The Archeology of Home
A Manhattan resident shares her story of uncovering the long history of her Lower East Side row house, after finding out it was in jeopardy of collapse.
If you live in an old house, chances are many, many people walked the same floors and slept in the same rooms over the years. But, have you ever wondered who they were, what their lives were like?
On this week's Cityscape, Katharine Greider writes all about her experiences uncovering the stories of her buildings past inhabitants in her new book The Archaeology of Home: An Epic Set on a Thousand Square Feet of the Lower East Side