The Root of the City
Gabriel arrived in New York in 1892, carrying nothing but a wooden trunk and a small book of poetry in his native tongue. He was one of thousands of Eastern European immigrants who had descended upon the Lower East Side, a place where the streets were so narrow that the laundry lines formed a canopy of white sheets over the cobblestones. For the first five years, Gabriel lived in a tenement...
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