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The 17 pages that link to Lower East Side, each with the reason it gives.

• Urban renewalRelated: Proposed clearance there helped spark organized opposition to top-down renewal.

• Lucky LucianoRelated: Luciano grew up in this immigrant neighborhood after arriving in New York as a child.

• Jewish American literatureRelated: Its tenements, streets, and institutions recur as settings for immigrant-era writing.

• James CagneyRelated: Cagney grew up in this New York neighborhood in an Irish-American family.

• Fanny BriceRelated: Brice grew up in this New York neighborhood in a Jewish immigrant family.

• Minsky's BurlesqueNarrower topic: The Minsky theaters grew within the neighborhood’s dense entertainment district.

• Will EisnerRelated: Eisner’s childhood in New York informed the tenement settings of his later stories.

• Bugsy SiegelBroader topic: Siegel grew up in this New York neighborhood amid the city’s early twentieth-century street life.

• Walter MatthauRelated: Matthau was born there in 1920 to a Jewish immigrant family.

• Dutch SchultzRelated: Schultz's family lived there after immigrating from Germany.

• Paul MuniRelated: Muni’s family settled in this neighborhood after emigrating from Galicia.

• John GarfieldRelated: Garfield grew up in this immigrant neighborhood, which informed his connection to urban working-class characters.

• Lepke BuchalterRelated: Buchalter grew up in this neighborhood, amid the conditions of his early criminal career.

• Fredericka MandelbaumBroader topic: Her business and social influence were rooted in this densely populated Manhattan district.

• Monk EastmanNarrower topic: Its streets and social networks formed the neighborhood base of Eastman’s gang.

• Polly AdlerRelated: Adler’s early New York life unfolded amid the immigrant communities of Manhattan.

• Yip HarburgNarrower topic: Harburg grew up in this immigrant neighborhood, whose speech and struggles informed his outlook.