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| • | The Lower East Side is a neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is situated alongside the East River from about the Manhattan Bridge up to 14th Street, and including the Stuyvesant Town housing development. On the west it is roughly bounded by Broadway. Parts of it are also referred to as "Loisaida," a blurring together that derives from a Latino pronunication of the three-word name.
One of the oldest neighborhoods of the city, the Lower East Side has long been known as a lower-class, working neighborhood and often as an outright slum. The Lower East Side once was, and in a few parts still is, a center for Eastern European Jewish immigrant culture. More recently, it has been settled by immigrants from Latin America and elsewhere. Particularly in the northern part of the neighborhood, which is also known as the East Village, a preexisting population of Poles and Ukrainians has been significantly replenished with newer immigrants, and the arrival of large numbers of Japanese people over the last fifteen years or so has led to the proliferation of sushi bars and Japanese specialty food markets. There is also a notable population of Bangladeshis and other immigrants from Muslim countries, many of whom are congregants of the Madina Masjid (Mosque), located on First Avenue and 11th Street. This diverse neighborhood also contains many synagogues (though because most of the practicing Jews who used to live in the neighborhood have moved away or died, only a few are functioning) and a great variety of churches, both in terms of denomination and ethnic and linguistic makeup. In addition, there is a major Hare Krishna temple and Buddhist houses of worship.
in the East Village]]The part of the neighborhood south of Delancey Street and west of Allen Street has in large measure become part of [wikipedia: lower east side, manhattan]
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