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Lower East Side

noun

  1. a section in the borough of Manhattan, New York: noted for its immigrant culture.


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In 1958, Thompson moved to New York’s Lower East Side, befriending poets, musicians and fellow artists.

The store would serve upwards of a thousand customers in a weekend, when shoppers flocked to the small Lower East Side store to buy candy in bulk for holiday gifts and parties.

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I learned that he was working and living in the Lower East Side, delivering orders for an Italian restaurant and raising two kids.

What about the fact that, well, some business owners would rather live on the Lower East Side than Laredo?

I grew up on the Lower East Side—before it was gentrified—and I have a high school diploma.

Last week I walked into Vanity Projects, a "nail-art atelier" on New York's Lower East Side.

Russ Daughters by Mark Russ Federman A memoir/cookbook from the longtime owner of a Lower East Side staple in Manhattan.

Carlson drove down into the lower east side of town, parked his car in a narrow street, and got out.

Ida Bergeson, a little girl of fifteen, was visited at half past eight o'clock one evening, in a tenement on the lower East Side.

Supposed he lived somewhere in the squalid slums of the lower East Side and his people, after all, were alive?

It was his first detail on the lower east side in the precinct commanded from the Eldridge street station.

He rose, left the liquor untouched, and in a few minutes was treading his way through the throngs of the lower East Side.

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