I used to live on Riverside Park in New York, on the Upper West Side.

West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.

People with brains went to New York, and people with faces came West.

I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.

That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.

Just before the opening of the 20th century, the Collyer brothers, Homer and Langley, are born into great privilege on the Upper East Side of New York, in a mansion overlooking Central Park.