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Squatters Colony near 19th Street and 10th Avenue.

1932

Squatters Colony near 19th Street and 10th Avenue.

Shack of an unemployed squatter, near 19th Street west of Tenth Ave. This clearance is in preparation for a rail-road right-of-way, as part of municipal plans for improving the west side of the city. (Manhattan). July 16, 1932. P. L. Sperr.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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