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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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