Museum of Complaint
The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Matthew Bakkom culled New York City’s municipal archives to create New York City: Museum of Complaint, a collection of 122 letters to mayors of New York—from Edward Holland in the 1750s to John Lindsay in the late 1960s. The book reproduces the original letters, from those carefully handwritten with pen and ink to scrawled notes to typewritten pages that portray the voices and complaints of New Yorkers past.
