The Lower East Side and Chinatown
The city of immigrants: the African Burial Ground, the old Five Points, Doyers Street, Little Italy, the Eldridge Street Synagogue and a tenement where families from dozens of countries lived.
10 places
African Burial Ground
Thousands of Africans of colonial New York lie here, and the city forgot them for almost two hundred years
Church of the Transfiguration
An 1801 church that has served Lutherans, the Irish, Italians and Chinese in turn
Columbus Park, the Former Five Points
On the site of New York’s worst slum, a reporter with a camera won a park for the poor
Doyers Street
Two hundred feet with a bend that saw Chinese opera, tong wars and a speech by Sun Yat-sen
Eldridge Street Synagogue
The first great synagogue built in America by immigrants from Eastern Europe
First Shearith Israel Graveyard
One of the oldest cemeteries in Manhattan, left by the first Jewish congregation in North America
Forward Building
Home of the most widely read Yiddish newspaper, which taught immigrants how to live in America
Mulberry Street and Little Italy
The street where Neapolitans built their own Naples and still celebrate San Gennaro every September
St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral
New York’s first Catholic cathedral, more than half a century older than the famous one on Fifth Avenue
Tenement Museum on Orchard Street
A tenement where thousands of immigrants lived, and whose apartments then stayed sealed for more than half a century