Most people my age can remember going to one of these automats with their parents or grandparents. The pies were famous for being edible, where as their sandwiches sucked. There were revolving tables inside the machines which were a lot of fun for a kid to operate. Back in the 1920’s when H & H restaurants were popping up all over the city, many of the treats were probably just 5¢…

I always have to stop from waxing poetic about the good old days, for fear of sounding like Glen Beck (The schmuck on CNN)

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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.

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