Samson Heights

Tiny homes, contd.

Gulliver Lane in Samson Heights was apparently not the only experiment with downsized housing in the Twentieth Century: Lilliputia was a Utopian city of midgets that prospered within the confines of Coney Island’s Dreamland before the whole amusement park burned down in 1911. From what we’ve researched this place makes Dogtown seem like Pleasantville....

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The tiny homes of Samson Heights

The tiny homes of Samson Heights

After years of deterioration, the Samson Heights area has seen a resurgence in recent years, as people move father down river, after having been priced out of the Downtown and surrounding areas. What in the mid-eighties was a run-down collection of crumbling buildings and abandoned storefronts has become a thriving neighborhood where families and...

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