麦克斯·西姆金的家族世代以来都在纽约经营一家修鞋店，他自己也在店里工作。渐渐地他对自己的日常生活感到乏味，偶然间麦克斯发现了一个拥有神奇魔力的家传遗物，难以置信的事情发生了，只要麦克斯穿上店里客户的鞋子，他立刻就能够体验那个人的生活来。这样麦克斯在每一天都能过上崭新的人生。有时候，你会发现只有当你站在别人的立场才会真正了解别人。

　　长期被隔离在曼哈顿下东区的一所公寓内，安古洛兄弟只通过看电影来了解外面的世界。他们给自己取了绰号“狼群”，兄弟四人会角色扮演他们喜爱的电影来消磨时光。道具和服装都是他们自己手工精心制作的。他们的世界因为兄弟其中一人的逃脱而被打破，一切都变了。

A young orphan in New York's Lower East Side is collectively adopted by three neighborhood men--a minister, a cantor, and a cop.

1995年圣丹斯电影节评审团特别奖

Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the inherent flaws of legal methadone treatments for heroin addiction by profiling eight addicts, in various stages of recovery and relapse, who attend the New York Center for Addiction Treatment Services (NYCATS).

Real-life kung fu master Nathan Ingram stars in this gritty, low-budget martial arts epic as a local karate school owner who clashes with a gang of drug traffickers posing as the owners of a rival dojo. Director Charlie Ahearn (who helmed the landmark hip-hop film Wild Style) used the housing projects next to his New York Lower East Side apartment as his central location in this 1979 classic, shot on a vintage Super 8 camera.

1989, New York City's Alphabet City and East Village. A year after the Tompkins Square Park Riot, squatters and their community allies try to stop the demolition of their building after an arson. Police forces occupy the neighborhood while the demolition continues. A portrait of an East Village that is no more. An homage to the voices and sounds of a neighborhood before its gentrification.

Artist Taylor Denise sets out to make her first painting, which also happens to be her largest work to-date. As she embarks on this creative process of making shit because it looks cool, she's met with comradery, debauchery, and people's brains interrupting art whatever way they want to-ery.

There’s no one taste or flavor to define a neighborhood, especially one like the Lower East Side. Follow us on a culinary journey of food traditions born out of tenement life. Using historic and archival recipes, oral histories, scholarly interviews, and special guests Padma Lakshmi and Michael W. Twitty, we create a full-course meal of the American experience through the lens of food.