Orchard Street

Orchard Street is a street in Manhattan, New York City. It covers a distance of eight blocks, from Division Street in Chinatown right up to East Houston Street on the Lower East Side. The street got its name from an orchard on James De Lancey's Colonial estate.

Orchard Street is lined in almost its entirety with low-rise low-cost apartment buildings. Life in these squalid flats is captured in the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.

Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Orchard Street
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The businesses operationg along Orchard Street are somehow related to garment and textile: there are lingerie shops, men's suit stores and discount clothing shops on the street.

In recent years, Orchard Street has undergone gentrification, and now upscale boutiques as well as designer shops are opening here as well. This is especially true north of the Rivington Street junction, while the section south of Grand Street are seeing a few new restaurants, bars and art galleries.

Guss' Pickles on Orchard Street, New York City
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Author: Wally Gobetz

How to reach Orchard Street

The street runs a length of eight city blocks. Although there are no subway stations right at the street itself, the two nearest stations are the Essex Street/Delancey Street station, served by the F, J, M and Z trains, and the Grand Street station, served by the B and D trains.

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