New Yorker Cartoons Satirize Old New York

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Corner of Crosby Street and Prince Street, 1980. A tumbleweed blows through Soho at dusk. In the foreground, a sign advertises a loft apartment available for negative $845 a month. Due to the era’s rent-control laws, it became common practice for a landlord to pay a tenant a monthly fee to live in his building, so long as the apartment was two-thousand square feet or larger.

Photo: Mike Reddy