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Lower East Side Tours
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Mondays @ 2:00pm - $20 ...out of which grew jazz and the beat generation, graffiti art and punk rock, the squatters movement, the garden movement and radical underground cinema: there's more to Alphabet City than meets the eye, stories that could happen only in metropolis' darkest corner Reservations: Not Required, you can pay your guide.
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Once the
godforsaken broken heart of the ghetto, the most densely populated
square mile on the face of the earth, built over an industrial
wasteland, then abandoned to a wild mix of marginal artists, angry
anarchists, gangs, dealers, excons and thieves, against a backdrop of
urban blight, tenements burned to rubble and danger on every corner...
Rob Hollander, Ph.D, a native East Side New Yorker, author, researcher and licensed tour guide, moved into Alphabet City in the 1970's, during its most desperate years of poverty, and has never left. A neighborhood preservationist and community activist, Hollander earns his living as an academic linguist and early music vocalist while contributing articles to various online media sources and published works on, among other subjects, tenement architecture and local history.
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