If the economy doesn’t improve soon, the homeless population may increase to the levels of the 1980s when the rents almost tripled in just three years from 1982-1985…
© Matt Weber
Coney Island 2011
Street Photography © Matt Weber
Times Sq. 1985
Street Photography © Matt Weber
Canal Street 1988
A man leans on the remnants of a turn of the century lamppost and behind it is the city’s idea of a replacement…made out of PLYWOOD?
Street Photography © Matt Weber
Chelsea 2011
Street Photography © Matt Weber
Brooklyn Bridge Kodachrome 1985
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“East River Crossings” 1985
Kodachrome-64 not that it matters, or maybe it does…
© Matt Weber
Times Sq. 1985
© Matt Weber
Coney Island 2011
John Wayne Handy Jr. 46 years old. He was very upset and we were discussing why god has let him live, while just a day earlier god took the life of an eight year old boy. The boy was from Brooklyn and he was dismembered. He kept moaning “Why didn’t god take me instead” “I’m just a fucking Wino!” Yes, god was very busy rooting for the Yankees since he is also their pitching coach…
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Highline Hooker 1990
Street Photography © Matt Weber
Coney Island 2011
© Matt Weber
Summer 2011
My kid hates sports, so I’m trying to get her to take to the Frisbee in order to get a little exercise and also give me someone to play catch with. Most of my friends who claim to have been good Frisbee players, either suck or are world class masters…
© Matt Weber
Subway “Ascending” 2011
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Times Sq. 1990
Street Photography © Matt Weber
“Denny’s Ice Cream” Coney Island 2011
Street Photography © Matt Weber
“UNITED” 1988
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Downtown 2010
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The Rat Approaches 2001
I was at an exhibit in Chelsea during the summer of 2001 when I took this picture. Gunter Grass the famous German writer is also a pretty decent artist. This drawing of a giant rat approaching a city was the one I found most interesting and I decided to back up and include the World Trade Center. Now I find the picture more disturbing for obvious reasons…
© Matt Weber
Freedom Exhibit!
Chris Pape A.K.A. FREEDOM is having a solo show at “Dirty Pilot” starting Monday. He’s a famous artist because of a tunnel in Riverside Park, which was named after him. He did many amazing murals back in the 1980s and this exhibit will feature his work from the tunnel. I am fairly certain that much of it will be priced to sell based on previous exhibits that Dirty Pilot has had…
World Trade Center 1989
The search of my archives has allowed to me to find a few images which I don’t remember taking, but was very pleased to find!
Street Photography © Matt Weber
Times Sq. 2011
Street Photography © Matt Weber
Upper West Side 2011
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Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber 