The Lower East Side: Where Historic Tenements Meet Glassy Towers
In recent years, the country’s ‘most famous immigrant neighborhood’ has welcomed new high-end development. But it still has an old-school vibe.
By Aileen Jacobson
Published Dec. 23, 2020Updated Dec. 24, 2020
Richard Kimmel was drawn to the Lower East Side partly by “a lot of family history,” he said, including his great-grandmother, “who arrived at Ellis Island on the Fourth of July in 1898,” and made her way to the densely populated neighborhood that has long been a haven for immigrants of many origins, with Eastern European Jews predominating at the turn of the last century.
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