Underground films recorded an ungentrified New York that no longer exists.

Evidence

However tiresome the movie’s over-articulated angst, one need only look through the two-dimensional drama to see a raw and heartfelt document, an homage to a sooty, ungentrified city and the hard rain falling on its earnest bohemian inhabitants. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 203

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s core thesis about artists as advance guard of gentrification — the ‘sooty, ungentrified’ New York is the baseline condition that enabled bohemian density.