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Oct 11, 2018 · Between 1975 and 1979, Susan Meiselas photographed a group of young Italian-American women who used to hang out on a corner near Prince Street almost every day. “I was the stranger who didn’t belong,” said Meiselas, of that time. “Little Italy was mostly for Italians then.
Sep 9, 2017 · A City On The Brink: 1960s New York In 55 Dramatic Photos. View Gallery. Before the recession of 1969 helped send New York spiraling into an era of drugs, poverty, and violence, the city had one last decade of mid-century glory, at least on the surface. New York in the 1960s was a city full of life and diversity, from the executives of Madison ...
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Feb 20, 2015 · The Bowery Boys #177: Little Italy: La Grande Storia. An Italian boy on his way to school in New York, taken between 1910 and 1915. A street musician and a cop on Mulberry Street, 1897. Notice the banks in the background. Â Mulberry Street was known as ‘the Italian Wall Street’ for all the banks which assisted in Italians saving and ...
Anonymous. Kimberly A. Immigration In the latter part of the 19th century, as Italian immigrants began to arrive in New York City in search of better opportunities, they settled in an area of Lower Manhattan that would become known as Little Italy. This neighborhood initially spanned from Canal to Houston Streets, and from Bowery to Lafayett.
#89 Senior Couple Walking Along Mulberry Street During the Feast Of San Gennaro Festival, Little Italy, Manhattan, 1968.
German-born photographer Evelyn Hofer captured New York City’s people and places in the 1960s. These pictures let us see how the world saw New York and how New Yorkers saw themselves. Hofner’s talent lies in showing us the subject and her perception of them in the time it takes to click the shutter. In Hofer’s street photos and (semi ...
May 21, 2020 · Portrait of a group of women on a sidewalk in Little Italy. The neighborhood, which once encompassed 50 blocks of Lower Manhattan, welcomed hundreds of thousands of Italian immigrants...
