Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Lower East Side (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Lower East Side. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Lower East Side is located in New York County .
To see how the shape of New York's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries .
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of New York County : Bergen (NJ) , Essex (NJ) , Hudson (NJ) , Passaic (NJ) , Bronx , Kings , Nassau & Queens .
Below are the counties that are near Lower East Side. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Lower East Side:
New York County (The home county of Lower East Side)
The following are listed by their distance from Lower East Side, with the one closest to Lower East Side listed first.
East Village (Less than 2 miles to the north)
East Village is located in New York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Village University Village (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
University Village is located in New York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for University Village Knickerbocker Village (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Kips Bay (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Kips Bay is located in New York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kips Bay Peter Cooper Village (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Peter Cooper Village is located in New York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peter Cooper Village Stuyvesant Town (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Stuyvesant Town is located in New York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stuyvesant Town Greenwich Village (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Greenwich Village is located in New York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwich Village Washington Square Village (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Battery Park City (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Battery Park City is located in New York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Battery Park City Fort Jay (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Fort Jay is located in New York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Jay Governors Island (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Governors Island is located in New York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Governors Island Hell's Kitchen (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Hell's Kitchen is located in New York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hell's Kitchen Manhattan (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Manhattan is located in New York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manhattan Bronx County
The following are listed by their distance from Lower East Side, with the one closest to Lower East Side listed first.
Concourse Village (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Concourse Village is located in Bronx County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Concourse Village Bronx (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Bronx is located in Bronx County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bronx Population from the 2010 Census: 1,385,108 people
Bronx has also been known as:
Bronx Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bronx <1>
Fordham (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Fordham is located in Bronx County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fordham Locust Point (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Locust Point is located in Bronx County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Point Throggs Neck (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Throggs Neck is located in Bronx County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Throggs Neck Kings Bridge (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Kings Bridge is located in Bronx County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Bridge Spuyten Duyvil (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Spuyten Duyvil is located in Bronx County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spuyten Duyvil Williams Bridge (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Williams Bridge is located in Bronx County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williams Bridge Riverdale (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
City Island (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
City Island is located in Bronx County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for City Island Eastchester (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Eastchester is located in Bronx County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastchester Kings County
The following are listed by their distance from Lower East Side, with the one closest to Lower East Side listed first.
New York (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
New York is located in Kings County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New York Population from the 2020 Census: 8,253,213 people
Williamsburg (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Williamsburg is located in Kings County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williamsburg Brooklyn Heights (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Brooklyn Heights is located in Kings County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brooklyn Heights Greenpoint (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Greenpoint is located in Kings County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenpoint Red Hook (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Red Hook is located in Kings County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Hook Bushwick (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Bushwick is located in Kings County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bushwick Brooklyn (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Flatbush (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Flatbush is located in Kings County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flatbush Weeksville ‑ Historic(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Weeksville is located in Kings County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weeksville Brownsville (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Brownsville is located in Kings County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownsville Marcus Garvey Village (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Bay Ridge (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Bay Ridge is located in Kings County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bay Ridge Dyker Heights (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Dyker Heights is located in Kings County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dyker Heights Nassau County
The following are listed by their distance from Lower East Side, with the one closest to Lower East Side listed first.
Bellerose Terrace (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Bellerose Terrace is located in Nassau County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellerose Terrace Great Neck Estates (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Great Neck Estates is located in Nassau County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Great Neck Estates Population from the 2020 Census: 2,867 people
East Atlantic Beach (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
East Atlantic Beach is located in Nassau County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Atlantic Beach Harbor Hills (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Harbor Hills is located in Nassau County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harbor Hills Saddle Rock Estates (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Saddle Rock Estates is located in Nassau County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saddle Rock Estates Saddle Rock (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Bellerose (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Elmont (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Floral Park (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Great Neck Plaza (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Great Neck Plaza is located in Nassau County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Great Neck Plaza Population from the 2020 Census: 7,006 people
Great Neck Gardens (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Great Neck Gardens is located in Nassau County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Great Neck Gardens Great Neck (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Cedarhurst (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Queens County
The following are listed by their distance from Lower East Side, with the one closest to Lower East Side listed first.
Long Island City (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Sunnyside (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Fresh Pond (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Fresh Pond is located in Queens County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fresh Pond Maspeth (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Ridgewood (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Astoria (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Woodside (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Elmhurst (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Glendale (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Glendale is located in Queens County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glendale Middle Village (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Corona (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Lefrak City (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Lefrak City is located in Queens County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lefrak City Jackson Heights (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Richmond County
The following are listed by their distance from Lower East Side, with the one closest to Lower East Side listed first.
New Brighton (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
New Brighton is located in Richmond County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Brighton Stapleton (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Stapleton is located in Richmond County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stapleton Fort Wadsworth (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Fort Wadsworth is located in Richmond County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Wadsworth Old Town Station (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Old Town Station is located in Richmond County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town Station Port Richmond (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Port Richmond is located in Richmond County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Richmond Arlington (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Arlington is located in Richmond County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arlington Staten Island (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Westerleigh (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Westerleigh is located in Richmond County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westerleigh Graniteville (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Graniteville is located in Richmond County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graniteville Grant City (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Grant City is located in Richmond County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant City Bloomfield (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Bloomfield is located in Richmond County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomfield Population from the 2020 Census: 1,303 people
Heartland Village (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Heartland Village is located in Richmond County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heartland Village Oakwood (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Oakwood is located in Richmond County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakwood Rockland County
The following are listed by their distance from Lower East Side, with the one closest to Lower East Side listed first.
Palisades (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Tappan (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Orangeburg (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Piermont (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Sparkill (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Pearl River (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Blauvelt (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Grand View-on-Hudson (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Grand View-on-Hudson is located in Rockland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand View-on-Hudson Population from the 2020 Census: 296 people
Chestnut Ridge (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Nanuet (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
South Nyack (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
South Nyack is located in Rockland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Nyack Population from the 2020 Census: 3,305 people
Central Nyack (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Central Nyack is located in Rockland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central Nyack Nyack (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Suffolk County
The following are listed by their distance from Lower East Side, with the one closest to Lower East Side listed first.
Amityville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Cold Spring Harbor (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
East Farmingdale (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
East Farmingdale is located in Suffolk County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Farmingdale North Amityville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
North Amityville is located in Suffolk County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Amityville West Hills (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
West Hills is located in Suffolk County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Hills Amity Harbor (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Amity Harbor is located in Suffolk County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amity Harbor Copiague (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Melville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Lloyd Harbor (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Lloyd Harbor is located in Suffolk County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lloyd Harbor Population from the 2020 Census: 3,650 people
Westchester County
The following are listed by their distance from Lower East Side, with the one closest to Lower East Side listed first.
Eastchester (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Yonkers (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Mount Vernon (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
Pelham Manor (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
Pelham (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Bryn Mawr Park (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Bryn Mawr Park is located in Westchester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryn Mawr Park Nepperhan (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Nepperhan is located in Westchester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nepperhan Bronxville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
New Rochelle (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Tuckahoe (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Mount Hope (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Mount Hope is located in Westchester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Hope Larchmont (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Hastings-on-Hudson (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Fairfield County (CT)
The following are listed by their distance from Lower East Side, with the one closest to Lower East Side listed first.
Belle Haven (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Belle Haven is located in Fairfield County (CT) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belle Haven Glenville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Glenville is located in Fairfield County (CT) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenville Greenwich (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Cos Cob (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Greenwich (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Greenwich is located in Fairfield County (CT) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwich Population from the 2020 Census: 62,769 people
Old Greenwich (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Bergen County (NJ)
The following are listed by their distance from Lower East Side, with the one closest to Lower East Side listed first.
Fort Lee (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Fort Lee is located in Bergen County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Lee Ridgefield Park (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Ridgefield Park is located in Bergen County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgefield Park Population from the 2020 Census: 12,837 people
Lyndhurst (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Lyndhurst is located in Bergen County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyndhurst North Arlington (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
North Arlington is located in Bergen County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Arlington Linwood (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
Linwood is located in Bergen County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linwood Borough of Wood-Ridge (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Borough of Wood-Ridge is located in Bergen County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Borough of Wood-Ridge Estimated population in 2015: 8,249 people
Englewood (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Englewood is located in Bergen County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Englewood Population from the 2020 Census: 28,278 people
Hackensack (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Hackensack is located in Bergen County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hackensack Population from the 2020 Census: 43,981 people
Teaneck (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Teaneck is located in Bergen County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teaneck West Englewood (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
West Englewood is located in Bergen County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Englewood Garfield (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Garfield is located in Bergen County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garfield Population from the 2020 Census: 31,641 people
Rochelle Park (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Rochelle Park is located in Bergen County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rochelle Park Saddle Brook (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Saddle Brook is located in Bergen County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saddle Brook Essex County (NJ)
The following are listed by their distance from Lower East Side, with the one closest to Lower East Side listed first.
