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These photos show how drastically Manhattan's Financial District has evolved since the '70s

Sarah JacobsNov 12, 2016, 22:22 IST

Brian Rose

Manhattan has changed greatly in the past 40 years - the once drug and crime-ridden streets of the Lower East Side are now filled with luxury high rise apartments and retail shops.

Photographer Brian Rose has been documenting that change since the late 1970s. Focusing his camera on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Rose documented the Financial District with a careful eye.

His new book, "WTC," is a collection of images taken between 1977 to present day that are an ode to the World Trade Center.

Ahead, 29 images that show the dramatic change the Financial District has endured since then.