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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 . [ 7 ]
Until the middle 20th century, Delancey Street was a main shopping street in the predominantly Jewish and Irish Lower East Side. Since the late 2000s, the neighborhood around Delancey is more diverse; including African Americans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Chinese. Gentrification has brought more upscale retail and nightlife establishments.
Orchard Street between Stanton and Rivington Streets, looking south, in 2008 The Lower East Side Tenement Museum Orchard Street in the late 19th century, seen from Rivington Street. Orchard Street is a street in Manhattan which covers the eight city blocks between Division Street in Chinatown and East Houston Street on the Lower East Side.
Essex Street is a north–south street on the Lower East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. North of Houston Street , the street becomes Avenue A , which goes north to 14th Street . South of Canal Street it becomes Rutgers Street , the southern end of which is at South Street .
The Delancey Street/Essex Street station is a station complex shared by the BMT Nassau Street Line and the IND Sixth Avenue Lines of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Essex and Delancey Streets on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, just west of the Williamsburg Bridge.
The Rivington Street municipal bath was located on Rivington Street from 1900 to 1975. In the early 1980s, Rivington Street between Essex and Bowery earned notoriety as a "drug supermarket" famous for "having the best drugs in the city." [2] Rivington Street is a cross street to the Lower East Side's main thoroughfares.
Midtown Manhattan is the area between 34th Street and 59th Street. Lower Manhattan is the area below 14th Street. West Side is the area west of Fifth Avenue; East Side is the area east of Fifth Avenue. Neighborhood names and boundaries are not officially defined. They may vary or change from time to time due to demographic and economic variables.
Between Catherine Street and Pike Street, the street is residential, dominated by mostly tenements. The street is considered one of the southern boundaries of Chinatown. [2] The Hamilton-Madison House at 50 Madison Street is a major provider of child care for the Chinatown, Two Bridges, and Lower East Side neighborhoods.