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And now, a tour of the Lower East Side via that guy who wrote a book about his friend, Lady Gaga, and their Rivington Street exploits. "Rivington Was Ours covers a year in the life of Sullivan and crew—girlfriend, co-workers, bar owners, transvestite go-go dancers, and Gaga—as they transformed a neighborhood many took for dead." [Bedford+Bowery; Previously]