Lower East Side

Other reports of young models around Trump and Casablanca justify Marla Maples' concerns.

Several years after that incident in 1996, a young woman named Lisa Boyne attended a dinner with Trump, Casablanca, and six models on the Lower East Side.

During the dinner, Boyne alleges that Trump and Casablancas made the women dance on the table, peeked under their skirts, and described their underwear.

Boyne stated that both Trump and Casablancas refused to leave their seats at the end of the table, meaning the women were forced to climb over them or the table in their skirts to leave.

These are Mary O's scones.

Mary O! You have probably heard of Mary, who is on the Lower East Side.

She makes these incredible scones and soda bread, just like back home.

So here's some butter and jam.

I love New York and I love different areas.

Like every time we go, I feel like the Lower East Side is like such a vibe.

Yeah.

But it's so

yeah

and then going to see it like a broadway show like it's just really magical few days

I would also say, too, me liking the Lower East Side is partly nostalgia.

So I feel like...

We helped a lot of people.

I worked in the Lower East Side, which is a poor neighborhood, for 10 years in the 7th Precinct.

And I think those residents, a lot of those people over there will remember me as the good cop that helped everybody.

And that's what police officers do.

Another rape.

Right.

Well, what are they up to? Like five forcible rapes? You know, when I worked in the Lower East Side right over there for 10 years, I made probably I believe I have about four or five Rape One collars, right? But only one was in the 7th precinct.

The others was when I was flying somewhere else in other precincts.

And me and Harry went on missions.

We ran around the Lower East Side right here together.

He's doing well, and I want to see everyone doing well.

But we have to find that thing inside of us.

He was in a group as a little kid and then kind of got lost for a while and forgotten about and now had to figure out how to reintroduce himself to the world, doing what he loved, right? So, you know, and people don't give Babito enough props because Babito...

He's responsible for a lot of the underground music and culture that we take for granted now.

he saw the potential gave people a shot whether that was on the radio or at his little store in the lower east side or on his little independent record label a lot of people who we now think of as household names and legendary they got their start right there you know what i mean my man tame one rest in peace the artifacts They got on on Bobito's little college radio station with Stretch.

So what was my point? Bob introduced the two of us.

ambassador.

We love you too, and since the Lower East Side, the Italians and the Jews have been together.

So we've done a lot of things together since the 10s and 20s in the Lower East Side.

So a lot of great people came from there.

So the Jews and the Italians, I've always been strong together.

I'm Larry Mantle with historian Caroline Luce, author of Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine, Race, Labor, and Jewish Radicalism in Los Angeles.

So I'm wondering in these families where for some older family members, members perhaps coming to Los Angeles and they see this as the chance to move out of a very different kind of experience they would have, let's say, living in a very cramped flat on the Lower East Side of New York to something very different in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, only to find their kids, these radicalized, reaching out to people of color and wanting to revolutionize politics.

How did that play out in households?

Yeah, well, some of the arguments within households actually began in Eastern Europe.

Sourmilk would not have had that opportunity, but now I get to leverage that for our brand.

Or, you know, I just was on this series with this influencer in the Lower East Side, and he has a huge platform, and, like, he probably would not have asked me to be on that platform if he knew that I couldn't talk to the camera.

And so there's, there's a lot of opportunities that personally as a founder I've had that I get to then leverage to, to get the word of Sourmilk out.

And then I think the, like, last thing that is really important is I don't think everyone has to do founder-led content.

I got thrown out of this apartment, and I went to live on the streets, and I signed myself out of my six rehab, and it was a disaster.

I used to panhandle by the Manhattan Bridge and, you know, panhandle through the Lower East Side and do whatever I had to do to get a drink, and I took up residency at the back of a hallway on a street called Division Street in Lower Manhattan.

And I would go to any lengths for the price of a drink, and I lost contact with my family members.

I was unemployable.