Pickle Paradise: A Walk Exploring New York City’s “Pickle Alley”

New York is a city of immigrants, and those immigrants brought pickles with them. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, a heavy influx of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe arrived to New York and, thankfully, introduced kosher dill pickles to America. On the Lower East Side especially, they quickly became a popular, affordable street food.

Join journalist and avid pickle person Kasia Pilat on a walk exploring New York’s “Pickle Alley,” a stretch of Essex Street where, at its peak, there were an estimated 80-plus pickle vendors. Learn about the history of the neighborhood, the pickling process, and visit some of the few remaining pickle shops in the area.