Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber

February 14, 2015March 29, 2015 Matt Weber (Street photography), Color, homeless, Kids & Teens, Old New York, Urban Landscape

“Alphabet City” 1986

This image and most others can be licensed for documentary use and is also available as a signed print…

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February 13, 2015February 13, 2015 Matt Weber (Street photography), Cars & Buses, Color, Old New York

FORD Maverick parked in front of S.O.B.’s 1986

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February 12, 2015March 29, 2015 Matt Weber (Street photography), Harlem, Old New York

“Ghostbusters HQ” Harlem 1985

Another find from ’85 but this time in good old B&W…

This image and most others can be licensed for documentary use and is also available as a signed print…

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February 12, 2015February 12, 2015 Matt Weber (Street photography), Color, Old New York, signs, Times Square

I shot a few rolls of Ektachrome and some of the older rolls have faded badly. Maybe the sign was so vivid that the emulsion still held enough of the original colors to look decent thirty years later…

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February 12, 2015February 12, 2015 Matt Weber (Street photography), America, Color

Ticker Tape Parade for the 1986 Mets

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February 11, 2015February 11, 2015 Matt Weber (Street photography), Color, Old New York, Urban Landscape

“Red, White and Blue” 1985

Another Kodachrome slide from ’85 which depicts the big gas tank in Queens, or at least I think it does. I was robbed at double gunpoint just a couple of blocks away in ’84…

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February 11, 2015February 11, 2015 Matt Weber (Street photography), Cars & Buses, Color, Old New York, Urban Landscape

“Red Corvette Diner” 1986

I remember driving down the west side highway one day and saying “Oh Shit, look at that!” Someone bought a ’65 Vette and placed the stripped beauty on top of that old diner. I never went to the place despite the fact that I liked Doo-Wop more than most people I knew…

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February 10, 2015March 29, 2015 Matt Weber (Street photography), Color, Old New York, signs

ROSELAND 1985

The last time I was here, Big Audio Dynamite was playing and I was disappointed by the sound, but I’m not much of an expert in these things…

This image and most others can be licensed for documentary use and is also available as a signed print…

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February 9, 2015February 9, 2015 Matt Weber Cars & Buses, Old New York, signs

Williamsburg 1985

This old porcelain sign had started to fade from decades of sunlight, but I’m sure the lamp post it was attached to was much older. More info on this can be found at Forgotten New York

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February 8, 2015February 8, 2015 Matt Weber (Street photography), 9/11 Related, Cars & Buses

“Omen” 1985

Weird what we photograph sometimes…

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February 8, 2015February 8, 2015 Matt Weber (Street photography), America, Cars & Buses, Old New York, Urban Landscape

“The Concorde Lands” 1985

One day I dropped someone off at JFK and decided to go to nearby Gateway park and just sit there and wait. British Airways and Air France were the only companies flying Concordes and I knew I might be waiting for a long time. It looked so different, and really was a beautiful bird as it landed…I don’y fly but I would’ve liked to have gone for a ride on that plane. I think a one way ticket to London was at least $5,000 but maybe it was $10k, I forget.

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