This is one of my favorite videos of yours because it is personal to me. When my grandfather first arrived from Italy in the 1940s, he lived in one of these tenements on Brooke street. He eventually moved to Brooklyn, but first started his life in America right in the Lower East Side. Thanks for the excellent explanation of this fascinating NYC neighborhood!
wow thats great. Yes the Lower East Side fascinates me because it being the most densely populated on earth at the time, and the home to early immigrants. That's amazing that your grandfather lived right on Broome street. What a piece of a real American story you have in your family heritage!
My father had a bar on Forsyth and Delancey st. what a great childhood we grew up on Broome and Mott streets!Back when I was growing up it was way different there was The Bowery which was a street that was basically all flop houses and men and women who basically were Destitute and most like will die on that street and most would be homeless and have no family that were still in there life it was very sad!
Jackie I don't know if you know the following fact. But, the actor from Australia Heath Ledger that played the Joker in the movie dled on Broome Street near where you lived. Google it if you don't believe me.
A few of those still standing tenement buildings from the 1800's were originally middle-class dwellings that were subdivided into smaller low rent overcrowded apartments. By the of end of the 20th century, these same buildings were renovated and went from 40 units to just one unit per floor with very upscale tenants and matching rent prices. And coming full circle in the 21st century, those upscale apartments have been subdivided again into 80 units with hipsters and aspiring artists paying enormous rent for tiny spaces.
ah the passage of time and the cycle of development in cities is fascinating. Park Slope is another interesting version of this, with it being quite dangerous in the 1970s-1980s. Red Hook too...
Thanks again for the great tour. The Lower East Side really looks like a unique place that I want to see. The history is explained very well, and I like how you connected it to today. Please make more!
I like much the Bowery because i find it rather interesting it has so much history and having had been a place of much immigration which thrills me my maternal grandmother once lived there during the 1950s and ever since I've been fascinated by the area
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@@peterarizmendi4995 ok I got you. I grew up a few blocks away on Eldridge. But, I used to hang around Clinton and Delancey and bought records at Bate record shop. I remember my favorite restaurant on Clinton Street called El Castillo. It's weird because they had a Spanish name on the business but were Chinese. Their Ribs were the best ribs I've ever eaten in my life perfectly made in the oven and very soft on top of those ribs being huge like the Fred Flintstone ribs.🤣🤣🤣
AWESONE video tour of an AMAZING neighborhood!!! The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is definitely worth the visit...sooo interesting...DO NOT MISS IT. I have visited it several times! Be sure to have lunch at Katz's... A true New York City Iconic place
I grew up in that exact neighborhood in the 70s. I lived on Eldridge Street and Broome. The grocery store at the corner was there in the 70s. Everything is the same except for the buildings on the north side between Forsythe and Eldridge on Broome Street. That used to be an empty dirt yard where we played marbles and skelly top and wiffle ball. Whenever you have any question about a store, building or area in that neighborhood feel free to just ask me by hitting the reply button on this comment. I could verify anything for you including what celebrities lived around there and info all the way up to Williamsburg Bridge and into Little Italy where I was baptised. One more thing, at that corner where the Tenement Museum is on Delancey Street is the exact spot where a sandwich restaurant called Blimpies used to be. That is where I worked my first job as a kid. Got paid 75 dollars a week. Cheers.
Thank you for such a wonderful and authentic story about the Lower East Side. What an interesting and amazing neighborhood to be from, especially in the glory days of the 70s. Also, thank you for inviting people to ask questions about the history from a first hand account.
@@katale315maharet3 Oh my GOD !!!!!!!!! Of course I remember the Delancey theater !!! It was on Delancey between Eldridge Street and Allen Street. Did you go to school around there ? If yes, what elementary school did you go to ? I ask because I lived across the street from that movie theater.
@___David___Savian Hi! I went to P.S.142, the round school. I first went to the ancient PS4, on Pitt St. Then to JHS 56. You? There were 2 movie theaters on Delancey. One close to Essex, the other by where you described.😊
I am a life long 2nd generation amaerican in the lower east side... seriously people HAVE to live here for lower rent prices so stop flooding our hood with your expensive stuff and squeezing us out!!!! Thank you very much .. a life long LESer
I agree. It's bad when the original residents are pushed out due to exorbitant rent prices. The story of NYC it seems annoyingly in the past couple decades. I like the gritty New York before the gentrifiers thought it was cool.
