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Cabrini Green, in Words and Pictures

Excerpt:

After years of housing generations of families, the sandy brick exterior of these rapidly aging structures have long faded to a pale hue, their foundations show signs of fatigue and many interior walls are scarred with hairline cracks. Though time has punished the row house neighborhood, it still maintains a simple charm when compared with the distressed high rises that loom above it. No matter how the larger community’s history will read or where it will end, it is here that it all began.

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