"A real lost New York" -- East 7th Street looking toward the East River from Avenue D on the Lower East Side of Manhattan (or East Village), April 14, 1941. Nearly 18 acres of businesses and sturdy Old Law tenements (1879-1901) like these -- as well as decrepit buildings -- were knocked down and replaced by Jacob Riis Houses on the East River and Avenue D from East 6th to East 13th Streets. Opened in 1949 this huge project has 19 buildings housing 4,300 people. The adjacent 1949 Wald Houses has 16 buildings covering 16.5 acres and housing 4,500. ID# 02.002.02542