The Huddled Masses of Mulberry Bend Frame Style:Canvas Wrap where cast-iron facades and gaslit

where cast-iron facades and gaslit marquees crowded a thoroughfare since rewritten by demolition crews

its octagonal superstructure and lantern-room geometry drawn by engineers who knew the harbor would test every rivet they specified

drawn when the university was still inventing its skyline

vintage-inspired designs

apprentices

The Huddled Masses of Mulberry Bend Frame Style:Canvas Wrap where cast-iron facades and gaslitThe Huddled Masses of Mulberry Bend a Jacob Riis era tableau of the Five Points' most notorious crook, where tenement laundry sagged above pushcarts and a thousand accents jostled for daylight. The photograph holds the Bend at its tightest curve, an immigrant Babel pressed into the bones of Lower Manhattan. About the Source Bella Frye sources NYC artifacts from American photographic archives, postcard collections, and period broadsides the press