From next week at 207 Clinton Street, Lost City, a photo essay of a memoir of New York City in the 1980s.

I found a treasure I had forgotten about for a third of a century.

Living in a seedy youth hostel in Sydney Australia the 1980s, the author visits the labour exchange and finds work making soap and boxes.

Britain, 1988: In a recession, landing a job, any job, is like winning the Lottery and that’s how I felt when the temping agency rang me....