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Lucy Sante

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A Roomful of Death and Destruction

The room at One Police Plaza, jammed to the ceiling with filing cabinets and boxes, and reeking of vinegar, held about 180,000 images ranging from 1914 to 1972.

by Lucy Sante via New York Review of Books
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on June 22, 2015

Nineteen Resevoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City

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The Ashokan Reservoir in upstate New York at sunset.

The Towns at the Bottom of New York City’s Reservoirs

A new book uncovers the story of New York’s pursuit of water, and the homes and communities destroyed in the process.

by Robert Sullivan via The New Republic on November 10, 2022

Sparkles in light coming through windows of an empty room.

Signs of Ghosts

What do we do when there are whole cities full of ghosts, each one with their own unique story to tell, each one with something left undone?

by Colin Dickey via Longreads on October 26, 2023

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