Loisaida -- A New York Story
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Still, reform movements, such as the one started by Jacob A. Riis ' book How the Other Half Lives continued to attempt to alleviate the problems of the area through settlement houses , such as the Henry Street Settlement , and other welfare and service agencies. The city itself moved to address the problem when it built First Houses on the south side of East 3rd Street between First Avenue and Avenue A , and on the west side of Avenue A between East 2nd and East 3rd Streets in , the first such public housing project in the United States.
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By the turn of the twentieth century, the neighborhood had become closely associated with radical politics, such as anarchism , socialism and communism , and was also known as a place where many popular performers had grown up, such as the Marx Brothers , Eddie Cantor , Al Jolson , George and Ira Gershwin , Jimmy Durante , and Irving Berlin.
Later, more radical artists such as the Beat poets and writers were drawn to the neighborhood — especially the parts which later became the East Village — by the inexpensive housing and cheap food. The German population decreased in the early twentieth century as a result of the General Slocum disaster and due to anti-German sentiment prompted by World War I.
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Areas where Spanish speaking was predominant began to be called Loisaida. By the s, the influence of the Jewish and eastern European groups declined as many of these residents had left the area, while other ethnic groups had coalesced into separate neighborhood, such as Little Italy. The Lower East Side then experienced a period of "persistent poverty, crime, drugs, and abandoned housing".
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However, in the s, the demographics of the area above Houston Street began to change, as hipsters , musicians, and artists moved in. Newcomers and real estate brokers popularized the East Village name, and the term was adopted by the popular media by the mids. As the East Village developed a culture separate from the rest of the Lower East Side, the two areas came to be seen as two separate neighborhoods rather than the former being part of the latter.
By the s, the Lower East Side had begun to stabilize after its period of decline , and once again began to attract students, artists and adventurous members of the middle-class , as well as immigrants from countries such as Bangladesh , China , the Dominican Republic , India , Japan , Korea , the Philippines and Poland. In the early s, the gentrification of the East Village spread to the Lower East Side proper, making it one of the trendiest neighborhoods in Manhattan. Orchard Street , despite its "Bargain District" moniker, is now lined with upscale boutiques.
Similarly, trendy restaurants, including Clinton St. In November , the Blue Condominium , a unit, 16 story luxury condominium tower was completed at Norfolk Street just north of Delancey Street, the pixellated, faceted blue design of which starkly contrasts with the surrounding neighborhood. Following the construction of the Hotel on Rivington one block away, several luxury condominiums around Houston, and the New Museum on Bowery , this new wave of construction is another sign that the gentrification cycle is entering a high-luxury phase similar to in SoHo and Nolita in the previous decade.
More recently, the gentrification that was previously confined to north of Delancey Street continued south. Several restaurants, bars, and galleries opened below Delancey Street after , especially around the intersection of Broome and Orchard Streets. However, unlike The Hotel on Rivington, the Blue Moon used an existing tenement building, and its exterior is almost identical to neighboring buildings.
In September , it was announced that the Essex Crossing redevelopment project was to be built in the area, centered around the intersection of Essex and Delancey Streets, but mostly utilizing land south of Delancey Street. Based on data from the United States Census , the population of Lower East Side was 72,, an increase of 1. Covering an area of The racial makeup of the neighborhood was Hispanic or Latino of any race were One of the oldest neighborhoods of the city, the Lower East Side has long been a lower-class worker neighborhood and often a poor and ethnically diverse section of New York.
As well as Irish , Italians , Poles , Ukrainians , and other ethnic groups, it once had a sizeable German population and was known as Little Germany Kleindeutschland. Since the immigration waves from eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th century, the Lower East Side became known as having been a center of Jewish immigrant culture. In her book Lower East Side Memories: An Orthodox Jewish community is based in the area, operating yeshiva day schools and a mikvah. A few Judaica shops can be found along Essex Street and a few Jewish scribes and variety stores.
Some kosher delis and bakeries, as well as a few "kosher style" delis, including the famous Katz's Deli , are located in the neighborhood.
Second Avenue in the Lower East Side was home to many Yiddish theatre productions in the Yiddish Theater District during the early part of the 20th century, and Second Avenue came to be known as "Yiddish Broadway," though most of the theaters are gone. Since the midth century, the area has been settled primarily by immigrants, primarily from Latin America , especially Central America and Puerto Rico.
They have established their own groceries and shops, marketing goods from their culture and cuisine. Bodegas have replaced Jewish shops. They are mostly Roman Catholic. In what is now the East Village , the earlier populations of Poles and Ukrainians have moved on and been largely supplanted by newer immigrants. The immigration of numerous Japanese people over the last fifteen years or so has led to the proliferation of Japanese restaurants and specialty food markets. There is also a notable population of Bangladeshis and other immigrants from Muslim countries, many of whom are congregants of the small Madina Masjid Mosque , located on First Avenue and 11th Street.
The neighborhood still has many historic synagogues, such as the Bialystoker Synagogue , [40] Beth Hamedrash Hagadol , the Eldridge Street Synagogue , [41] Kehila Kedosha Janina the only Greek synagogue in the Western Hemisphere , [42] the Angel Orensanz Center the fourth oldest synagogue building in the United States , and various smaller synagogues along East Broadway.
Another landmark, the First Roumanian-American congregation the Rivington Street synagogue partially collapsed in , and was subsequently demolished. In addition, there is a major Hare Krishna temple and several Buddhist houses of worship. Chinese residents have also been moving into Lower East Side, and since the late 20th century, they have comprised a large immigrant group in the area.
The part of the neighborhood south of Delancey Street and west of Allen Street has, in large measure, become part of Chinatown. Grand Street is one of the major business and shopping streets of Chinatown. Also contained within the neighborhood are strips of lighting and restaurant supply shops on the Bowery. While the Lower East Side has been a place of successive immigrant populations, many American Jews relate to the neighborhood in a strong manner, much as Chinatown in San Francisco holds a special place in the imagination of Chinese Americans, and Astoria in the hearts of Greek Americans.
It was a center for the ancestors of many people in the metropolitan area, and it was written about and portrayed in fiction and films.
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In the late twentieth century, Jewish communities have worked to preserve a number of buildings associated with the Jewish immigrant community. The neighborhood has become home to numerous contemporary art galleries.
Taking an activist approach to art that grew out of The Real Estate Show the take over of an abandoned building by artists to open an outsider gallery only to have it chained closed by the police ABC No Rio kept its sense of activism , community, and outsiderness. The product of this open, expansive approach to art was a space for creating new works that did not have links to the art market place and that were able to explore new artistic possibilities.
Other outsider galleries sprung up throughout the Lower East Side and East Village—some at the height of the scene in the s, including the Ridge Street Gallery among others.