Nathalie and Julius Gumpertz, East Prussian immigrants, lived at 97 Orchard during the Panic of 1873, a major economic depression. Downtown Manhattan is the area below 14th Street; Lower Manhattan is the area below Chambers Street. Neighborhood names and boundaries are not officially defined. The East Village is a neighborhood on the East Side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, United States.It is roughly defined as the area east of the Bowery and Third Avenue, between 14th Street on the north and Houston Street on the south. West Side is the area west of Fifth Avenue; East Side is the area east of Fifth Avenue. The bulge of Manhattan now known as the Lower East Side was originally farm land. They may vary or change from time to time due to demographic and economic variables.

If it had been its own city, the neighborhood would have been the fifth largest German city in the world. A classic example of just how important music has been to the history of the Lower East Side, The Bowery Ballroom was converted into a music venue in 1998. When it began to be developed for residences late in the 18th century, no law governed street layout. Astor, culture, East Village, General Slocum, German-Americans, Germania Bank Building, history, John Roebling, Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, Oswald Ottendorfer, Puck Building, travel The Italians, Irish, and Jews are three of the most prominent immigrant groups in the history of late 19th-century New York City. Many of the area’s synagogues, museums and restaurants serve as reminders of its immigrant history. In the 1870s, the Lower East Side was known as Little Germany. I took plenty of pictures.

The Lower East Side could certainly be frightening, dangerous, noisy, and cramped. Below are some of them. The Lower East Side is such a pretty neighborhood. Chances are someone in your family at one time called it home. Lower East Side This vibrant downtown neighborhood is a popular nightlife destination—its streets are lined with trendy places to drink, dance and hear live music.

However, it was still a place of relative safety compared to the virulently anti-Semitic Russian Empire. Midtown Manhattan is the area between 34th Street and 59th Street. And, however chaotic it might be, as some observers at the time noted, it was still the greatest concentration of Jewish life in nearly two thousand years. If you are Jewish and in NYC, take the opportunity and visit the neighborhood. It is known for being one of those places where one can lay claim to saying, “I saw them before they were famous.” Essex Street Market. It is impossible not to fall in love with it.