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

Leaders of other skid row organizations told The Times that they have unpaid bills for services to the trust but are trying to resolve them without going to court.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2023

I turned back toward them, astonished that even among skid row derelict joints they had “separate facilities.”

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin