In the '80s, when author/photographer Kurt Hollander lived in New York and published "The Portable Lower East," life there was particularly rough, and cops often drove yellow cabs as a method to surprise and roust its residents. Before the decade ended, Hollander moved to the equally rough clime[...]
Included in the anthology are writings by Ameena Meer, David Wojnarowicz, Hubert Selby Jr., Herbert Huncke, and Richard Hell, as well as photographs by Annie Sprinkle, Nan Goldin, and Robert Frank.[...]