In 1935 the renowned photographer Berenice Abbott set out on a five-year, WPA-funded project to document New York's transformation from a nineteenth-century cit

Over 100 finest pieces from Gray s "Streetscape" column for The New York Times. 110 illus. Introduction. "

"A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City's transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city's future"--

Explores the story of this intersection, from when Broadway was a mere dirt path known as Bloomingdale Road, through the district's decades of postwar decay, to