skid row

“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.

Faced with a desperate financial situation, one of the largest owners of affordable housing on skid row is trying to transfer all its buildings.

The rapper spends nine days living among the dangerous and the destitute of skid row for his new documentary.

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.

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