A visual history of the Lower East Side

Photographer Karen O'Sullivan remembers the neighbourhood's gritty, pre-gentrification glory days. Photographer Karen O'Sullivan remembers the neighbourhood's gritty, pre-gentrification glory days. By the '80s, New York's Lower East Side (LES) had been decimated by the ravages of drugs, "benign neglect" and landlord-sponsored arson.

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