Lower East Side

Division Street is one of Manhattan’s most unremarked-on thoroughfares. It hasn’t gotten much respect over the centuries and decades, either — it’s been reduced to less than half of its…

Perfect weather returned for ForgottenTour #85 in Manhattan’s Lower East Side on October 19th, 2014. I perhaps overpacked the tour with highlights — 60 in all — so I had…

This pair of Federal Style houses at 511 and 513 Grand Street, just east of East Broadway, with peaked roofs and pedimented dormers, was constructed in 1828 by James Lent…

It’s hard to say which neighborhood the Cup & Saucer on Canal and Eldridge Streets is in. If this was 30 years ago you could say without a doubt it…

CONTINUED FROM PART 1 On a midweek summer day in 2014, to relieve boredom and get some exercise as much as anything else, I walked a large circular route through…

On a midweek summer day in 2014, to relieve boredom and get some exercise as much as anything else, I walked a large circular route through lower Manhattan, beginning and…

Cherry Street, which is named after a long lost cherry orchard, is one of the streets that run northeast in lower Manhattan, paralleling the East River up to Corlears Hook,…

Willett Street is yet another one of those streets on the Lower Easy Side that has been truncated to a version much shorter than it once was. These days it…

As you can see on this Dripps Atlas plate from 1867 (zoom in for a closer look) , in the ‘beginning’ there were nine streets that ran up the Lower…

I was walking up Henry Street in the Lower East Side recently, taking photos for a future examination of the street, when I encountered a Forgotten NY treasure that I…

Essex Market Place was a one-block alley running from Ludlow to Essex, between Grand and Broome. According to Gil Tauber at oldstreets.com, it was eliminated in 1926. Today the space…

Continued from PART 1 Continuing my trip from Straus Square on the Lower East Side to Midtown’s Penn Station… WAYFARING MAP: Seward Park to Penn Station   222 Bowery just…