there goes the neighborhood

Konrad Fiedler

The first stop for many immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island was a room and/or a job on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and hundreds of prominent business and civic leaders grew up in this community. Now, it is undergoing an unexpected renaissance.

“Until fairly recently the Bowery always possessed the greatest number of groggeries, flophouses, clip joints, brothels, fire sales, rigged auctions, pawnbrokers, dime museums, shooting galleries, dime-a-dance establishments, fortune-telling and lottery agencies, thieves markets and tattoo parlors, as well as second and third rate theaters,” the director of Eastern Consolidated Properties, Alan Miller, said.

The flophouses of the Bowery and Lower East Side are being replaced

(New York Sun) 

I can attest to that. I’ll take my camera outside one day and will show you the evidence.