“L. E. side,” 1967, by James Jowers, via George Eastman Museum Commons on flickr.
James Jowers worked in New York City and lived on the Lower East Side about the time this photo was taken.
Tag: fire escape
The Sunday porch: Independence Ave.
Upper porch of a house being torn down on Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C., June 1942, by Gordon Parks for the Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
This picture is one of a series taken by Parks documenting the “demolition of private property along Independence Avenue opposite the Smithsonian Institution. . . to make way for government housing.”
Today the location is filled by some particularly unappealing government office buildings, built during the 1960s.
Up — or out? — here:
a problem of preposition,my uneasy relation
with the world. Whether I’mabove it or apart. . . .
— Jameson Fitzpatrick, from “Balcony Scene“
