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Hard Luck Town (East 9th Street and the East River, New York City)

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Description: Hard Luck Town (East 9th Street and the East River, New York City)

TitleHard Luck Town (East 9th Street and the East River, New York City)

Creator nameWide World Photos, Inc.

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1932

Creation date (description)September 9, 1932

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsGelatin silver print

LocationMuseum of the City of New York

https://collections.mcny.org/CS.aspx?VP3=DamView&VBID=24UP1GQ0S0S0S&SMLS=1&RW=1168&RH=701

Accession numberX2010.11.5273

SubjectsNew York (N.Y.)Great Depression, 1929Bowery (New York, N.Y. : Street)

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7. Spinning Tower

Anthony Alofsin

Description: Wright and New York: The Making of America’s Architect

Wright and New York: The Making of America’s Architect

The city had been the locus for Wright’s organic vision of the Modern Cathedral, but the discussion receded while a second project with greater likelihood for realization emerged: a skyscraper on the grounds of St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, a scheme intended both to revitalize the church and to generate an urban renewal of the entire Lower East Side...

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Anthony Alofsin

PublisherYale University Press

Copyright© 2019 by Anthony Alofsin

Related print edition pages: pp.124-147

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Chapter subject tags:Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959Architecture, American--20th centuryArchitecture, Modern--20th centuryArchitects--United States--BiographyGuthrie, William Norman, 1868-1944St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery (New York, N.Y.)Skyscrapers--New York (State)--New YorkTaliesin (Spring Green, Wis.)

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