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Filming in the Lower East Side, Manhattan

The blocks are tenements of five and six storeys, and Delancey Street ends at the Williamsburg Bridge.

Tenement rooftops seen west from the Manhattan Bridge, washing hung on a line and a graffitied parapet in front, a man sitting out on the roof and the Financial District behind.

What Lower East Side looks like

Most of the neighborhood is tenements of five and six storeys with fire escapes on the front. Some of the first tenements in the city were built at , by the river, in 1833.

The grid from up to Houston Street was laid across James De Lancey's farm before the Revolution. and Orchard Street were named after him.

In 1967 the city leveled twenty acres on the south side of and moved out more than 1,800 largely Puerto Rican families on a promise of new apartments. The lots stayed as parking until broke ground in 2015.

West of there the old buildings are still standing, the synagogues among them. The one at 12 Eldridge Street opened in 1887 for Kahal Adath Jeshurun and was among the first in the United States built by Eastern European Jews. Its main sanctuary was sealed off in 1954 and the congregation moved down to the basement. Restoration finished in 2007, and a rose window by Kiki Smith and Deborah Gans went in above the ark in 2010.

South of and west of Allen Street the neighborhood has largely become part of Chinatown. Immigrants from Fuzhou settled around East Broadway from the 1980s. and have Chinese shopfronts most of the way to the water.

still has a pair of low brick houses at numbers 511 and 513, with dormer windows in the roof.

Films shot in Lower East Side

The Naked City ends with a chase through the Lower East Side and up onto the Williamsburg Bridge.

The Naked City, 1948

Delancey Street looking east on a clear afternoon, tenements and shopfronts on the left, a housing block on the right and the towers of the Williamsburg Bridge at the end of the roadway.

Jules Dassin shot almost all of The Naked City on New York streets in 1947. One shot near the end looks east along the south side of with the bridge ahead of it, and another looks back west from the bridge itself. Those blocks were leveled in 1967, so the film keeps a stretch of the neighborhood that is no longer there.

What Lower East Side can double for

Lower East Side can stand in for tenement New York, a market street that still works and New York at the foot of a bridge.

Areas like Lower East Side

the East VillageTwo Bridgesthe south side of Williamsburg

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Rowhouse and terrace streetsMarket streets

“a block of six storey tenements with fire escapes and a bridge at the end of the street”

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