The Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited: A History and Guide to a Legendary New York Neighborhood

The Lower East Side has been home to some of the city's most iconic restaurants, shopping venues, and architecture. The neighborhood has also welcomed generations of immigrants, from newly arrived Italians and Jews to today's Latino and Asian newcomers. This history has become somewhat obscured, however, as the Lower East Side can appear more hip than historic, with wealth and gentrification changing the character of the neighborhood. Chronicling these developments, along with the hidden gems that still speak of a vibrant immigrant identity, Joyce Mendelsohn provides a complete guide to the Lower East Side of then and now. After an extensive history that stretches back to Manhattan's first settlers, Mendelsohn offers 5 self-guided walking tours, including a new passage through the Bowery, that take the reader to more than 150 sites and highlight the dynamics of a community of contrasts: aged tenements nestled among luxury apartment towers abut historic churches and synagogues. With updated and revised maps, historical data, and an entirely new community to explore, Mendelsohn writes a brand-new chapter in an old New York story.

History

Mendelsohn, Joyce

Americas

Columbia University Press

The Lower East Side has been home to some of the city's most iconic restaurants, shopping venues, and architecture. The neighborhood has also welcomed generations of immigrants, from newly arrived Italians and Jews to today's Latino and Asian newcomers. This history has become somewhat obscured, however, as the Lower East Side can appear more hip than historic, with wealth and gentrification changing the character of the neighborhood. Chronicling these developments, along with the hidden gems that still speak of a vibrant immigrant identity, Joyce Mendelsohn provides a complete guide to the Lower East Side of then and now. After an extensive history that stretches back to Manhattan's first settlers, Mendelsohn offers 5 self-guided walking tours, including a new passage through the Bowery, that take the reader to more than 150 sites and highlight the dynamics of a community of contrasts: aged tenements nestled among luxury apartment towers abut historic churches and synagogues. With updated and revised maps, historical data, and an entirely new community to explore, Mendelsohn writes a brand-new chapter in an old New York story.

The third volume in the Conservancy Tours series, Touring the Flatiron explores the history, architecture and allure of the district anchored by the Flatiron building. The Flatiron district travels from the Victorian department stores of Ladies Mile to the early skyscrapers of Madison Square and the Greek Revival rowhouses of Gramercy Park and Chelsea, four neighborhoods linked together by 23rd St. 
Using period photographs, illustrations, maps and text, the pocket-size guidebook leads readers not only to the historic buildings but takes them beyond the facades to the stories of their inhabitants. Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, O.Henry, Stephen Crane, Standford White and Clement Clarke Moore were just a few prominent residents of the Flatiron district. 
Touring the Flatiron is your entr into the world of the carriage trade, the world of privilege and poverty depicted in such works as the Age of Innocence and Ragtime. Discover the rich history of one of New York Citys best loved districts on foot. Comfortable shoes are recommended.

Touring the Flatiron: Walks in Four Historic Neighborhoods

Travel

Specialty Travel

New York Landmarks Conservancy

New York's legendary Lower East Side holds a unique place in the hearts of millions of American families, because it was there that their immigrant ancestors made their first homes in this country and took their first steps on the road to freedom and success. With vivid descriptions, entertaining anecdotes, and an abundance of rare photographs, this marvelous little book puts that whole neighborhood in your hand -- and with it, the entire three-century sweep of history that gives the words "Lower East Side" such a special resonance and meaning. Presented as a series of self-guided walking tours (maps included) the book is actually an original, deeply researched and wonderfully satisfying history. No mere compendium of facts, "The Lower East Side Remembered & Revisited" fairly overflows with the personalities, anecdotes, institutions and images that have made the Lower East Side a legendary New York neighborhood and a cornerstone of the immigrant experience -- especially, but far from exclusively the Jewish immigrant experience -- in America.

The Lower East Side Remembered & Revisited

Lower East Side Pr

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The Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited: A History and Guide to a Legendary New York Neighborhood

The Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited: A History and Guide to a Legendary New York Neighborhood

Touring the Flatiron: Walks in Four Historic Neighborhoods

The Lower East Side Remembered & Revisited