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By Shelley Seccombe



The Lost Waterfront: The Decline and Rebirth of Manhattan's Western Shore By Shelley Seccombe

 | #3544894 in Books  |  2008-02-15  | Original language: English  | PDF # 1  |  8.20 x .30 x 9.50l, .78  | File type: PDF  | 80 pages | File size: 26.Mb
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Most Helpful 0 of 0 review helpful DEMISE AND RENEWAL By DOPPLEGANGER Shelley Seccombe pictorially captures the results of Manhattan s West Side s shoreline s downward slide into disrepair through the abandonment of many of the Hudson River piers sheds and wharehouses into a very unsightly and dangerous condition However she also illustrates how in the 30 year period from when she started her photographic tale of urban For more than a century the Hudson River piers in Greenwich Village bustled with the maritime commerce that made New York the greatest port in the country By the 1960s after years of economic decline the great waterfront was disappearing After the West Side Highway was closed in 1973 many of the piers now abandoned burned while others collapsed into the river By the 1990s only ghosts were left Yet there came a moment in time fifteen years perhaps when the dec That interval between death and renewal is what Shelley Seccombe has sobeautifully documented capturing both the everyday and the catastrophic inall weathers and conditions of light she allows us now to share her passionateenthusiasm for this raked over

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