May Day: A Walk through the Village
Walking around Sunday afternoon May Day, 2011 through the East Village. Stop by the Mars Bar. Reflect on the 80′s. Wake up in the morning to find Bin Laden is dead.
Looking back at ‘Gringo: Story of a Junkie’
Photo: Urban Photos I wrote about Gringo some months ago but the film-maker, my old pal Lech Kowalski, yanked the [...]
Shots of Old New York
Reader Chris send these in. From the Selvedge Yard: Incredible shots of the poverty in the Lower East Side in [...]
Escape From New York
I watched John Carpenter’s 1981 ‘Escape From New York’ last week for the first time in many years, possibly since [...]
Sunday Video: Times Square Past
More Jerry Rio: Music video for “Mini-bar’, by Jerry’s old band ‘Sunshine Highway. A fascinating tour of day night-time Times [...]
Video Sunday: Random Shots of 80′s New York
Maybe because this is when I first came to New York – an Indian summer weekend, October 1989 – I [...]
Video Sunday: Graffiti
A short film documenting the amazing graffiti – possibly the first one – that used to decorate the NYC subway [...]
Sunday Videos: New York in the 70′s and 80′s
In the interest of revivifying my fading memory I’ve been searching through Youtube for scenes of the New York I [...]
Smoking in Bars
The ability to smoke in bars was not confined to New York. But the subject came to mind recently after [...]
New York in the 1980′s
A New York that has almost disappeared now: From Sensitive Skin Magazine Issue #3,Ted Barron’s photographs of the Lower East [...]
Pilgrims: A Novel
'Pilgrims' is set in 1991 New York. The background is New York at the end of the First Gulf War, with the crack epidemic raging across the city, and the beginning of the East Village's gentrification. The first chapter can be seen in Sensitive Skin Magazine.
