East Side
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of East Side
An Americanism dating back to 1880–85
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Brothers Joseph and Lyman Bloomingdale got their start in 1872 selling hoop skirts, corsets and other women’s fashions on New York’s Lower East Side.
Her crusade reflected her earlier shock upon seeing Lower East Side tenements for the first time.
By 1930, Wald noted the large number of “empties” on the Lower East Side; immigrants had moved up and out to Brooklyn.
Police found the character actor in his Lower East Side apartment, Deadline reported, after neighbors heard Christmas music playing for days and one of them called authorities and the landlord for a wellness check.
From Los Angeles Times
The summer after his freshman year, Silverblatt worked a New York City mail route, delivering letters to the mayor’s mansion on an Upper East Side route that took him past numerous old bookstores and used-books shops.
From Los Angeles Times
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