It is 176 years since Charles Dickens, the journalist, social reformer and novelist, was horrified by the depth of poverty when he came to visit the Five Points Section, of “Gangs of New York” fame, in lower Manhattan. Today, Dickens would find a relatively gentrified but stratified Manhattan, where...
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