Learn History Through Fiction: Before Today’s Trendy Food Carts

On New York City’s Lower East Side in the early 1900s, 2,500 pushcart peddlers haggled and sold every type of goods imaginable, including shirt collars and shoelaces, pots and pans, and vegetables and pretzels. Read more about the Lower East Side at the turn of the last century in On the Shore (see NOVELS).

 

 

Author: annsepstein@att.net

Ann S. Epstein is an award-winning writer of novels, short stories, memoirs, and essays.

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