It Happened One Weekend: NYC's Bathhouses; Curbed Editor Buys in Crown Heights

The newly renovated rec center on West 60th Street has been open for almost a year now, but what was there before it? Christopher Gray takes us back to the turn-of-the-century, when public baths ruled New York, a wave of reform culminating in 1914 with twenty active bathhouses in all boroughs except filthy, stinking Staten Island .

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