In 2013 I ventured into Brooklyn and Queens to do street photography. The first photograph of the abandoned trolley car was shown at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition show in … Continue reading
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Lunar New Year Parade 2022
Chinatown, New York The Lunar New Year Parade marking the Year of the Tiger took place again after the suspension in 2021 due to the pandemic. A smaller and more subdued event this year, it was still welcomed as another … Continue reading
Posted in 2022, holidays, Manhattan, New York, Parade
Tagged Chinatown, Christina Yuna Lee, drummer, lion dancers, Lunar New Year, Lunar New Year parade, Manhattan, memorial, Mural, New York, New York City, NYPD Marching Band, photography, Protesters, Senator Schumer, street art, street photography, Tiger, wall art, Year of the Tiger
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A Walk on Rivington Street
The Lower East Side of Manhattan is usually a lively neighborhood of young people, bars, restaurants, street art, and shopping. Not in 2020 in the midst of a pandemic, not even on the last Sunday before Christmas. Rivington Street was … Continue reading
Posted in 2020, Manhattan, New York
Tagged Economic distress, Graffiti, Lower East Side, murals, Pandemic, Rivington Street, Small business, Storefronts, street art
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Restaurant on East Houston Street, around 1990
Posted in Manhattan, New York
Tagged East Village, Houston Street, Kodachrome, Kodachrome 64, murals, street art, street photography, vintage
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Mural on the Lower East Side, 1992
Location unknown, but facing north toward the Chrysler Building and possibly Cooper Union. Artist unknown.
Posted in Manhattan, New York
Tagged murals, Puerto Rican flag, street art, street murals, vintage
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Moondance Diner
From the archive: the Moondance Diner on Sixth Avenue in Soho with an amazing mural in the background.
Posted in Manhattan, New York
Tagged diner, Kodachrome, murals, Soho, street art, street murals, vintage
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Farewell to the Decade
Personal favorites from the past decade as we prepare to ring in 2020.
Posted in Maine, Manhattan, New York
Tagged Bernie Sanders, blizzard, Fifth Avenue, flowers, Graffiti, magnolias, Maine, marathon, murals, reflections, snow, Store Windows, street art, Subway, summer solstice, Union Square
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Goya in Williamsburg
Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuniga, reimagined on a Brooklyn door, tagged with graffiti.
Posted in Brooklyn, New York
Tagged Brooklyn, Graffiti, graffiti art, New York City, street art, street photography, Williamsburg
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5 Pointz Gone
This gallery contains 8 photos.
Last night, under cover of darkness, the owner of the warehouse that served as New York City’s unofficial museum of graffiti for years brought in a team of painters who covered all of the art with whitewash. The artists awoke … Continue reading
5 Pointz Revisited
The museum of aerosol art called 5 Pointz in Long Island City, Queens is officially doomed to be demolished in the name of redevelopment. Luxury apartment towers will go up in its place. With this in mind I revisited my … Continue reading
Posted in New York
Tagged 5 Pointz, aerosol art, Graffiti, Long Island City, New York City, Queens, street art, street murals
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