It's too late Chasidy. The rents are already sky high on the LES. Especially on streets like Rivington, Ludlow and Forsythe. From Delancey to Houston the rents are out of control. When I grew up around there my parents only paid 145 dollars a month. 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Compliments & Cheers, 13:38 sez it all. My grandparents lived in "Alphabet City" on 9th Street @ Avenue C just before WW1. Grandpa's favorite watering hole was McSorely's saloon on St. Marks Place (aka 8th Street) which claims to have had Abe Lincoln as a customer in 1860 when he was campaigning to be POTUS. There was a long time house rule of no girls allowed for decades.
I wanted to share that Katz Deli ships anywhere in the USA. I live in the Blue Ridge Mountains and had their delicious food delivered to my doorstep. ❤
Thanks for this great video. I booked my stays in lower east side for my first ever nyc trip before knowing much about lower east side. How I’ve been trying to give myself crush course about what happened to this very interesting neighbourhood, i totally fall in love with it. I feel lots of love and respect from this video and it’s very informative. Tenement museum is also I’m my itinerary. Love to see you mentioned if people like your video, they will enjoy the museum.
Glad it was helpful! and thanks for watching. The LES is one of the most interesting and historic neighborhoods in NYC. Let me know if you have any questions at all!
When the tenements started to loose popularity another form housing that was created was NYCHA (New York City Housing Authority). Throughout its time it has provided housing to many low income families for years but it was around the 90's that things started to crumble. The housing authority was sued on grounds for discrimination and policies had to change then there was also an issue where the government wasn't funding it as much which caused serious delays in getting repairs done. Over the years the buildings began to fall apart and funding would get mismanaged. As of recently it is estimated the housing authority would need I believe around 70 billion something in order to modernize the entire system but like the mta its leaves as quick as it comes. As an alternative many of the buildings would get put under private management via the RAD-PACT. This will take units or buildings under section 9 and turn them into section 8 so that funding can open up to fund repairs. There's currently a big issue going on with the Chelsea elliott houses because they're going to tear it down and create new buildings but many fear that some of the residents are going to be displaced. A similar issue like this happened with Cabrini Green in Chicago
Very interesting. Housing affordability and availability has always been an issue in NYC even until today. Actually, the city has been considered under a housing crisis since the 1970s- this is why NYC is so famous for its rent control and rent stabilization laws. You can actually inherit an apartment, and some rentals are frozen- but thats very little about 2% of housing. Many, however, are rent stabilized meaning that the landlord is only allowed to raise the rent a certain small percentage every year. Its to battle gentrification and pushing people out of their homes.
@@ProjectGaiaTravelexcept when they sense that prospective tenant is clueless about rent stabilization and they jack the rents up. Most get away with it too!
Born in the 80s, I lived 19 years in the lower east side. Such a beautiful vibrant melting pot of Dominican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Chinese and African American cultures. Even looking back to gang violence from Avenue D Terrors to DDP (Dominicans Don’t Play) to the Dragons creeping in from Chinatown- it was the epitome of immigrant living. So thankful for my years there and I miss my childhood, especially knowing that my kids will never know the life I knew as a young New Yorker. Daily playing basketball until late night at J.H.S 25 to football in the snow at PS 142. Our parents did the best they could and it was more than we could ask for! Amazing memories. No longer in NYC but even after living in multiple states, I Love my L.E.S. Forever!
Change the music! paly some Bach or some Jazz...not the noisy stuff...music for walking.. not jumping! All in all you're cool. I lived in NYC for 25 years...now I am meandering faraway...
Interesting tour, but I think that the neighborhood could be gentrifying itself out of its history. I used to live a little uptown in the East Village and shopped down there instead of the more expensive midtown department stores. I understand that most of the Orchard Street shops where you could haggle the prices are now gone. I liked the edginess of the neighborhood that kept it from being overrun with tourists. I remember Katz's being slightly higher priced because of the enormity of their sandwiches. Now, $30 for a corned beef sandwich?! That's definitely a tourist gouger. This is another example of how neighborhoods in NYC are losing their ethnic flavor thanks to overpriced rents. People pushed out of the Lower East Side have referred to this as the goyification of the neighborhood. Gone are the signs in Yiddish and old businesses, such as Gus' Pickle Factory. The movie, CROSSING DELANCEY, which takes place in the 1980s now feels like it was in the 1880s. I'm betting in a few years the yuppies will insist that the graffiti will be removed and the last vestiges of history swept away. Cute cafés and boutiques can be found in cities like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Buffalo, etc. There's a very good deli in Youngstown with Katz quality sandwiches and ambiance at a fraction of the price.
Yes this is actually one of the cheaper areas of Manhattan because of the old nature of the housing stock. San Francisco, I believe, often beats NYC in rental prices.
