Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

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.