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The Building of a Community
The Building of a Community: a Modern Documentary on Lower East Side Culture, Activism and Community
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11 & B
11 & B: Vintage Film Project Documenting Lower East Side Culture in 1980s
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Locals talk about the history of the East Village
Watch: Talking With East Villager's About How the Neighborhood Got Its Name
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Shake Shack, Theater District
Find Out Which New York City Restaurants Used To Be Raunchy Sex Clubs
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Dead Ringer, a Fantastic Short Film Paying Homage To New York City's Forgotten Pay Phones
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Steven Hirsch, Beautiful Photography of Disgusting Pollution | BK Stories
Meet Steven Hirsh, a Photographer Capturing the Beauty of Toxic Gowanus Canal Pollution
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Dec. 18, 1969: A neglected block in Brownsville, Brooklyn, where a nationwide Model Cities program — which aimed to bring a holistic improvement regimen to selected neighborhoods in 52 cities — was seen as stumbling. “Half of the program’s first year is gone,” The Times reported, “but only $7.7 million of the year’s allocation of $29 million in Federal funds have been spent.” The mayor blamed a heavy-footed city bureaucracy. “The mood is typified by Prospect Place in Brownsville, flanked by desolate acres of rubble-strewn lots,” the story read. “Rotted tenements have been torn down, but almost nothing is being built because contractors’ bids have come in above the per-room cost ceilings permitted by Congress for Federal projects.”
Vintage Photograph of a Neglected Block in Brownsville, Brooklyn Back in 1969
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"Vinyl" Production Designer Bill Groom on Recreating 1970s New York City for Hit HBO Show
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Bushwick Brooklyn (70s)
Vintage Film Show Bushwick Gangs and Brooklyn's 83rd Precinct in the 1970s
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Union Square, 1893
View 14th Street at Union Square From the Same Angle in Three Different Centries
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