Around 1900, the Lower East Side was the most crowded place on earth. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants, Jews from Eastern Europe, Italians, Irish and Germans, squeezed into five- and six-story tenements, often a whole family in two small rooms, with a toilet in the yard. The streets were markets, full of pushcarts selling pickles, fish, clothes and anything else. Those families worked their way out to Brooklyn and the suburbs, but they left behind their delis, bakeries, synagogues and a sense of history you can still taste. Today the neighborhood is also a place of galleries, bars and late nights. This walk takes you from smoked fish and pastrami to tenements, speakeasies and street art.
- Nearest subway
- 2 Av F · 1 min walk to the start
The first 3 stops
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1Yonah Schimmel Knish Bakery
2Stop Guns Mural by Kobra
3Russ & Daughters
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Download on theApp StoreGet it onGoogle PlayAlso on this walk: Katz’s Delicatessen, Tenement Museum, Una Pizza Napoletana and more
Sights
- Beastie Boys Square
- Bowery
- Bowery Mural
- Freeman Alley
- International Center of Photography
- Lenin Statue
- Metrograph
- Museum at Eldridge Street
- New Museum
- PERROTIN NEW YORK
- Sara D. Roosevelt Park
- Seward Park
- Tenement Museum
- The Bowery Ballroom
- The Bowery Mission
- The Slipper Room
Food and drink
- Clinton St. Baking Company
- Doughnut Plant
- Economy Candy
- Essex Market
- Gotham Burger Social Club
- il laboratorio del gelato
- Jonny’s Pizza
- Katz’s Delicatessen
- Kossar’s Bagels & Bialys
- Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream
- Nurse Bettie
- Pizza School NYC
- Regina’s Grocery
- Roasting Plant
- Scarr’s Pizza
- Supermoon Bakehouse
- The Back Room
- The Pickle Guys
- Una Pizza Napoletana
Shops
- Daredevil Tattoo