Newark (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Newark is located in Essex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newark Population from the 2020 Census: 282,520 people
Belleville (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Belleville is located in Essex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belleville Nutley (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
Nutley is located in Essex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nutley Bloomfield (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
Bloomfield is located in Essex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomfield Brookdale (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
Brookdale is located in Essex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brookdale East Orange (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
East Orange is located in Essex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Orange Population from the 2020 Census: 64,630 people
Elm Park Village (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Elm Park Village is located in Essex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elm Park Village Irvington (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Irvington is located in Essex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irvington Montclair (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Montclair is located in Essex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montclair Orange (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Orange is located in Essex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orange Upper Montclair (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Upper Montclair is located in Essex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Montclair Maplewood (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Maplewood is located in Essex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maplewood South Orange (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
South Orange is located in Essex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Orange Hudson County (NJ)
The following are listed by their distance from Lower East Side, with the one closest to Lower East Side listed first.
Jersey City (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Jersey City is located in Hudson County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jersey City Population from the 2020 Census: 262,664 people
Hoboken (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Hoboken is located in Hudson County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoboken Population from the 2020 Census: 53,081 people
West New York (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
West New York is located in Hudson County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West New York Population from the 2020 Census: 53,132 people
Union City (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Union City is located in Hudson County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union City Population from the 2020 Census: 67,137 people
Weehawken (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Weehawken is located in Hudson County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weehawken Bergen (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Bergen is located in Hudson County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bergen Communipaw (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Communipaw is located in Hudson County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Communipaw Guttenberg (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Guttenberg is located in Hudson County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guttenberg Population from the 2020 Census: 11,015 people
North Bergen (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
North Bergen is located in Hudson County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Bergen Secaucus (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Secaucus is located in Hudson County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Secaucus Population from the 2020 Census: 21,602 people
Bayonne (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Bayonne is located in Hudson County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayonne Population from the 2020 Census: 65,165 people
Kearny (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Kearny is located in Hudson County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kearny Population from the 2020 Census: 40,507 people
Harrison (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Harrison is located in Hudson County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrison Population from the 2020 Census: 20,481 people
Middlesex County (NJ)
The following are listed by their distance from Lower East Side, with the one closest to Lower East Side listed first.
Port Reading (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Port Reading is located in Middlesex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Reading Avenel (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Avenel is located in Middlesex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avenel Boynton Beach (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Boynton Beach is located in Middlesex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boynton Beach Edgar (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Edgar is located in Middlesex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgar Sewaren (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Sewaren is located in Middlesex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sewaren Colonia (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Colonia is located in Middlesex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colonia Woodbridge (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Woodbridge is located in Middlesex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodbridge Hopelawn (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Hopelawn is located in Middlesex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopelawn Iselin (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Iselin is located in Middlesex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iselin Perth Amboy (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Perth Amboy is located in Middlesex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perth Amboy Population from the 2020 Census: 51,309 people
Fords (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Fords is located in Middlesex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fords Menlo Park (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Menlo Park is located in Middlesex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Menlo Park North Edison (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
North Edison is located in Middlesex County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Edison Monmouth County (NJ)
The following are listed by their distance from Lower East Side, with the one closest to Lower East Side listed first.
Belford (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Belford is located in Monmouth County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belford Leonardo (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Leonardo is located in Monmouth County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leonardo North Middletown (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
North Middletown is located in Monmouth County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Middletown Port Monmouth (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Port Monmouth is located in Monmouth County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Monmouth Navesink (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Navesink is located in Monmouth County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Navesink New Monmouth (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
New Monmouth is located in Monmouth County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Monmouth Waterwitch (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Waterwitch is located in Monmouth County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterwitch Chapel Hill (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Chapel Hill is located in Monmouth County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapel Hill Navesink Beach (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Navesink Beach is located in Monmouth County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Navesink Beach Cliffwood Beach (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Cliffwood Beach is located in Monmouth County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cliffwood Beach Cliffwood (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Cliffwood is located in Monmouth County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cliffwood Hazlet (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Hazlet is located in Monmouth County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazlet Fairview (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Fairview is located in Monmouth County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview Morris County (NJ)
The following are listed by their distance from Lower East Side, with the one closest to Lower East Side listed first.
Hanover Neck (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Hanover Neck is located in Morris County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hanover Neck East Hanover (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
East Hanover is located in Morris County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Hanover Rosedale Village (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Rosedale Village is located in Morris County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosedale Village Yardley Village (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Yardley Village is located in Morris County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yardley Village Troy Hills (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Troy Hills is located in Morris County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troy Hills Whippany (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Whippany is located in Morris County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whippany Montville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Montville is located in Morris County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montville Green Village (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Green Village is located in Morris County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Village Boonton (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Boonton is located in Morris County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boonton Population from the 2020 Census: 8,878 people
Taylortown (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Taylortown is located in Morris County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylortown Littleton (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Littleton is located in Morris County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Littleton Morristown (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Morristown is located in Morris County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morristown Population from the 2020 Census: 19,229 people
Morristown has also been known as:
New Hanover West Hanover Butler (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Butler is located in Morris County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butler Passaic County (NJ)
The following are listed by their distance from Lower East Side, with the one closest to Lower East Side listed first.
