People from Breezy Point, the Rockaways, Staten Island and other affected areas brought photos to a weekend event hosted by the School of Visual Art of New York.

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While Tate Britain is showing his most famous industrial scenes, many of the Lowry's exhibits are art school sketches, preparatory drawings or visual aid memoires he made on scraps of paper while walking the streets of Salford and Manchester.

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