Brave New York (2004)

BRAVE NEW YORK is a freeform documentary that loosely chronicles the last twelve years of intense change in the East Village hood From the reopening of a newly curfewed Tompkins Square Park and Wigstock in 92 to the destruction of the cherished Loisaida Community Gardens beyond the yuppie invasions of the dot com years to the present era indelibly stamped with post 911 grief this durable lusty neighborhood survives in spite of a real estate gold rush that has excluded all but the welltodo The movies main voices are those of the artists and street people whose wisdom and commentaries upon the dominant culture give us pause amidst the speedy approach of a Brave New World This Overview was taken from Fandor where this film is available 2004