The Lower East Side

Question 1

1600s - 1800s

Answer 1

Dutch settlers arrives (farmers)
Farmland and small settlements

Question 2

1840s-70s

Answer 2

Migration from Ireland and germany

Question 3

1880s

Answer 3

Jewish migration from Eastern Europe and russia

Question 4

1900s-30s

Answer 4

Development of garment industry
Slum clearance

Question 5

1950s-80s

Answer 5

Migration from Puerto Rico and china
Hippies and punks

Question 6

1980s

Answer 6

Migration from Bangladesh, India
Artists and students

Question 7

Social inequality historically

Answer 7

Historically densely populated, low income, culturally diverse

Question 8

Modern social inequalities

Answer 8

Increasing inequality with gentrification
Income disparities, luxury houses/homelessness

Question 9

Historical lived experience

Answer 9

Safe place (escaping persecution)
Community
Poor living conditions/working conditions

Question 10

1950s-80s lived experience

Answer 10

Crime, poverty, violence
Community

Question 11

1990s

Answer 11

Vibrant historic neighbourhoods for tourists
Loss of diversity
Displacement of community
Rent increased

Question 12

Continuity character of place

Answer 12

Built environment (synagogues)
Street sellers

Question 13

Change character of place

Answer 13

Land use for building
Population
Economy

Question 14

Economic change

Answer 14

17 cent. Agriculture
20 cent. Garment industry, labourers, carpenters
Late 20 cent 21st. Creative industry, art, cultural media

Question 15

Qualitative representation of LES

Answer 15

Bowery boys video
Miguel pinero poem
Photos from tenement museum
(Sense of place/ lived experience)

Question 16

Quantitative representations of LES

Answer 16

Land use maps
Census data
(Objective data on social inequality)