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4.0 out of 5 stars
Not a place you'd ever want to reside,
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This review is from: The Sunshine Hotel (Audio CD)
This is an account of the Sunshine Hotel in New York where one could get a bed for ten dollars a night in 1999. The rooms were really compartmentalized units secured from each other by little walls that didn't reach the ceiling and topped with chicken wire.
You can see a lot of photos of this hotel on the Internet to get an idea how seedy it was. The address: 241 Bowery, on the Lower East Side in a notorious skid row. It was at times a dangerous place to hang around and was the last of the flop houses from the Bowery. This was a mile long stretch that gave 35,000 poor men a sleeping place during the depths of the Great Depression. The interviewees gave surprisingly forthcoming and truthful testimonies about their lives. The author interviewed long-term residents of this hotel. All the men's stories were down-and-out and more than a bit depressing. There seemed to be no hope left in their lives. The Sunshine Hotel seemed to me a place without hope, filled with broken men living on the edge of existence. |
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The Sunshine Hotel by Stacy Abramson (Audio CD - March 9, 1999)
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