Lower East Side

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The latest neighborhood to receive the "Soho" treatment, it is hard to believe that this part of Manhattan once housed some of the city's worst slums. At times a center for various different immigrant populations, remains of those distinct cultures exist in the form of Hester Street's Eastern European Jewish shops, restaurants and schools, Japaneese restuarants and specialty markets, and mosques to serve the growing Muslim population. Counterculture movements like anarchists and punk rockers also made a home there. Today, rents are rising and yuppies have arrived. The historic Orchard Street Shopping District operates among hip bars and nightclubs. The area is known for live music and the famous Katz's Deli on Houston Street.

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