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Matt Kapp

Matt Kapp
Matt Kapp is the author of the new book A Century Downtown: A Visual History of Lower Manhattan (powerHouse) and has written frequently for vanityfair.com on a range of subjects from health-care industry profiteering to dating apps. He has also been a contributor to Downtown magazine and written proposals, treatments, narration, and web content for documentaries and series for Showtime, HBO, and PBS.


When Robert Moses Wiped Out New York’s ‘Little Syria’

What Happened to the Former Main Street of Syrian America
February 28, 2020  By Matt Kapp
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