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  Historical Sites • Cultural Venues • Galleries & Theatres		  


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.
 


 

y The University Settlement
 y The (former) Municipal Bath House
y Essex Street Market
 y Beth Hamedrash Hagadol
y The Lower East Side Tenement Museum
y Ridley's Department Store
y The Eldridge Street Synagogue
y Jarmulovsky's Bank Building
 y St. Teresa's Church
 y Sunshine Theater
y The Forward Building
 y The Educational Alliance
 y The Seward Park Library
 y Angel Orensanz Center
y Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue
 y Henry Street Settlement
 y HSS Abrons Arts Center
 y The Lower East Side Conservancy
 y St. Augustine's Episcopal Church
y St. Mary's Church
 


 

y ABC No Rio
 y Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts
y Artists Alliance Inc.
 y Clemente Soto Velez
 y Abrons Arts Center
 


 

Big Cat Gallery
154 Orchard St
212.982.6210

Artists Alliance/Cuchifritos Art Gallery
120 Essex St.
212.598.4124

Mark Miller Gallery
92 Orchard St.
212.253.9479

Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard St.
212.995.1774		  
NakedEye
192 Orchard St.
212.253.4935

Participant
95 Rivington St.
917.488.0185

The Reed Space
151 Orchard St
212.253.0588		  
To Make a Better Place
70 Orchard St.
212.228.2131

Transplant Gallery
139 Orchard St. 2nd Floor
212.5050.0994

Immigrants Theater Project
90 Orchard St.
212.431.0233

 

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