You can see the Nathan’s on West 43d St. which had the venerable Times Square Bowling Alley upstairs. I bowled there a few times for 75¢ a game back in the late 1970s. Nathan’s french fries as we all know are just dripping in their grease which may be days if not weeks old. The Big Apple Porn theater would let you stay all day for $2.99 or as long as four flicks lasted…Who is this photographer? I don’t think it’s Eli Reed. Could it be Chester Higgins? I think he has one of those Quantum battery packs on his belt, which leads me to believe he was a press photographer…Oh well, he’s old school and was working the area at its seediest…
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Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber 
Lovely picture! Taken by you in -88? /J
Looks more like Chester Higgins than Eli Reed from this angle. Might be some AP or Reuters guy?! Different time for Times Square and photography…
Michael..I met Eli once and knew that it probably wasn’t him…I figured someone might know him, and it’s kinda fun to find things that are a “Needle in a Haystack”
Yeah I met him once too, around ’87 or ’88, on 6th Ave, I think. Nice man.
i met chester higgins and it does look like him – he’s in fort greene, probbly in the phone book…
Not a bad guess then…Thanks!