For centuries, pandemics have shaped NYC’s built environment

Mar 19, 2020 |

Crowded conditions in New York’s tenements—and the diseases those bred—inspired housing reforms at the turn of the 20th century. | Bettmann Archive As the number of COVID-19 cases rises in NYC, it’s instructive to recall that we have been here before In September 1668, Samuel Megapolensis, the pastor of the Dutch church in the newly […more]

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