Tag: Compare paintings of urban renewal

• George Bellows: Last stop, 59th Street

  

  The lone tenement beneath the new Queensboro Bridge looks out of place. Is it real? Or is it an architectural ghost, haunting us with memories of homes that were razed?

  Diane Tucker

  2022-06-19

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