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Life on the Lower East Side: Photographs by Rebecca Lepkoff, 1937-1950

Life on the Lower East Side: Photographs by Rebecca Lepkoff, 1937-1950

Life on the Lower East Side: Photographs by Rebecca Lepkoff, 1937-1950

$29.95

LEPKOFF, Rebecca. Life on the Lower East Side: Photographs by Rebecca Lepkoff, 1937-1950

Princeton Architectural Press.

Pap. 2009

Book ID: 83657

A young Rebecca Lepkoff, camera in hand, navigated the streets of the Lower East Side of New York in the 1930s and 1940s, before the Alfred E. Smith housing project largely demolished and forever changed its character. She captured the lives and times of a vibrant, close-knit, and functional multiethnic community. This first monograph of Lepkoff's works, highlights the lost neighborhood between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges from the Bowery to the East River, revealing the dynamic community of Italians, Irish, Jews, Greeks, Spaniards, Chinese, Puerto Ricans, and African Americans.

192 pp., 170 color illus.