LYON, Danny. MacMillan. New York. 1969. Hardcover. First Printing. 75 B+W Plates. 9.5" x 10.75". GOOD Condition. Dustjacket Shows Moderate Wear & Tear; Housed in Brodart Protective Sleeve. HC VF-
In 1966, Danny Lyon returned to New York City, having just completed his seminal book THE BIKERIDERS. While staying in a loft in Lower Manhattan, Lyon saw that half the buildings on Beekman Street were boarded up, about to be demolished. That year, sixty acres of mostly 19th-century buildings were slated for demolition, all below Canal Street. Whole sections of Lower Manhattan were being turned into rubble. "I came to see the buildings as fossils of a time past," writes Lyon. "For a hundred years they've stood in the darkness and the day.... Now, in the end, they are visited by demolition men."
