Lower East Side

Murder on the Lower East Side

Arts, Culture & Media

Kurt and Richard Price wander through the gritty-turned-hipster neighborhood at the center of Price’s novel Lush Life. Cultures clash violently in the book — they visit the scene of the crime.

Justin Bettman and Gözde Eker animate their sets with actors hired through a local casting website. After they’ve staged their photo, they leave the set up for passersby to explore, photograph, rearrange or selfie. This living room was the first set they

Here’s how you can find a bathroom, or a living room, on the streets of New York

Arts
An archival photo of matzo-making at Streit's on the Lower East Side; things haven't changed all that much at the factory over the decades.

A family that’s made matzo on the Lower East Side for nearly a century prepares to leave the neighborhood

Food