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Tenement-filled streets are a hallmark of the Lower East Side. Yet the neighborhood is also home to institutional buildings from the historic period of mass immigration in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Civic structures, settlement houses, religious institutions, health facilities and financial establishments were founded to support the new arrivals from Europe who crowded into this area. The cultural and architectural significance of these buildings—some maintaining their original functions and others repurposed—will be the subject of this walking tour. All remain neighborhood anchors today, in a thriving contemporary community that is also a heritage site.