A Century Downtown
A Century Downtown
- ISBN 13:
9781576879443
- ISBN 10:
1576879445
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 02/04/2020
- Publisher: Powerhouse Books
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Summary
Catchphrases like "urban renewal" have a nice ring to them, but none measure up to the tectonic, often brutal metamorphoses that have remade Lower Manhattan over the last century. Downtown's defining cataclysmic event is undeniably 9/11. Yet we often forget that the original World Trade Center grew out of the wholesale demolition of an entire neighborhood, home to more than 300 electronics businesses employing some 30,000 workers. We forget that the first "worst terrorist attack in American history"-the Wall Street bombing of 1920-claimed 38 lives and triggered a tsunami of anti-immigrant sentiment that swept Warren G. Harding into the White House. We forget that Washington Street was once home to the biggest Arab-American community in the country, known as Little Syria, eventually displaced by the transportation appetite of a burgeoning suburbia.
A Century Downtown raises these and other pivotal events-some mere footnotes to
the city's official history-into sharp relief. It's a remarkable visual journey guided
by a fascinating historical narrative that sheds new light on the evolution of Lower Manhattan over the past hundred years.