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Lyon’s Visions of a New York That No Longer Exists </a></h1>
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Shot in 1967, Lyon’s photographs offer a more nuanced and human
perspective of the destruction of the old lower Manhattan, one that is
often paved over by history books.<br>
MADRID — Over the course of 1967, <a
href="https://hyperallergic.com/tag/danny-lyon/" target="_blank"
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meticulously chronicled the large-scale demolition project taking place
in his backyard, as his one-hundred-year-old neighborhood was razed to
make way for New York’s transformation into a global financial center.
Taken as a whole, his project wicks traces of the contemporaneous <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/28/story-cities-32-new-york-jane-jacobs-robert-moses"
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that raged between community-based activism (Jane Jacobs) and top-down
planning (Robert Moses). Simultaneously, each of the exhibit’s 76
black-and-white photographs offer a more nuanced and human perspective —
one that is often paved over by history books.</div>
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