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A lot of people there aren’t true New Yorkers and as time goes on language kinda changes I guess. If you go to the Bronx or queens where more true New Yorkers love you will hear it
The only people that still have a New York accent are the Italians, while Puerto Ricans have a specific NY accent still spoken buy actress Rosie Perez on TV interviews. But the old New York accent can still be found in Long Island. That's because New Yorkers moved there before New York City became a melting pot of different races and Long Islanders remind isolated in kind of a cocoon all this time and never changed the accent. Rosie O'Donnell once interviewed Mariah Carey on her show and they both started speaking with that Long Island accent. They were both from Huntington, Long Island which is part of the state of New York.
Used to cop dope all over LES,AND ALPHBET CITY,IN 70,80,90S,IT WAS A LOT DIFFERENT, REtired and live in Florida, went back couple yrs ago,a lot has changed,but you still better know what you doing,most people there aint from ny,ill just say it,they ruined it.
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I lived on St. Marks Place 45 years ago. Rent was $280/month. And the area was full of soul and lively culture. Before Yuppies and gentrification.
Yes when the city was a hell of a lot more interesting. Thanks for adding your experience and for watching.
This is one of my favorite videos of yours because it is personal to me. When my grandfather first arrived from Italy in the 1940s, he lived in one of these tenements on Brooke street. He eventually moved to Brooklyn, but first started his life in America right in the Lower East Side. Thanks for the excellent explanation of this fascinating NYC neighborhood!
wow thats great. Yes the Lower East Side fascinates me because it being the most densely populated on earth at the time, and the home to early immigrants. That's amazing that your grandfather lived right on Broome street. What a piece of a real American story you have in your family heritage!
Did you mean Broome st?
It looks like they fixed it up ,back in the 70's it was totally in destruction
Thank you for a great video. Because of you, I'm talking with someone who knows everything I know. We remember the nitty, gritty L.E.S.
My father had a bar on Forsyth and Delancey st. what a great childhood we grew up on Broome and Mott streets!Back when I was growing up it was way different there was The Bowery which was a street that was basically all flop houses and men and women who basically were Destitute and most like will die on that street and most would be homeless and have no family that were still in there life it was very sad!
Jackie I don't know if you know the following fact. But, the actor from Australia Heath Ledger that played the Joker in the movie dled on Broome Street near where you lived. Google it if you don't believe me.
A few of those still standing tenement buildings from the 1800's were originally middle-class dwellings that were subdivided into smaller low rent overcrowded apartments.
By the of end of the 20th century, these same buildings were renovated and went from 40 units to just one unit per floor with very upscale tenants and matching rent prices.
And coming full circle in the 21st century, those upscale apartments have been subdivided again into 80 units with hipsters and aspiring artists paying enormous rent for tiny spaces.
ah the passage of time and the cycle of development in cities is fascinating. Park Slope is another interesting version of this, with it being quite dangerous in the 1970s-1980s. Red Hook too...
Thanks again for the great tour. The Lower East Side really looks like a unique place that I want to see. The history is explained very well, and I like how you connected it to today. Please make more!
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I like much the Bowery because i find it rather interesting it has so much history and having had been a place of much immigration which thrills me my maternal grandmother once lived there during the 1950s and ever since I've been fascinated by the area
Yes I love the Bowery too, a neighborhood filled with so much history. Thanks for watching.
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This was great! Thank you. I was born and raised on the Lower East. And I’ve learned something new about the immigrants.
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Hi. What street did you grow up in ? I grew up around there too.
@@___David___Savian I grew up in Baruch Houses.
@@peterarizmendi4995 ok I got you. I grew up a few blocks away on Eldridge. But, I used to hang around Clinton and Delancey and bought records at Bate record shop. I remember my favorite restaurant on Clinton Street called El Castillo. It's weird because they had a Spanish name on the business but were Chinese. Their Ribs were the best ribs I've ever eaten in my life perfectly made in the oven and very soft on top of those ribs being huge like the Fred Flintstone ribs.🤣🤣🤣
Love these NYC vids👍
he has some of the coolest travel videos ive seen for New York and goes to lots of other places too.
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Blessings my brother love this great information thank for this great history I am going to share your channel my fam
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Stayed on the lower east side on our first visit to New York last year
It was fantastic ❤
It is definitely a very interesting, unique, and historical area to stay in when visiting New York. Thanks for watching!
AWESONE video tour of an AMAZING neighborhood!!! The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is definitely worth the visit...sooo interesting...DO NOT MISS IT. I have visited it several times! Be sure to have lunch at Katz's... A true New York City Iconic place
For sure I'm glad you've enjoyed the video tour and exploring one of NYC's most historical and interesting neighborhood. Thanks for watching.
