Lower East Side Flashcards
(32 cards)
Location
North east coast of the USA
North of china town, east of little Italy
Flows of people
Dutch settlers, Irish and German migrants
Jewish migration from Europe
Flows of money
Factories, gentrification
Flows of resources
Garment factories
Economic changes
Farming, then small settlements
Tenements were then built
Then garment factories, then slum clearance
Then gentrification, restaurants and bars
Changes to natural and built environment
Lower east side used to be farmland, changed to houses and built environment
Lots of residential areas
How useful are cartographic maps?
Maps can show how demand changed building economically
Social change shown through increased housing, migrants
Area becomes more congested and busy
Bowery boys video, what has changed?
Immigrants brought in lots of culture
Increased hotels and apartments
Some shops have never moved
How useful was the Bowery boys video in learning about changes?
Showed the variety of cultures
Experiences of locals
Constant flow of Immigrants area keeps changing
Why did the population change between 1840s and 70s
German refugees, aftermath of German revolution
Why has the area been very Jewish?
Majority of Eastern European Jews settled in LES
Due to economic benefits (low skilled work), affordable housing
How did Jewish immigrants transform the environment
Tenement housing, densely packed lacking sanitation
Synagogues
Garment factories
Conditions of garment factories
Long hours, unsafe, repetitive, exploitative
How did slum clearance in 1930s change LES
improved living conditions, reduced overcrowding
However displaced low income residents
How did population change from 1950-60s
Decline in Jewish population
Increase in Puerto Rican and African American immigrants
Gentrification
Forward building
Built in 1912 home of Jewish newspaper
Became condos in 2006
Inside is transformed while outside looks the same
Jarmulowsky bank
Bank closed in early 1900’s due to corruption
Now a hotel and bar
Hotel displays history of the bank
Documentary ‘an endangered place’
Economic changes- more people moving, older shops being changed
Social inequalities- richer people moving in making it hard for older residents to
Why were students attracted to LES
area with many different cultures
How did LES physical landscape change due to newcomers
Construction of luxury apartments, trendy boutiques
Impact on low income Hispanic residents
Displaced due to prices being too high
Historical lived experience
Densely packed
Tenements and factories
Modern lived experience
Rising costs
Sense of community
Thriving art scene
Main economic activity nowadays
Science/tech
Business and management
Art
Cultural media and entertainment
