2002.05.08

13:25:32
Lower East Side, Manhattan.

Lower East Side, Manhattan.
The sanctuary of the Eldridge Street Synagogue, built in 1887, was boarded up in the 1950s as the neighborhood changed. When it was opened again it was full of pigeons. Now it's getting fixed up, slowly. The street outside is thoroughly Chinese.

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A year ago: Istanbul.