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SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.

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Carl Andre
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: September 16
Artist
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Quincy
Massachusetts
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