In the 1950s and 1960s, Coenties Slip was a vestige of old New York at the tip of Manhattan, overlooking the East River and in sight of the Brooklyn Bridge. Ignored by the neighbouring financial ...

This cover image released by Harper Collins Publishers shows "The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever" by Prudence Peiffer. (Harper Collins Publishers via AP) “The Slip,” ...