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5 unusual facts about Lower West Side


Lower West Side, Buffalo, New York

On the east Allentown with its historic district which ends approximately at Plymouth Avenue.

Lower West Side, Chicago

Robb Walsh of the Houston Press wrote that the Mexican restaurants in Pilsen are "unconsciously authentic" to original Mexican cuisine.

According to Rick Bayless, the chef and owner of Frontera Grill, this is because Mexican-Americans in Chicago do not encounter a substantial Chicano community that tells them how to cook food in the United States, so the immigrants use the same frame of reference that they had in Mexico.

Pilsen Historic District

Pilsen is a neighborhood made up of the residential sections of the Lower West Side community area of Chicago.

The International Preparatory School

The International Preparatory School is a high school that serves grades 5-12 in the Lower West Side of Buffalo, New York.


Upper West Side, Buffalo, New York

Adjacent neighborhoods include the Black Rock Neighborhood to the north, the Lower West Side and Allentown neighborhoods to the South, and the Elmwood Village to the east.


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