I grew up in that exact neighborhood in the 70s. I lived on Eldridge Street and Broome. The grocery store at the corner was there in the 70s. Everything is the same except for the buildings on the north side between Forsythe and Eldridge on Broome Street. That used to be an empty dirt yard where we played marbles and skelly top and wiffle ball. Whenever you have any question about a store, building or area in that neighborhood feel free to just ask me by hitting the reply button on this comment. I could verify anything for you including what celebrities lived around there and info all the way up to Williamsburg Bridge and into Little Italy where I was baptised. One more thing, at that corner where the Tenement Museum is on Delancey Street is the exact spot where a sandwich restaurant called Blimpies used to be. That is where I worked my first job as a kid. Got paid 75 dollars a week. Cheers.
Thank you for such a wonderful and authentic story about the Lower East Side. What an interesting and amazing neighborhood to be from, especially in the glory days of the 70s. Also, thank you for inviting people to ask questions about the history from a first hand account.
Do you remember the Bar on Forsyth just before Delancey? Also all the Pimps and Prostitutes?
I remember Buster Brown's shoe store. Lots of great stores on Clinton Street. Remember the movie theater on Delancey? I saw The Devil's Rain there😂
@@katale315maharet3 Oh my GOD !!!!!!!!! Of course I remember the Delancey theater !!! It was on Delancey between Eldridge Street and Allen Street. Did you go to school around there ? If yes, what elementary school did you go to ? I ask because I lived across the street from that movie theater.
@___David___Savian Hi! I went to P.S.142, the round school. I first went to the ancient PS4, on Pitt St. Then to JHS 56. You? There were 2 movie theaters on Delancey. One close to Essex, the other by where you described.😊
Great video, thank you for sharing.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! and thanks for watching! Let me know if you have any question or want any suggestions in the area.
Great tour!! Miss Sam the Delancey pickle guy ...
I am a life long 2nd generation amaerican in the lower east side... seriously people HAVE to live here for lower rent prices so stop flooding our hood with your expensive stuff and squeezing us out!!!! Thank you very much .. a life long LESer
I agree. It's bad when the original residents are pushed out due to exorbitant rent prices. The story of NYC it seems annoyingly in the past couple decades. I like the gritty New York before the gentrifiers thought it was cool.
It's too late Chasidy. The rents are already sky high on the LES. Especially on streets like Rivington, Ludlow and Forsythe. From Delancey to Houston the rents are out of control. When I grew up around there my parents only paid 145 dollars a month. 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thx for sharing.
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The Lower East side is likw The Tenderlion in San Fransico.
Compliments & Cheers, 13:38 sez it all. My grandparents lived in "Alphabet City" on 9th Street @ Avenue C just before WW1. Grandpa's
favorite watering hole was McSorely's saloon on St. Marks Place (aka 8th Street) which claims to have had Abe Lincoln as a customer in 1860 when he was campaigning to be POTUS. There was a long time house rule of no girls allowed for decades.
I thought McSorelys was on 6th street?
I wanted to share that Katz Deli ships anywhere in the USA. I live in the Blue Ridge Mountains and had their delicious food delivered to my doorstep. ❤
Thanks for sharing, its great that you can get Katz anywhere.
Way overpriced!
Thanks for this great video. I booked my stays in lower east side for my first ever nyc trip before knowing much about lower east side. How I’ve been trying to give myself crush course about what happened to this very interesting neighbourhood, i totally fall in love with it. I feel lots of love and respect from this video and it’s very informative. Tenement museum is also I’m my itinerary. Love to see you mentioned if people like your video, they will enjoy the museum.
Glad it was helpful! and thanks for watching. The LES is one of the most interesting and historic neighborhoods in NYC. Let me know if you have any questions at all!
When the tenements started to loose popularity another form housing that was created was NYCHA (New York City Housing Authority). Throughout its time it has provided housing to many low income families for years but it was around the 90's that things started to crumble.
The housing authority was sued on grounds for discrimination and policies had to change then there was also an issue where the government wasn't funding it as much which caused serious delays in getting repairs done.
Over the years the buildings began to fall apart and funding would get mismanaged. As of recently it is estimated the housing authority would need I believe around 70 billion something in order to modernize the entire system but like the mta its leaves as quick as it comes.
As an alternative many of the buildings would get put under private management via the RAD-PACT. This will take units or buildings under section 9 and turn them into section 8 so that funding can open up to fund repairs.
There's currently a big issue going on with the Chelsea elliott houses because they're going to tear it down and create new buildings but many fear that some of the residents are going to be displaced.
