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Housing Works Cafe and Bookstore in SoHo, New York City. Founded in 1994 and located in Soho on Crosby Street, the bookstore cafe [4] is a successful entrepreneurial business raising money to support the Housing Works mission. Run primarily by a team of specially-trained volunteers, the bookstore is funded entirely by donations, and resells ...
Harvard Book Store, Cambridge. The Bookmill in Montague. Globe Corner Bookstore † in Cambridge. Grolier Poetry Bookshop in Cambridge. Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. Lucy Parsons Center in Boston. New Words Bookstore † in Cambridge. The Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley. Schoenhof's Foreign Books in Cambridge.
How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. The photographs served as a basis for future "muckraking" journalism by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle classes.
Geoffrey Bawa was born in Colombo on 23 July 1919, [5] [6] the youngest of two sons to Major Benjamin Bawa, a Sri Lankan lawyer who was partly of European parentage, [7] [8] and Bertha Marianne née Schrader, a Burgher of mixed Sinhalese, German and Scottish descent.
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First Houses. 29-41 Ave. A & 112-138 E. 3rd St. First Houses is a public housing project in the East Village, Manhattan, New York City and was one of the first public housing projects in the United States. First Houses were designated a New York City Landmark and National Historic Landmark in 1974.
www.evictedbook.com. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a 2016 nonfiction book by American sociologist Matthew Desmond. Set in the poorest areas of Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the 2007–2008 financial crisis and its immediate aftermath, the book follows eight families struggling to pay rent to their landlords, many of whom ...
Williamsburg Houses. The Williamsburg Houses, originally called the Ten Eyck Houses (pronounced TEN-IKE), is a public housing complex built and operated by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. It consists of 20 buildings on a site bordered by Scholes, Maujer, and Leonard Streets and Bushwick ...