A Geography of Cultures: Or, Why New York’s Lower East Side Is an Important Case Study by Mario MAFFI

“…The essay focuses on New York’s immigrant quarter par excellence, the Lower East Side, at the south-east end of Manhattan. During the 19th century, but especially in the crucial turn-of-the-century decades, the quarter—an immigrant ghetto of appalling living and working conditions as well as a hotbed of radical politics—also functioned as a sort of cultural laboratory, a key factor in the development of such diverse but distinctive American arts such as the realist and naturalist novel, the budding movie making, the Ash Can School of painting, theatre, etc.…”
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Dorothy C. Miller, Chase Manhattan and American Banking: Investing Art? by Christine Zumello

“…She was also involved, first hand, in the perusal of the works and their downright installation as intermediaries—in business and in the physical space of the bank itself, more especially in the iconic buildings and locations which were opened at the end of the 1950s and the turn of the 1960s in the Upper East Side (410 Park Avenue) and downtown in the Financial District of Manhattan (One Chase Manhattan Plaza).…”
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