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14th Street & 3d Ave. 1990
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Upper West Side 2014
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Freedom 2014
Happy 4th of July!
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23d Street 2003
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Sutton Place 1987
This was a perfect example of how bad things were in New York during the ’80s. Sutton Place is one of the most prestigious addresses in the city and the canopy was like this for months. Even the high rents these “poor” folks paid couldn’t keep their building in tip top shape.
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Yonkers N.Y. 1998
I am rescanning my images from “The Urban Prisoner” for an I-Pad version. This chore has dragged on and on, as finding over 100 negatives is harder than I thought. A few were not segregated from Gen Pop and have been a real bitch to find…
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Somewhere in Queens I think…1987
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Riverside Park 1986
I think I photographed these benches as they were the perfect symbol of New York’s decline in the 1980’s. The parks were so unsafe that you might have been better off staying home, but in this case if you were willing to risk it, you couldn’t even find a place to read your paper…
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September 2001
I remember taking this picture on the weekend of the 8th of September just a couple of days before the massacre downtown. I like the photo very much, as perhaps it’s the last nice moment I captured before the world changed forever…
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“Junk Man” Harlem 1988
I never was able to make a perfect print of this image and now 26 years later, I think this scan will be able to pull it off…
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West 84th Street 1989
An old fave…
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“The Urban Prisoner” 1989 (New Scan)
If any of my images were overdue for a good scanning, this one was…
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“Peace Sign” Columbus Circle 1987
The last traces of my childhood…
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“FREE SEX…FREE AIDS” 1986
A reminder of some bad times in New York…
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Harlem 1986
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“Store For Sale” The Bronx 1986
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Basketball Court Bronx 1987
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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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“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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“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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The Guggenheim 1987
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“New Home for the Urban Prisoner” 1989
I don’t remember where this awful looking building is, but I assume it was meant to incarcerate the new exploding population of crack-Heads that were making NYC a real drag back in ’89…
If I am wrong and this is a condo with slits for windows, then I wasn’t keeping up with the latest real estate trends…
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“West Side Highway” 2013
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Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber 