The Definitive Guide to the Lower East Side

Escape there to: Discover the latest speakeasy or local emerging designer while rubbing shoulders with a mix of fraternity bros and downtown hipsters. Check out the pop-up galleries on Orchard Street, peppered among the remaining retail merchants in the bargain district, or stay late and visit a comedy club or live gig. 

Stay: Hotel Indigo, The Ludlow Hotel, Sixty LES, Hotel on Rivington, PUBLIC Hotel, Sister City, CitizenM New York Bowery.

Drink: Bar Goto, Dirty French, Copper & Oak, Kind Regards, Nitecap, Leave Rochelle Out of It, Banzarbar, Attaboy, The Flower Shop, Fig. 19, Reception Bar, Ray’s, The Late Late.

Schmooze: Ludlow House, Kind Regards, Fig. 19, Max Fish, Arlene’s Grocery.

Shop: The Rising States, Reformation, Assembly New York, Frankie Shop, Top Hat, Maryam Nassir Zadeh.

Explore: The Tenement Museum, Katz’s Delicatessen, Russ & Daughters, the gourmet finds on Clinton Street, Orchard’s street summer markets on a Sunday, when the street is closet to cars.

Wander: From Chinatown through the LES and up to the East Village.

Wellness: Blair Nails – the top Japanese salon in the city, Y7 Yoga.

Safari Stop: Brave Hell Square – the area between East Houston, Allen, Essex, and Delancey Streets – at 11PM on a Saturday night to witness the reckless abandon of drunk college kids partying like it’s the end of the world.