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The Voice of Italian Anti-Fascism at 80 Fourth Avenue

By: LOUISA WINCHELL

Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the neighborhood south of Union Square was a hub for leftist and labor organizing, which manifested in a multitude of forms.

The Communist Party of the United States had headquarters at several buildings in the area; teachers, lithographers, transport, garment, packinghouse, steel mill, and automobile workers developed unions throughout these blocks; leftist bookstores, schools, theaters, and leading civil rights institutions were established; 

Source: https://www.villagepreservation.org/

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