They are four generations removed from the sweatshops where their great grandparents labored on New York's Lower East Side.

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Mr. Shore's picture of a scarred window at a Korean restaurant on New York's Lower East Side continues his longstanding interest in American eating and commerce.

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Artist Luzinterruptus fitted 10, 000 books that had been discarded by public libraries with LED lights and covered the streets of Melbourne with them, and in an exciting development the much-anticipated Low Line underground park in NYC debuted a full-scale model of their incredible fiber-optic solar-concentrating technology in New York City's lower east side.

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Having engineered my own exodus out of Florida, I was newly arrived in New York, living on the Lower East Side, flat broke.

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The Fuller Brush man made regular rounds in our Lower East Side neighborhood in New York City.

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Today the Smith women live within a few blocks of each other on Manhattan's Lower East Side and share a weekend home in upstate New York.

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Their stories are the continuation of the immigrant dream, said Mr. Levine, whose own family has roots on the Lower East Side, and lift the film out of a mere lamentation of the old New York lost to modernity.

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