Flophouse: Life on the Bowery by Harvey Wang Dictionaries and the nature of evil

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Flophouse: Life on the Bowery by Harvey Wang Dictionaries and the nature of evilIn its heyday, close to one hundred thousand men found shelter each night in flophouses along America's largest and most infamous skid row, the Bowery. Today, only a handful of flops are left, their tiny five and ten dollar a night rooms home to fewer than a thousand men, mostly long time residents. In a handful of years, this world will be gone. In Flophouse, documentarians David Isay and Stacy Abramson and photographer Harvey Wang chronicle this