Delawanna (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
Delawanna is located in Passaic County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delawanna Passaic (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
Passaic is located in Passaic County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Passaic Population from the 2020 Census: 69,340 people
Athenia (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Athenia is located in Passaic County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Athenia Clifton (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Clifton is located in Passaic County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifton Population from the 2020 Census: 85,025 people
Little Falls (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
Little Falls is located in Passaic County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Falls The Village at Little Falls (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
Paterson (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Paterson is located in Passaic County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paterson Population from the 2020 Census: 144,801 people
Borough of Woodland Park (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Borough of Woodland Park is located in Passaic County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Borough of Woodland Park Population from the 2020 Census: 12,655 people
Singac (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Singac is located in Passaic County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Singac Preakness (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Preakness is located in Passaic County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Preakness Wayne (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Wayne is located in Passaic County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayne Haskell (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Haskell is located in Passaic County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haskell Somerset County (NJ)
The following are listed by their distance from Lower East Side, with the one closest to Lower East Side listed first.
Union Village (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Union Village is located in Somerset County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Village Smalleytown (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Smalleytown is located in Somerset County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smalleytown Somerset (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Somerset is located in Somerset County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Somerset Ukrainian Village (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Ukrainian Village is located in Somerset County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ukrainian Village Bound Brook (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Bound Brook is located in Somerset County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bound Brook Union County (NJ)
The following are listed by their distance from Lower East Side, with the one closest to Lower East Side listed first.
Elizabeth (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Elizabeth is located in Union County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elizabeth Population from the 2020 Census: 128,382 people
Hillside (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Hillside is located in Union County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillside Elmora (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Elmora is located in Union County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmora Tremley (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Tremley is located in Union County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tremley Union (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Union is located in Union County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Linden (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Linden is located in Union County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linden Population from the 2020 Census: 42,076 people
Park Village (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Park Village is located in Union County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Village Springfield (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Springfield is located in Union County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springfield Perth Amboy Junction (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Perth Amboy Junction is located in Union County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perth Amboy Junction Rahway (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Rahway is located in Union County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rahway Population from the 2020 Census: 29,832 people
Cranford (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Cranford is located in Union County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cranford Clark (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Clark is located in Union County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clark Summit (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Summit is located in Union County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit Population from the 2020 Census: 21,812 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Lower East Side, see our County-by-County Page for Lower East Side .
Cemeteries Near Lower East Side ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lower East Side.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know . If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Lower East Side - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Lower East Side covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Lower East Side, with the one closest to Lower East Side listed first.
New York City Marble Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the north)
First Shearith Israel Graveyard (Less than 2 miles to the west)
New York Marble Cemetery, 2nd Ave (Less than 2 miles to the north)
St. Paul's Churchyard Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Trinity Churchyard Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Third Cemetery of the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Second Cemetery of the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Quaker Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Linden Hill Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Ahawith Chesed Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Fourth Calvary Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
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Second Calvary Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Calvary Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Jersey City & Harsimus Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<3>
While we didn't find Lower East Side in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Lower East Side.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Lower East Side, with the one closest to Lower East Side listed first.
New York (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
New York is located in Kings County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New York Population from the 2020 Census: 8,253,213 people
Williamsburg (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Williamsburg is located in Kings County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williamsburg Greenpoint (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Greenpoint is located in Kings County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenpoint Blissville (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Blissville is located in Queens County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blissville Long Island City (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Jersey City (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Jersey City is located in Hudson County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jersey City Population from the 2020 Census: 262,664 people
Brooklyn (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Bushwick (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Bushwick is located in Kings County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bushwick Hoboken (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Hoboken is located in Hudson County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoboken Population from the 2020 Census: 53,081 people
Flatbush (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Flatbush is located in Kings County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flatbush Weehawken (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Weehawken is located in Hudson County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weehawken Ridgewood (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
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Fresh Pond (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Fresh Pond is located in Queens County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fresh Pond Maspeth (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Woodside (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Lower East Side. See our List of 1890's Communities around Lower East Side .
Newspapers Published in Lower East Side ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) .
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 122 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lower East Side.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lower East Side, there are papers which were published within 8 miles [12.9 km]<4> Extended Newspaper List for Lower East Side.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Lower East Side:
Websites specific to New York Pages specific to New York County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Bronx County Kings County Nassau County Queens County Richmond County Rockland County Suffolk County Westchester County Fairfield County Bergen County Essex County Hudson County Middlesex County Monmouth County Morris County Passaic County Somerset County Union County Cemetery Information and Directories for New York Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Lower East Side. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for State of New York: https://www.ny.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com . We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Lower East Side, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Lower East Side) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.