Manhattan
Lower East Side
50 min9 stops2.1 miHISTORIC
Tenements, pickle barrels, and a hundred years of arrivals — the neighborhood that taught New York how to be New York.
The route
1.Tenement Museum
97 Orchard Street held 7,000 people over 70 years. The walls still show it.
2.Essex Market
A century-old market that moved across the street and kept its soul.
3.Bialystoker Synagogue
A former church with a hidden door from the Underground Railroad.
4.Seward Park
The first municipal playground in the country.
5.East Broadway
The spine of three different immigrant neighborhoods, layered on top of each other.
6.Doyers Street
The 'Bloody Angle' — now the most photogenic bend downtown.
7.Columbus Park
Mornings here sound like erhu practice and mahjong tiles.
8.Eldridge Street Synagogue
A stained-glass rose window you'd never guess from the sidewalk.
9.Pickle Guys
End at the last full-sour barrel shop on the old Pickle District block.