Pounding the pavements of NYC's Lower East side is a wholly different experience these days, it still maintains an elusivity and edge yet pockets of the neighbourhood have developed into a bustling antique, curios, gastronomic and design mecca. Lula's Vegan sweet apothecary on east 6th sits next to dive-bars and questionable saunas. It is this dichotomy that makes any area a delight to explore.
Obsucra on east 10th is a den of oddities. I wavered between fascination and repugnance as I leafed through a pile of Medical diagrams, depicting the various atrophying states of Venereal disease. Bell jars containing actual shrunken heads and a dizzying array of prosthetic body parts live in giant museum cabinets within the store. I settled for an embroidered 'sacred heart' keepsake and an oil painting of a nude, mustachioed male circa. 1970.
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