[5] Kristen Lovell began documenting her experience as a sex worker in the Meatpacking District in New York City during the 1990s, while she was living in a youth shelter and enrolled in a media training program.
"[13] According to David Rooney in a review for The Hollywood Reporter, "one of the captivating paradoxes of Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker’s lovingly assembled chapter of queer history is that while it never downplays the marginalization, persecution and physical danger of being a trans woman of color making a living through sex work, it gives equal time to the resilience, the sense of community, the proud sisterhood and shared survival skills that flourished on that block long before social justice activists were taking up the “Trans Lives Matter” cause.
"[6] Jude Dry writes in a review for IndieWire, "The film takes its title from the block of 14th street between Ninth Avenue and the Hudson River where many once found their trade, which the gals called The Stroll.
"[14] In a review for Paste Magazine, B. Panther writes, "For a long time, most documentaries about trans lives were spiritually dishonest because it was usually an outsider coming in with an agenda.
"[15] Fionnuala Halligan writes in a review for Screen Daily, "It is, in a way, a companion piece to 2017's The Death And Life Of Marsha P. Johnson, which was picked up by Netflix and became a vital reference point in the continuing struggle for transgender rights.
"[4] Chris Vognar writes in a review for Rolling Stone, "in its own way, the film stands with Midnight Cowboy and Taxi Driver as a stark portrait of the naked city as it used to be.
"[17] Guy Lodge writes in a review for Variety, "This is a trans history project created by, and in service of, the trans community - a community that can collectively account for why its story merits telling, even if it's fractured and fragmented today," and "it continually honors the dignity with which women like Ceyenne, Egyptt, Lady P and Tabytha - and Lovell too - have confronted a world that would have much rather ignored if not outright erased them.