Lower East Side
The Lower East Side of Manhattan is a mix of old and new, bohemian and upscale: you can find trendy bars and music venues, a venerable old no-nonsense place that just might serve up the best pastrami sandwich in the world, and great bialys.Photo: Moncrief, Public domain.
Photo: Gryffindor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Manhattan Bridge
Photo: Dav5nyc, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan at Canal Street with Downtown Brooklyn at the Flatbush Avenue Extension.
Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City, spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn.New Museum
Photo: Moritz Schmaltz, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is a museum in New York City at 235 Bowery, on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
Localities in the Area
Chinatown
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Manhattan's famous Chinatown is a lively neighborhood, full of good values in restaurants and food shopping.
SoHo
SoHo, short for "South of Houston" and a reference to its supposed similarities to the London Soho, is a diverse and increasingly upscale neighborhood of Manhattan.East Village
Photo: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The East Village, east of the Village on Manhattan, was traditionally considered part of the Lower East Side, and constitutes the portion north of Houston St, south of 14th St, and east of Broadway.
Lower East Side
- Type: Neighbourhood with 73,000 residents
- Description: neighbourhood in Manhattan, New York City, United States
- Categories: administrative division and locality
- Location: Manhattan, New York City, Downstate New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.71594° or 40° 42' 57" northLongitude
-73.98681° or 73° 59' 13" westPopulation
73,000Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)Open Location Code
87G8P287+97OpenStreetMap ID
node 158853595OpenStreetMap Feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
5125409Wikidata ID
Q1511813Lower East Side Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: الجانب الشرقي الأدنى لمانهاتن
- Armenian: Ստորին Իսթ Սայդ
- Azerbaijani: Aşağı İst-Sayd
- Basque: Lower East Side
- Catalan: Lower East Side
- Chinese: 下东区
- Chinese: 下东城
- Chinese: 下東城
- Czech: Lower East Side
- Danish: Lower East Side
- Dutch: Lower East Side
- English: Lower East Side, Manhattan
- English: Lower East Side, New York City
- Esperanto: Lower East Side
- Esperanto: Malsupra Orienta Flanko
- Estonian: Lower East Side
- Finnish: Lower East Side
- French: Lower East Side
- French: Lower East Side de Manhattan
- Galician: Lower East Side
- Georgian: ქვემო ისტ-საიდი
- German: Lower East Side
- Greek: Λόουερ Ηστ Σάιντ
- Hebrew: לואר איסט סייד
- Indonesian: Lower East Side
- Italian: Lower East Side
- Japanese: ロウアー・イースト・サイド
- Japanese: ローワー・イースト・サイド
- Korean: 로어이스트사이드
- Kurdish: Lower East Side
- Latin: Lower East Side
- Norwegian: Lower East Side
- Norwegian Bokmål: Lower East Side
- Persian: لوئر ایست ساید
- Persian: لوور ایست ساید
- Polish: Lower East Side
- Portuguese: Lower East Side
- Russian: Лауэр-Ист-Сайд
- Russian: Нижний Ист-Сайд
- Slovak: Lower East Side
- South Azerbaijani: لوور ایست سید
- Spanish: Lower East Side
- Spanish: Lower East Side (Manhattan)
- Swedish: Lower East Side
- Turkish: Lower East Side
- Welsh: Lower East Side
- Yiddish: לאוער איסט סייד
- LES
Other Places Named Lower East Side
In the Area
- Alphabet CityNeighbourhood
- NoHoNeighbourhood
- Civic CenterNeighbourhood
- DumboNeighbourhood
- NoHo Historic DistrictNeighbourhood
- University VillageNeighbourhood
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Lower East Side. Photo: Gryffindor, CC BY-SA 3.0.