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This was especially the case in the early 20 th century, when the Lower East Side was the densest neighborhood in Manhattan. As a result the hard-working immigrant populations mostly catered to themselves. Pushcarts sold everything from meats to sweets and spectacles.

An arrest among the Lower East Side pushcart vendors in Photo courtesy of the New York Public Library. In this story it is the trucking industry which serves as the villain.

Written from the vantage of the near future, the book is a faux-historical account of urban underdogs. The book ardently supports the peddlers as they fight the trucking companies with pea-shooters, protests, and sheer hubris. The book was actually written in and was likely more of a response to urban development of the West Village, where moves by urban-planner Robert Moses almost unraveled the strong community of independent shops there.

The Essex Street Market attracts all kinds of shoppers from grandmothers to gallery owners. New York University Press , p. Davidovich Bakery's Grand Opening Today". Retrieved 1 January The New York Times. Retrieved 20 July Martin Luther King Jr. Columbus Duke Ellington Frederick Douglass. Italics indicate streets no longer in existence.

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