Lower East Side

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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.

From The Wall Street Journal

Her crusade reflected her earlier shock upon seeing Lower East Side tenements for the first time.

From The Wall Street Journal

By 1930, Wald noted the large number of “empties” on the Lower East Side; immigrants had moved up and out to Brooklyn.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

In most cases, they were the children of the poor, Yiddish-speaking immigrants who fled persecution in Russia and Eastern Europe and, in the late 19th century, began arriving in the U.S. in great numbers, often crowding into tenements on New York City’s Lower East Side.

From The Wall Street Journal