Biography of a Tenement House in New York City by Andrew S. D... - 9780813953243
University of Virginia Press
Biography of a Tenement House in New York CityAn Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street\nAuthor(s): Andrew S. Dolkart\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Virginia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Virginia Press\nISBN-13: 9780813953243, 978-0813953243\nSynopsis\n\""I trace my ancestry back to the Mayflower,\"" writes Andrew S. Dolkart. \""Not to the legendary ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620, but to the more prosaic tenement on the southeast corner of East Broadway and Clinton Street named the Mayflower, where my father was born in 1914 to Russian-Jewish immigrants.\"" For Dolkart, his father's experience of being raised in a tenement became a metaphor for the life that was afforded countless immigrant children growing up in Lower Manhattan during the past century. In this revised edition of his classic book, Dolkart presents for us a precise and informative biography of a typical tenement house in New York City that became, in 1o
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