During the decades Clarence Elie-Rivera spent living and photographing on the Lower East Side, he watched it go from rough to rich.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/26/lower-east-side-story/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog
But the rough-and-tumble days were never far from Clarence Elie-Rivera’s mind. Having moved to the area in the 1970s, when his block on Ludlow Street was lined with abandoned buildings and full of heroin dealers, he spent more than two decades photographing the changes that swept over the neighborhood.