A picture of my old house on West 86th Street…
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New York City Taxi 1989
A guy named Ted Croner took a picture of a NYC taxi back in the late ’40s which was blurred due to the cab’s speed and probably the slow film he was using. The picture is amazing. This one isn’t, but is the closest thing I can post as an homage to Croner…
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“Gypsy Cab” 1989
Ah yes, another Checker cab for your consumption…
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NYC 1998
I’ve been shooting “three of a kind” forever…
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“Mid City Still Life” 2010
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West 86th Street & Broadway 1989
Another Checker cab? I know, I tend to focus on the most mundane things sometimes…
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NYC 1985
This might be Queens Blvd. not that it matters. I love the past too much. The cheap gas, the Porcelain Pegasus and the old cars which had bumpers on the front and also on the rear. Does anyone remember bumpers? Chrome coated steel which was ready to absorb impact without crumbling like a fuckin’ potato chip…
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“The Deuce” 1985
I think since I’ve got a million categories already, I will put pictures of “The Deuce” A.K.A. 42d Street between 7th & 8th Avenues, in the Times Sq. category. I wonder why I ever got on this bus. I never took the bus when I was a cabdriver, but evidently I did…
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“DAMAGED” 2008
I didn’t realize that I had so many bus related images, but I’ve just about run out of them. I don’t need to mention to anyone who knows me, what Walker Evans has meant to me as an inspiration. He just shot everything that I’d like to think I would have tried to, if I’d been born fifty years earlier…
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Coney Island 2009
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“Pinstriped Passenger” 2008
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Madison Ave. 2008
I spent a summer on the upper east side and I actually took the bus a few times. I wonder if you can still tell the difference between the women who grew up on the east side and those from the west side. It use to be pretty obvious back in the 1970’s…
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“To Catch a Stinking Bus” 2008
While watching the “Bus”people scampering towards their destiny, I was forced to ingest a lifetime’s worth of diesel fumes. I’d beg the drivers to shut off their engines, but they were scared that they wouldn’t start again, and rarely complied with my wishes. Of course I was often sitting on my stoop with a Montecristo in my mouth, so I guess I couldn’t expect much sympathy…
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“Running to catch the bus” 2007
I use to sit on my stoop and watch my neighbors run to catch the crosstown bus which left every five minutes. I know I’ve said this too many times, but not being one of these clock punching workers is one of the things I am very grateful for…
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NYC 2008
I don’t like to ride the bus very much. The subways are much faster and I guess I still feel some sort of nostalgic allegiance to the trains…
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“Mother’s Love” 2008
Hey, If I had more of these I’d keep posting them all day long…
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“Mother’s Love” 2008
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“Mother’s Love” NYC 2007
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NYC 2009
I might as well put the bus pictures in a little group since I don’t have enough of them to start a new category…(OK…I did add the bus pictures to the car category)
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“Crosstown Traffic” 2009
For some reason I find taking someone’s picture on a bus harder than working on the subway…
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“On The Road” 1992
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NYC 2005
Being a sucker for the tailfin cars of the late 1950s and early 1960s I always try and capture them when they are in traffic. The master of such matters is a photographer named Ray Metzker who took the best picture of these beasts, back in their heyday…
Central Park 1987
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Harlem 1988
Yet another Checker taxi cab…I must have had a one track mind or something…
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Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber 
