![RAE on Manhattan's Lower East Side](https://blog.vandalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/raebridge.jpg)
A huge fan of RAE’s folksy, outsider aesthetic, I love the way his characters surface surreptitiously — quite regularly — throughout Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. Here are a few more:
![In the East Village, 2012](https://blog.vandalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Rae-East-Village-7.11.12.jpg)
![On the Lower East Side, 2012](https://blog.vandalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Rae-L.E.S.-1.12.12.jpg)
![In East Village, 2013](https://blog.vandalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/RAE-in-East-Village.jpg)
![In East Village, 2013](https://blog.vandalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Rae-East-Village-.jpg)
![In DUMBO, 2012](https://blog.vandalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Rae-Dumbo-12.1.12.jpg)
And, always, they seem to be right at home!
![In SoHo, 2013](https://blog.vandalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/RaeSoHo.jpg)
Photos by Tara Murray and Lois Stavsky