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 [...]
Snapshots from the Back Room (of Ruby’s Bar and Grill)
Now, I know I haven’t posted in awhile . . . but I’ve been busy. I’ll have a proper post [...]
NYC Marathon – Take Two
Like last year, I watched it in front of the Lafayette Garden projects on Lafayette Ave. Last year, there was [...]
1920′s New York: the first Jazz Age
I’ve long had a fascination with the New York depicted in the Great Gatsby. Not nearly so important a city [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Slideshow – Detroit
Seems the slide show I was trying out has a traffic limit. The traffic limit was reached and the slideshow [...]
All the world and my neighborhood
At eleven am last week my neighbors and I gathered for a group shot on a stoop in the sun [...]
NY in the 70′s
Photo: Allen Tannenbaum I’ve been busy with out of town guests and this curious (and lately very rare) thing called [...]
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.
