Lower east side

Ryan is a creative from Toronto, Canada who takes photographs, writes and produces music, and collaborates with brands on engaging social campaigns.

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The first night I spent in New York City was inside a darkened Penn Station during the blackout of 1977. I had just scored a cheap apartment on the Lower East Side and was excited about returning a few weeks later to attend Cooper Union, but as I boarded my train, the lights went out, and arsonists and looters rampaged through much of the city. It was one of the lowest moments in New York history. But while middle-class whites were fleeing the city, artists like me were arriving, undeterred…

This exhibition, which primarily draws from ICP’s rich holdings of mid-twentieth-century works, examines the role images play in creating narratives.

Tria Giovan spent six years photographing the area of downtown Manhattan’s fights, feasts and family gatherings before gentrification changed it for good

Just weeks after wonderfully scummy Lower East Side stalwart Welcome to the Johnson’s opened up a sleek outpost for high-end cocktails in Bushwick, some more odd crossover news from the two unaffordable neighborhoods: the retail shop for clothing line Mandate of Heaven, having recently been priced out of Bushwick, has reportedly found a new space...

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Continued from Part 1 In June 2018, I walked the north-south streets of the Lower East Side from Orchard east to Pitt between Houston and East Broadway/Grand/Delancey and noticing what…