Talk:Lower East Side, Manhattan
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[edit] Current borders
Considering that Houston St is now more commonly considered to be the northern boundary of the LES, not just by realtors, but also by the local media, I think it should be noted that the 14th St/Broadway borders are, at beast, disputed, and the Houston/Bowery borders are more widely recognized. I realize that would require some heavy rewriting since much of the article covers areas above Houston Street, but right now, this article is more about East Village than about the current LES. Ytny
[edit] Messy and/or irrelevant pieces of information
Two pieces of text I have changed:
- "Alphabet City around Tompkins Square Park was once known as Little Germany."
I'm not sure why that's relevant here. I've removed it. If it's relevant, please do put it back, but be sure to specify it's relevance to LES in the article! And the second piece:
- "Chinatown borders the Lower East Side on the south and the west up to roughly Broome Street, NoLIta on the east from Broome Street to East Houston Street, and the East Village on the north."
Frankly, this piece reads like a big mess of street names, neighborhoods and cardinal directions, and I'm not sure which parts of it are relevant for the Lower East Side. I've changed it. RagingR2 01:23, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "not really famous for it's subway convenience"?
I removed the following sentence since it does not reflect the facts, is not informative, and unencyclopedic in style: "The Lower East Side, just as the East Village, is not really famous for it's subway convenience so many residents take the bus to the subway."
Obviously no neighborhood is actually "really famous" for "it's (sic) subway convenience", and LES is not particularly noteworthy for being inconvenient either, with five subway stations within its boundaries. The eastern end of the neighborhood isn't well served, but that pretty much goes for the entire East Side and "many residents take the bus to the subway" can describe any neighborhood in New York City. Ytny 02:53, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sheldon Silver
I have removed this from the Immigrant Neighborhood section as it appears to be a non-sequitur, a random mention of Sheldon Silver in a place where there doesn't need to be a mention of Sheldon Silver, and also not particularly correct:
- Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the New York State Assembly, may tell people that he lives between Madison and Fifth, but he really means Madison and Fifth Streets, as he resides on the Lower East Side.
Apart from the not-very-relevant location of Mr. Silver's residence on the Lower East Side, Fifth Street and Madison are nowhere near each other, which makes the joke a bit broad. - Corporal Tunnel 14:49, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
