New Yorks new cultural quarter

OK, WAIT. Tell me that’s not a chimpanzee in denim shorts leading a blonde
Bavarian milkmaid-type across a busy New York street.

%26ldquo;What’s going on?%26rdquo;

%26ldquo;We’re filming Germany’s Next Top Model,%26rdquo; said a bored movie-minion.

With an ape as an accoutrement? No time to ask more, I’m dashing between the
Tenement Museum and The New Museum on a cultural odyssey in one of New
York’s most fascinating but overlooked neighbourhoods - the Lower East Side.