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Monte Carlo 1988
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“Chelsea Warehouse” Harlem 1985
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Volkswagen 1988
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West 86th Street 1986
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Harlem 1986
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“Malted Milk” 1987
To each his own, but Malted Milk was the worst flavor ever invented! Why have rotten curdled milk when chocolate was an option? I do miss the days when you could buy an Egg Cream anywhere in this town for 35¢…
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Automat Sign 1986
I wish I had photographed this sign in Kodachrome, but I also wish the sign had been saved. Maybe it is in some museum…We all remember the Horn & Hardart’s which were all over town back in the old days, but the truth is, the food wasn’t very good! People rave about the pies but I think the “Delivery System” was what people are getting all misty over. Putting a few coins in the slot and then having your food’s little window open up, was all the fun, not eating the soggy tuna sandwich…
This image can be purchased for little more than a slice of cheesecake…
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72d Street & West End Ave. 1987
I bought my first candy bars here in 1963 for 5¢!
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“Checker Taxi” Boathouse Parking Lot 1987
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“Store For Sale” The Bronx 1986
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Basketball Court Bronx 1987
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And Moses said, “Let There be Traffic, Forever!”
I love old signs. The Cross Bronx Expressway has had traffic problems for as long as I can recall. This sign may have predated the “parking lot” which it became, but I guess without it, things would even be worse…
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The New York Cancer Hospital 1986
For over a quarter century, this old building sat vacant, except for a few homeless people who camped there. Fortunately the landmarks commission saved the building which has forty foot wide circular towers. Apparently Teddy Roosevelt’s throat cancer had a lot to do with the building being built. Cancer was finally being recognized as a major issue, and the building served those afflicted till 1955 when it found modern facilities elsewhere, as Sloan Kettering…
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“HOTEL” Harlem 1986
This image may have been one of my biggest oversights, as I continue combing my archive for lost New York…
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Pigeon Harlem 1986 (New Scan)
One of my first “Photographs”.
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Upper West Side 1986
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“Higher Goals” Harlem 1987
This is the long view of the artists attempt to persuade kids that there should be other and higher goals than playing in the NBA…
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“Urban Blight” 1986
Just found this one and it’s the perfect example of how bad things were at one point. This picture is one of the best I took that year and I am amazed that I never noticed it before…
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Survivor 2007 (Super-Crop)
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“10¢ to Play” Coney Island 1986
I like cropping a few of my pictures to the point where I’m using the equivalent of a single frame of Super-8 film…
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“Checker Taxi” Hell’s Kitchen 1986
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“The Tree” 1986
This stoop was located in midtown somewhere between 1st and 3d Ave. I assume the building was around 100 years old and the tree maybe took root a few years later. I’ve seen trees grow through and around metal fences plenty of times, but this was the most incredible example. I doubt it’s still there, but I haven’t checked in a long time…
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“Edgecombe Hotel” Harlem 1986
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Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber 