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An unforgettable photographic odyssey into New York City's eight remaining flophouses in the Bowery district captures the life stories of the men, representing all backgrounds, races, and classes, who dwell in the forgotten underbelly of one of the world's great cities. 20,000 first printing.
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<br><b>David Isay</b> is the executive producer of Sound Portraits Productions, an independent production company dedicated to bringing neglected American voices to a national radio audience. His radio documentary work has won almost every award in broadcasting. He lives in New York City.<br><br><b>Stacy Abramson</b> is a producer at Sound Portraits. She lives in New York City.<br><br><b>Harvey Wang</b> is a photographer and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker. His work includes Harvey Wang's New York and Holding On.
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;This book takes you to places you think you don't want to enter, to people you think you don't want to meet, to lives you think you don't want to live--and makes you rethink all your assumptions. It reveals the tremendous strength and humanity of those who are usually ignored. And as you pay attention, your own humanity expands."<br> ---Susan Stamberg, special correspondent, National Public Radio<br><br><br>In its heyday, close to one hundred thousand men found shelter each night in flophouses along America's largest and most infamous skid row, the Bowery. Today, only a handful of flops are left, their tiny five- and ten-dollar-a-night rooms home to fewer than a thousand men, mostly long-time residents. In a handful of years, this world will be gone.<br> <br>In <b>Flophouse</b>, documentarians David Isay and Stacy Abramson and photographer Harvey Wang chronicle this vanishing wor
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Illustrated by Harvey Wang (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. A first Edition/First Printing that has a minor soiling to the front board, else Fine in a Very Good+ dust-jacket that has a price sticker on the rear in addition to an edge tear and a long cut down the rear surface; In Flophouse: Life on the Bowery, Isay and Stacy Abramson document the lives of the people who call the Bowery home. They tell the stories of addicts, prostitutes, and the criminals who prey on them, and of the people who are forced to live in the squalor and violence of the Bowery.The Abramson's provide a vivid and intimate look at the lives of the people who call the Bowery home, from the addicts and prostitutes who ply their trade there, to the criminals who prey on them. They also explore the complex and ever-changing world of the Bowery, from its early days as a working-class neighborhood to its current state as a place of extreme poverty and violence.; B&W Photographs; 4to; 150 pages. Seller Inventory # 57040
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