A similar issue like this happened with Cabrini Green in Chicago
Very interesting. Housing affordability and availability has always been an issue in NYC even until today. Actually, the city has been considered under a housing crisis since the 1970s- this is why NYC is so famous for its rent control and rent stabilization laws. You can actually inherit an apartment, and some rentals are frozen- but thats very little about 2% of housing. Many, however, are rent stabilized meaning that the landlord is only allowed to raise the rent a certain small percentage every year. Its to battle gentrification and pushing people out of their homes.
@@ProjectGaiaTravelexcept when they sense that prospective tenant is clueless about rent stabilization and they jack the rents up. Most get away with it too!
Why do you not mention that Katz’s is a Jewish deli? It’s not a damn sandwich shop.
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Hey man glad to have you!
Born in the 80s, I lived 19 years in the lower east side. Such a beautiful vibrant melting pot of Dominican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Chinese and African American cultures. Even looking back to gang violence from Avenue D Terrors to DDP (Dominicans Don’t Play) to the Dragons creeping in from Chinatown- it was the epitome of immigrant living. So thankful for my years there and I miss my childhood, especially knowing that my kids will never know the life I knew as a young New Yorker. Daily playing basketball until late night at J.H.S 25 to football in the snow at PS 142. Our parents did the best they could and it was more than we could ask for! Amazing memories. No longer in NYC but even after living in multiple states, I Love my L.E.S. Forever!
Change the music! paly some Bach or some Jazz...not the noisy stuff...music for walking.. not jumping! All in all you're cool. I lived in NYC for 25 years...now I am meandering faraway...
Interesting tour, but I think that the neighborhood could be gentrifying itself out of its history. I used to live a little uptown in the East Village and shopped down there instead of the more expensive midtown department stores. I understand that most of the Orchard Street shops where you could haggle the prices are now gone. I liked the edginess of the neighborhood that kept it from being overrun with tourists. I remember Katz's being slightly higher priced because of the enormity of their sandwiches. Now, $30 for a corned beef sandwich?! That's definitely a tourist gouger. This is another example of how neighborhoods in NYC are losing their ethnic flavor thanks to overpriced rents. People pushed out of the Lower East Side have referred to this as the goyification of the neighborhood. Gone are the signs in Yiddish and old businesses, such as Gus' Pickle Factory. The movie, CROSSING DELANCEY, which takes place in the 1980s now feels like it was in the 1880s. I'm betting in a few years the yuppies will insist that the graffiti will be removed and the last vestiges of history swept away. Cute cafés and boutiques can be found in cities like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Buffalo, etc. There's a very good deli in Youngstown with Katz quality sandwiches and ambiance at a fraction of the price.
1900 to 3000 is cheap compared to where I live in the peninsula of the Bay Area…
Yes this is actually one of the cheaper areas of Manhattan because of the old nature of the housing stock. San Francisco, I believe, often beats NYC in rental prices.
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THE LOWER EAST SIDE IS MORE THAN JUST THE MARKETS!
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Born And Raised On The LES By Way Of The Alfred E Smith Projects !!!
Why doesn't anybody from New York have a New York accent? 🤔
A lot of people there aren’t true New Yorkers and as time goes on language kinda changes I guess. If you go to the Bronx or queens where more true New Yorkers love you will hear it
Too many different nationalitys❤
The only people that still have a New York accent are the Italians, while Puerto Ricans have a specific NY accent still spoken buy actress Rosie Perez on TV interviews. But the old New York accent can still be found in Long Island. That's because New Yorkers moved there before New York City became a melting pot of different races and Long Islanders remind isolated in kind of a cocoon all this time and never changed the accent. Rosie O'Donnell once interviewed Mariah Carey on her show and they both started speaking with that Long Island accent. They were both from Huntington, Long Island which is part of the state of New York.
Used to cop dope all over LES,AND ALPHBET CITY,IN 70,80,90S,IT WAS A LOT DIFFERENT, REtired and live in Florida, went back couple yrs ago,a lot has changed,but you still better know what you doing,most people there aint from ny,ill just say it,they ruined it.
Yes it is mostly young professionals from out of state. Much like most of Manhattan.
NONE OF THESE EVER VISIT THE TENEMENTS ALONG THE EAST RIVER; I'M DISTURBED ABOUT THIS FACT! TRY GOING EAST ALONG COLOMBIA STREET!
This video might have been good but for the loud annoying music between you narrating.
In the early 70's LES was nothing but junkies!
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you obviously don't live here. There are murders daily here on the LES. NON STOP.
I Love The LES and iam from the South Bronx...
Yea it is a fantastic neighborhood with a lot of things to do and see and is filled with New York history.
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