Lower East Side Garment Company's definitions

double-L

LLES = Lower Lower East Side -- the area in Manhattan below Delancy and east of Bowery that is a mish mash of Chinese, Hasidic Jews, Project people and creeping hipsters

Visitor: "That Grand Street stop smells like garbage."

Resident: "You learn to love it when you live in the double-L...it smells like home."

by Lower East Side Garment Company August 20, 2006