Skid row
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A skid row, also called skid road, is an impoverished area, typically urban, in English-speaking North America whose inhabitants are mostly poor people "on the skids". This specifically refers to peop
A mural of Skid Row, Los Angeles
Tents of homeless people on the sidewalk in Skid Row, Los Angeles
Mill Street, now Yesler Way, was the original "Skid Road" in Seattle, Washington.
People playing chess by Market and Turk Streets.
Bowery
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The Bowery is a street and neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City, New York. The street runs from Chatham Square at Park Row, Worth Street, and Mott Street in the south to Cooper Square at 4
Skid row
…Old Town Chinatown in Portland, Oregon; Downtown Eastside in Vancouver; Skid Row in Los Angeles; the Tenderloin District of San Francisco; and the Bowery of Lower Manhattan. The term Poverty Flats is used for some Western US towns. The term "skid row" may often be interchangeable with the term tent city…
Looking north from Houston Street
The Bowery Lodge, one of the last remaining flophouses on the Bowery, and a contributing property to the district
Bowery circa 1900s, showing the tracks of the Third Avenue Elevated
The Bull's Head Tavern in the Bowery, 1801 – c. 1860