skid row
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“On the Bowery,” the director Lionel Rogosin’s classic portrait of life on skid row, is not only a time capsule of a bygone New York, but also of a bygone form of documentary filmmaking.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
Faced with a desperate financial situation, one of the largest owners of affordable housing on skid row is trying to transfer all its buildings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
In February, The Los Angeles Times reported that sanitation crews demolished an unofficial community-resource center in the city’s skid row in what officials called a regular cleanup.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2023
The rapper spends nine days living among the dangerous and the destitute of skid row for his new documentary.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2023
There are dozens of pitched tent dwellings made of tarps and blankets and makeshift supports, like some sort of skid row.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
