skid row

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“On the Bowery,” the director Lionel Rogosin’s classic portrait of life on skid row, is not only a time capsule of a bygone New York, but also of a bygone form of documentary filmmaking.

From New York Times • May 30, 2024

In February, The Los Angeles Times reported that sanitation crews demolished an unofficial community-resource center in the city’s skid row in what officials called a regular cleanup.

From New York Times • May 10, 2023

Access to basic sanitation in skid row falls far short of international standards for refugee camps.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2023

Pete White, executive director of the Los Angeles Community Action Network, said community members in skid row had told officers that day that Ocana was known to climb buildings and trees when he got nervous.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2023

I turned back toward them, astonished that even among skid row derelict joints they had “separate facilities.”

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin