Rivington Was Ours: Lady Gaga, the Lower East Side, and the Prime of OurLives

The author was a New York City DJ when he met Stefani Germanotta, then a struggling artist, in 2006. She was a go-go dancer who had bigger ambitions - she wanted nothing less than to take over the music world. In this portrait of the budding star, the author describes afternoons sitting with Gaga on the floor of her bare Lower East Side apartment.