F E B R U A R Y 2 0 0 7 I S S U E The Big Picture
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Photo by Rebecca Lepkoff |
Sit, Eat Something
Life on the Lower East Side (Princeton Architectural
Press, 2006) is the first monograph of photographs by
Rebecca Lepkoff, who chronicled life in this vibrant,
multi-ethnic neighborhood before its buildings were razed
in 1950 to make room for the Alfred E. Smith housing
project. Peter Dans, an associate professor of internal
medicine at Johns Hopkins, grew up there. In his essay,
"There Once Was a Neighborhood," he tells of a childhood
spent with extended family at 344 Water Street — a
cold water flat with a woodstove in the kitchen, where
"Sit, eat something" was the traditional greeting.
Lepkoff's pictures, he writes, will introduce readers to a
part of New York "lost amidst all the gains we call
progress." |
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