Smog in the Manhattan borough of New York on Nov 24, 1966. — ©️2023 The New York Times Company
IN January 1912, in the depths of a New York City winter, an unusual new apartment complex opened on the Upper East Side.
The East River Homes were designed to help poor families fend off tuberculosis – a fearsome, airborne disease – by turning dark, airless tenements inside out.
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