Beyond the titles that we have published, we suggest going further with the following books about the Lower East Side!
Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World’s Most Notorious Slum
by Tyler Anbinder
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York Paperback
by Jacob A. Riis
Life on the Lower East Side: Photographs by Rebecca Lepkoff, 1937-1950
by Peter E. Dans, Suzanne Wasserman
Selling the Lower East Side: Culture, Real Estate, and Resistance in New York City Paperback
by Christopher Mele
The House on Henry Street: The Enduring Life of a Lower East Side Settlement
Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier
Resistance: A Radical Social and Political History of the Lower East Side
by Clayton Patterson
Little Italy (Images of America)
by Dr. Emelise Aleandri
American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods
by Bonnie Tsui
The Synagogues of New York’s Lower East Side: A Retrospective and Contemporary View
by Gerard R. Wolfe, Jo Renee Fine
Alphaville: 1988, Crime, Punishment, and the Battle for New York City’s Lower East Side
by Michael Codella, Bruce Bennett
Captured: A Film & Video History of the Lower East Side Paperback
by Abel Ferarra, Clayton Patterson
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