American Studies 207: American Cultural Landscapes Professor
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An Unattainable Salvation Dirt, Danger & Domesticity in Old New York It was 1832, and in the Five Points area of New York, a great street excavation was under way. What would cause such a flurry over the cobbles? Here, shovels plied the earth decades before the subway tunneled beneath the crowded streets. Electrical poles and telegraph lines had yet to become a nuisance worthy of inhumation. No one had found buried treasure. On the contrary—a combination of poverty, overcrowding, and municipal neglect had left the area
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