The Lower East Side and Chinatown in six hours

The route, stop by stop

1. 1
   Tenement Museum

   Guided tours of restored apartments at 97 Orchard Street, each furnished as a real immigrant family lived in it. Tours only, and they sell out: book ahead.

   75 min here Walk here →
2. 2
   Katz's Delicatessen

   Pastrami on rye since 1888. Hold on to the ticket you are handed at the door; you pay against it on the way out.

   45 min here Walk here →
3. 3
   Essex Market

   The neighbourhood's public market since 1940, in a new building across Delancey Street since 2019: cheese, spices, bakeries and Dominican and Puerto Rican food.

   30 min here Walk here →
4. 4
   Museum at Eldridge Street

   The first great synagogue built by Eastern European Jews in America, in 1887, restored after decades of decline, with a new stained-glass window of stars.

   30 min here Walk here →
5. 5
   Little Italy

   All that is left of Little Italy is a few blocks of Mulberry Street, its red-sauce restaurants, and Ferrara's bakery on Grand Street, open since 1892.

   30 min here Walk here →
6. 6
   Doyers Street

   The crooked lane off Mott Street at the heart of old Chinatown. Nom Wah Tea Parlor, halfway along, has served dim sum since 1920.

   45 min here Walk here →
7. 7
   Columbus Park

   Chinatown's park, where older residents play Chinese chess and cards at the tables. It was laid out in the 1890s over the worst of the Five Points slum.

   15 min here Walk here →