Living next to the FDR: It's isolated, it's noisy, it's dirty, "it's where we want to be"

… about four times a year for two weeks at a time By 2009 there was no way that we could afford something on the Upper … of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union People who live here call it the secret borough Were a 20minute walk from … no place to shop nearby but plenty of nostalgia right around the corner from my apartment is the tenement where my …

By Allen |February 13, 2012 - 1:33PM