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From: "heyfebirt" <>
Subject: Re: Pictures of lost NYC neighborhoods
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:58:34 -0400
References: <1e5.22be984c.2dfd2cea@aol.com>


I tried the link mentioned but it fails to come up.
Has anyone else experienced difficulty or is the site down.
I also tried just the college website and experienced the same result.

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Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 12:07 AM
Subject: Pictures of lost NYC neighborhoods


> The following has been extracted from a posting by Mike
()
> to :
>
> LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens has placed online
> 2,000 of the 20,000 negatives produced by New York City Housing Authority
> photographers who, beginning in the early 1930's, recorded the vast
destruction of
> poor neighborhoods that made way for hundreds of public housing project
>
> Go to: http://www.housingauthority.lagcc.cuny.edu/nycha/
>
> And, then click on "Photographs" along the left-hand side.
>
>
> Thus, those of you who have been unable to obtain a picture of a house or
> building that no longer exists may find that picture at the above URL.
>
> Good luck.
>
> I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting.
>
> Regards,
>
> Walter Greenspan
>
> ______________________________


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