From Miss Rosen’s article for Huck:
When American photographer Meryl Meisler arrived in Bushwick, Brooklyn, for a job interview at I.S. 291 Roland Hayes in December 1981, she was shocked at the state of the neighbourhood.
“I got out of the subway and everything was boarded up or burned down. It looked like there was a war going on but this was a quiet time,” she recalls. “I thought to myself, ‘It’s a week before Christmas and there’s a job opening? Maybe the other art teacher was killed.’”
Browse the exhibition “New York PARADISE LOST Bushwick Era Disco,” at ClampArt
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