Lower East Side Apts & Neighborhood Information
The Lower East Side is located north of Houston and South of Division Street, and is housed between the East River and the Bowery. It began its history with Russian and Polish Jews fleeing persecution. Its richest legacy is the immigrant tradition of poor people coping with, and often overcoming, horrendous living conditions. Despite its low-rise nature, this has been one of the world’s densest areas in terms of population. For more than a century and a half, the Lower East Side has been one of the city’s poorest areas and has been very slow to change. Although its crowded conditions were eased somewhat by the public housing programs that began in the 1930’s and from eventual abandonment, it remains as a vast and devastating indictment of the city that so large an area remains so neglected so close to its core.
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The Ludlow188 Ludlow Street
Lower East Side
2 Beds from $5,480
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