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Lower East Side — Tenements and Synagogues · 12 stops
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Lower East Side — Tenements and Synagogues

Midtown, New York

12 stops · ~16 min

🚶 Walking tour📍 GPS guided⤓ Audio works offline

About 55 min walk · 12 stories · Free

Start: Eldridge Street Synagogue — — Directions
The walk starts at Eldridge Street Synagogue. Please use headphones and keep audio private.
Location accessAsked on start

Before you start

  1. Put your headphones in.
  2. Start anywhere in the park. For the full route, begin at Eldridge Street Synagogue. Directions
  3. Press Start, then just walk. Each story plays when you reach it.

Twelve stories from the Eldridge Street Synagogue to Yonah Schimmel — the Forward Building, Henry Street Settlement, Essex Market, 97 Orchard Street and Katz's.

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Stops
1
Eldridge Street Synagogue
A cathedral for the immigrant poor
2
Jarmulowsky Bank Building
The immigrant banker's skyscraper
3
The Forward Building
A socialist newspaper's ten-storey tower
4
Seward Park
America's first permanent city playground
5
Seward Park Library and the Educational Alliance
Two buildings that taught a neighborhood
6
Henry Street Settlement
Where Lillian Wald invented public health nursing
7
Bialystoker Synagogue
A Federal-era church of Manhattan stone
8
Essex Market
Where the pushcarts were moved indoors
9
The Tenement at 97 Orchard Street
A building sealed for fifty years
10
Katz's Delicatessen
Pastrami, paper tickets, and Harry and Sally
11
Russ & Daughters
The shop that put daughters on the sign
12
Yonah Schimmel Knish Bakery
A knish shop from the pushcart era
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Map & route

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How this tour works
Autoplay works while this page is open. Bring a charger — GPS and audio use battery over a long tour.
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