Life on the Lower East Side, the first monograph of Lepkoff’s works, highlights the lost neighborhood between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges from the Bowery to the East River. With over 170 beautifully reproduced duotone photographs and essays by Peter Dans and Suzanne Wasserman, the book reveals the dynamic community of Italians, Irish, Jews, Greeks, Spaniards, Chinese, Puerto Ricans, and African-Americans. Lepkoff’s images uncover a forgotten time and place and reveal how the Lower East Side has both stayed the same and changed forever.

An exhibition of the photographs presented in this book will be held at the Museum of the City of New York from October 2006.