The selected images in this book reflect the East Harlem community in the postwar years, which would later grow into a centre of Puerto Rican culture and life in the US. From the families portrayed gathering on stoops, to the kids at their shoeshine stations, to youths playing ball, to anti-war posters on neighbourhood walls, Goldstein's images of East Harlem provide windows into the socio-economic, cultural and political landscapes of the time.