Manhattan Bridge and Canal Street up to 14th Street, and roughly bounded on the west by Broadway. It included areas known today as East Village, Alphabet City, Chinatown, Bowery, Little Italy, and NoLIta. Parts of the East Village are still known as Loisaida, a Latino pronunciation of "Lower East Side"."

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