Lower East Side Story #4 features the next chapter which takes place in New York in the 1980s, a city at the brink of bankruptcy and total collapse.

Dwight returns from his stint on Rikers, to find a neighborhood in the midst of a massive transformation courtesy of a new destructive force: crack.

His relationship deepens with Carrie and evolves with Tony. Meanwhile, Skin becomes one of the early and unforseen recipients of an era-defining event.