I remember thinking how back in the 1930’s when the Bowery was a place were you could get a bed for 15¢ and a pastrami sandwich for 20¢ this would never happen. If you fell asleep with 40¢ in your hand, you woke up empty handed!

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Photographing NYC for 25 years, six of them while driving a New York City taxi. Trying very hard to capture the city as life unfolds, meaning I never stage any of my photos! Also I am a close confidant of the immortal Dave Beckerman, (quintessential NYC photographer) and owner of the first photography blog in the known universe.

3 thoughts on ““Cash in Hand” 1987”

  1. Mat, I may have commented on your work once before. Even so I have to say that you have the best photo essays of the city I’ve seen. I say this because I spent the first 26 years of my life living there and still have family in the area. I have some good memories of the Manhattan of the 60’s and 70’s and you’ve certainly captured the essence of it’s streets in your work. Fantastic!

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    1. Dean, that’s very kind of you to take the time to shower me with such kind words!
      If there’s anything that I was trying to do when I first bought my camera in 1984
      it was to try and save a piece of New York before it was gone forever…

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