Lower East Side

With a neighborhood that’s constantly in flux, you’re gonna want security that’s tough enough to withstand any condition.  With City Gates, we can build you the strongest security gate or door for your Lower East Side business.

Security options include:

  • roll up doors
  • roll up gates
  • store front doors
  • security gates

 

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The Lower East Side is bound by Chinatown, the East Village and just north of Little Italy in the southeastern corner of Manhattan. Originally an immigrant and working class neighborhood, recent gentrifications and trends has made the Lower East Side an expensive cultural hub of Manhattan. Today the Lower East Side is on The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s list of America’s Most Endangered Places.

The Lower East Side has a long immigrant history with German, Jewish, Latino, Japanese, Polish, Hindu and Chinese immigrants. The Lower East Side was known for a long time to be the center for Jewish-American life in America. There are several notable synagogues such as the Bialystoker Synagogue, Beth Hamesdrash Hagadol, the Eldridge Street Synagogue and the Kehila Kedosha Janina. This Jewish-American culture has been depicted in novels like Ragtime by E.L Doctorow.

Because of a move in of many hotels and bars to the neighborhood, the cultural history (and people) of the Lower East Side are starting to vanish. Still, this neighborhood is still one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in Manhattan with lots of history and a nightlife to boot.

If you’d like to explore its vast history, go down to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum where you can take a look at what the tenements were like in the early 20th century. Or maybe go over to Katz Delicatessen (where all meats are kosher) and stop in for brunch at the Clinton Street Baking Company.

The Lower East Side is also home to many art galleries minus the commercialism of Chelsea or TriBeCa such as the ABC No Rio begun by the Colab no wave artists. Also the legendary CBGB club began in 1973, was home to a thriving punk and glam rock community. The CBGB closed its doors in 2006 and many punks of the heart miss it.

What began as a neighborhood of prostitutes and cholera patients turned into to one of the most important neighborhoods during the industrial revolution turned to the arts now is home to long term residents and hipsters who welcome the move in of new residents.

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CITY-GATES was chosen by a world wide leader in the construction management industry to provide overhead coiling doors to well known retail store chain in the South East. The slide show you are looking at is one of fifteen trailers that were needed to deliver 225 doors to various sites throughout the South Eastern United States. The customer placed an order for our Model CG300 rolling steel doors. All of the doors were constructed from 20 gage galvanized steel slats, angle iron bottom bars, angle iron guides, counter balanced torsion springs, chain hoist operated and motorized. The size of the doors ranged from 6 feet wide to 35 feet wide. Please contact our special contracts department if you have a similar requirement.