as well as the City Planning Commission of New York, in tiresome and protracted negotiations for slum clearance with officers of large fiduciaries. After months of work and argument, projects have ...

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After the Civil War, those considered "strangers" in New York City included African Americans, immigrants, and those who had died in the city's slums. Today the cemetery is home to bodies that ...

Aquatint, New York from Heights near ... Multitudes To paraphrase Whitman, the city contained multitudes -- and seeming contradictions. Densely populated slums existed just around the corner ...