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*’LOWER EAST SIDE’ JOURNALS*
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*ABBREVIATIONS* –>
“LES”
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(the lower east side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a neighborhood in the southeastern part of the ‘New York City’ borough of ‘Manhattan’, roughly located between…
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(*the ‘bowery’ + the ‘east river’*)
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(‘canal street’ + ‘houston street’)
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(traditionally an ‘immigrant working-class neighborhood’, it began ‘rapid gentrification’ in the ‘mid-2000s’, prompting ‘the national trust for historic preservation’ to place the neighborhood on their list of ‘america’s most endangered places’)
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*groan*
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(we get it old people…it was SO MUCH BETTER way back when)
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(yea, scorceses, i’d hve much rather lived in the ‘lower east side’ during your ‘gangs of new york’ era…when all those beloved ‘working-class irish immigrants’ were burning down black orphanages because they didn’t want to fight in a civil war)
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(but they had no problem coming here ‘en masse’)
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*SKETCHES*
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