Named after philanthropist and mother of President Franklin Roosevelt, Sara Delano Roosevelt Park is the largest area of open space in the Lower East Side.

Katz's Delicatessen is one of New York's most well-known, if not best, Jewish delis. It opened in 1888 and continues serving customers to this day.

Russ and Daughters is an "appetizing" store. A New York phenomenon, these stores sold fish and dairy products, as opposed to a delicatessen, which sold meats. Russ and Daughters has been open in this location since 1920.

This synagogue opened in 1849 for the growing German Jewish immigrant community in the LES. Abandoned in 1974, Spanish sculptor Angel Orensanz purchased the property in 1986 and renovated and converted the building into a public arts foundation and event space.

The Hamilton Fish Park opened in 1900 and originally featured an impressive grand Beaux-Arts pavilion and gymnasium as its focal point. In the summer of 1936 the WPA opened the Hamilton Fish Pool.

The Clemente is a Puerto Rican/Latino cultural center named after Puerto Rican poet and activist Clemente Sote Velez. Housed in a former public school, its mission is to support and promote the development of the arts within the community and to increase recognition for Latino arts in the city and beyond.

At its completion, the Williamsburg Bridge was the largest suspension bridge in the world.

Completed in 1915, this was a theatre for the Henry Street Settlement. The local playhouse and experimental theatre went on to become an important venue in the foundation of modern American dramatic theater.

This building was originally the fieldstone Methodist Episcopal Church and was built in 1826. In 1907, Jewish immigrants from the town of Bialystoker in present-day Poland bought the building for their congregation. In 1988 the interior and facade of the synagogue were restored, and the synagogue continues to serve the jewish community today.

This Beaux-Arts gem, long-time home to the city’s Yiddish-language newspaper, was the first "skyscraper" on the LES... at ten stories, in 1912.

The Eldridge Street Synagogue is one of only two synagogues in New York city designated a National Historic Landmark. Rediscovered in the late 1970s in a state of severe disrepair, the building underwent a meticulous 20 year, $20 million restoration. It was rededicated as a museum in 2007.