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August 9, 2007
academic and sometimes slow to slog through, but rewarding. mele follows the development of the lower east side from working class stopover to 'slum,' to arts district, to site of radical resistance (exploring the complexities of relationships within that resistance), through the transition via cultural comodification into a series of poses of rebellion against... something. he stops just before the bar central of today is in full swing.
July 18, 2021
Fantastic history of the lower east side from the 1800s up until the 90s (it was published in 2000). I would be curious to read a second addition that accounts for the lower east side in the 21 century.
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