A View From the Fire Escape

“What good are America’s boasts of riches, as long as there exists a Lower East Side?”

Maxim Gorky said that at the beginning of the 20th century. What can be said now, at the beginning of the 21st century, is that the Lower East Side is itself one of America’s riches. Back by popular demand is A View From the Fire Escape, a collection of short plays about the Lower East Side.