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Once characterized by tenements and pushcarts, Orchard
Street gained its flavor more than 200 years ago, as
families squeezed into cramped buildings that filled
lower Manhattan. Industrious immigrants became the Lower
East Side's first business owners.
Selling their wares from potato sacks to thousands of
local shoppers, successful business owners soon expanded
their inventory and bought pushcarts - and eventually
storefronts to make Orchard Street one of the busiest
commercial districts in the world and the neighborhood a
cultural mecca.
Over a century after
hardworking immigrant families first crowded the
tenements of Orchard Street, visitors from around the
world are rediscovering the historic neighborhood and
finding new surprises -- and all along absorbing the
amazing history which characterizes the area.
Come explore the
Historic Lower East Side. Like thousands of immigrants
before you, you may never want to leave. |
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ABC No Rio
156 Rivington St.
212.254.3697
www.abcnorio.org
Founded in 1980, ABC No Rio is an internationally-known, collectively-run
center for art and activism. Regular features include fine art exhibitions,
poetry readings, film & video screenings. The weekly hard core/punk and
experimental/improvisational music bookings are neighborhood faves.
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Angel Orensanz
Foundation for the Arts
172 Norfolk St.
212.529.7194
www.orensanz.org
Housed inside the oldest synagogue building in NYC, the Angel Orensanz
Foundation hosts art & photography exhibitions, performances, and various
fashion, film and music events.
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Artists Alliance Inc.
107 Suffolk St.
212.420.9202
www.artistsai.org
Artists Alliance/Alianza de Artistas Inc. (AAI) is a grass roots not-for-profit
arts organization based in the CSV Cultural Center at 107 Suffolk Street
on New York City's Lower East Side. It is composed of more that 40 artists
from a broad spectrum of national backgrounds, working in a wide variety
of different media - reflecting the diversity of this vibrant and historically
significant multicultural neighborhood. Visit our website for more information
about our artists, programs and services |
Clemente Soto
Velez
107 Suffolk St.
212.260.4080
www.el.net/csv
Named after the beloved Puerto Rican poet, this multicultural art center
showcases theatre, music, art and film by artists from all over the world.
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HSS - Abrons Arts
Center
466 Grand St.
212.598.0400
www.henrystreet.org
Housed within the historic Henry Street Settlement, the Abrons Arts Center
is home to the national historic landmark Harry De Jur Playhouse and an
outdoor sculpture garden, and hosts a range of art exhibits, dance and
musical performances, and theatre productions.
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