Alphabet City

By Geoffrey Biddle, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1992. First published. Text in English. Non-paginated (approximately 126 pages). 25 x 16.4 cm. Condition: Very good.

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Very beautiful book of photographs devoted to the district of New York, Alphabet City, during the years 1977/1978. Geoffrey Biddle reports on one of Manhattan’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods in the 1970s. A district of the East Village bounded by avenues A, B, C and D (which earned them its name), to the north by 14th Street and to the south by Houston Street, Alphabet City was an area of traffic and delinquency quite important between the end of the 60s and the beginning of the 90s. In this book we find the scars of violence, drugs and poverty, but also solidarity, families and their children living in a precarious environment . Book which has never been republished and which benefits in addition to the photographs, many testimonies of the inhabitants.