№ 0004·NIGHT 001·Lower East Side·AUG 15 2026·10:40 PM–5:20 AM
FRIDAY
LOWER EAST SIDE → CHINATOWN
Saturday, August 15, 2026
10:40 PM–5:20 AM
10:40 PM
Left the apartment with a full battery and no plan.
11:05 PM
Bar on Orchard where the bartender charges whatever he thinks you can afford. He looked at us and said fourteen.
11:50 PM
A man named Roland told us he'd been coming to this bar since 1991 and that it used to be "worse, in the good way." He would not let us take his picture. He let us take his picture.
“You're documenting this? Document that I'm not here.”
1:30 AM
Dinner at someone's apartment. Nobody who lived there was home.
3:10 AM
Walked Lena back to the studio. She said she was going to sleep. Her light was on when we passed at 4:45.
The notebook. We can read about a third of this.
5:20 AM
East Broadway. Blue. A man hosing down the sidewalk in front of the bakery, who nodded.
People encountered
Lena · T. · Roland · the girl from the stoop · the man with the hose