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The juxtaposition of old and new New York is perhaps no more visible than on the Lower East Side. Aged tenements sit next to luxury glass towers and edgy clubs, and upscale bistros have replaced bargain stores and bodegas. “Things are changing on a scale not seen since Robert Moses,” said Eric Ferrara, founding executive director of the Lower East Side History Project, in “The Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited,” a panel discussion sponsored by the Gotham Center for New York City History at the Graduate Center. “Once it seemed like the Lower East Side was just getting its footing,” said Ferrara, “and along comes a whole other group to melt in the so-called pot.” Participants also included artist Clayton Patterson, historian Joyce Mendelsohn and Annie Polland of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.
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