The tenements are fading. yielding to the inevitability of the highrise. The old ethnic waves have climbed out of poverty and passed on. But still these few square miles are first homes to thousands of new immigrants and to those left from earlier waves unable or unwilling to change. As America soars into modernity and assimilation. can the people and the character of the lower East Side survive? ACT I In the flux of changing progress Americas immigrants sought from their new home. often the customs brought from the old country submerged. dissolved and were lost for ever. But here on the lower East Side of Manhattan. many things from many old countries survive. A bocci game on a Sunday afternoon is the focal point for Italians from what is known as Little Italyan island. comfortable and familiar in the caldron of the big city.
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