"Though my memory of this early Paradise could scarcely begin...

"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