If This Town Is Just an Apple Then Let Me Take a Bite
Ultra-luxury five-star hotels, the largest supermarket in the Northeast, apartments renting for $80 a square foot, condominiums selling for $1,500 a square foot, top-flight restaurants, a hip nightlife scene, and high-end boutiques: It’s not TriBeCa, the meatpacking district, or the High Line area I’m talking about — it’s the Bowery and the Lower East Side.
After several years of stratospheric growth and a number of new developments dotting the skyline, the area once known for Gus’s Pickles, discount clothing, and a fair amount of vagrancy now commands real estate prices for new developments higher than found in parts of the Upper East Side, and comparable to Chelsea and the financial district. { NY Sun | Continue reading }
The Lower East Side today refers to the area of Manhattan south of East Houston Street and west of the East River. The Lower East side is bordered in the south and west by Chinatown (which extends north to roughly Grand Street), in the west by NoLIta and in the north by East Village. { Wikipedia | Continue reading }
photo { the Lower East Side in the 30s | Early Kodachrome Images }
+ previously { Shapiro Hardware Co, 320 Bowery, NYC, 1958 }
