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New York at Home: Photos from <i>America at Home</i>

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Dave Hogarty

Published May 20, 2008

Modified May 20, 2008

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Toward Mecca. Faithful Muslims break their Ramadan fast with the evening Maghrib prayer and meal at Makky Masjid, a small mosque in the lobby of an apartment building in Morrisania, a diverse neighborhood of West Africans and Dominicans in the South Bronx. Constrained by the limited space, the overflow crowd of Ramadan observers spills out onto the sidewalk with their prayer mats.

 

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Published May 20, 2008

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Perhaps now more than ever, New York City residents create homes for themselves in vastly different ways. Are there any bad neighborhoods anymore? Or are there just places that immigrants and long-time residents subsist next to high-rise hotels and luxury condos?

It's a question not limited to NYC, especially as people are being ejected from their McMansions and middle class homes in the current mortgage meltdown. Presciently, photographer Rick Smolan and his partner Jennifer Erwitt recently published a book called "America At Home." It's a sprawling examination of American domesticity--indoors and outdoors. Below are some examples from the book of New Yorkers at Home.

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