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“In 1967 over sixty acres of buildings of Lower Manhattan were demolished,” writes Danny Lyon in his 1969 publication of the photographic series, The Destruction of Lower Manhattan. With a tinge of nostalgia and an eye for the poetic, Lyon dedicated months to recording Lower Manhattan’s dilapidated but dignified buildings before they were erased to make way for New York city planner Robert Moses’s plans for urban renewal. “For a hundred years they have stood in the darkness and the day. In the morning the sun has shined on their one side, and in the evening on another. Now, in the end, they are visited by demolition men.”