WPA guide to New York city. (When words don't fail).(Brief Article)

From: Artforum International | Date: November 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

My first bookish instinct was to remind myself of what the neighborhood around the towers was before they went up, and so I turned to the WPA Guide to New York City, published in 1939, which describes the area as the Lower West Side, an appellation that has disappeared entirely. The Guide reports that the character of the neighborhood was "derived from produce sheds, crates, smells of fruit and fish of Washington Market, and the amazing variety of retail shops selling radios, pets, garden seeds, fire works, sporting goods, shoes, textiles, and church supplies." World trade was ...

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