
"Though my memory of this early Paradise could scarcely begin before the age of 5, and though I quit the neighborhood at the age of 9, these few early years are ineradically engraved on my mind. I returned a few times after I had grown up and always, no matter how great the deterioratiohn, the streets and houses fascinated me."
Henry Miller on his childhood in Williamsburg Brooklyn in the 1890’s
   
    
    
    
        Published on July 22, 2013 16:03