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“The Roxy Twin” 42d Street 1985
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“Harlem 25 Years Ago”
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“Sleeping Bear” 1990 (New Scan)
An old Fave….
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“Reason to be Cheerful” Harlem 1985
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“Makeshift Playground” Harlem 1987
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Chico Says “Just Say No!” 1987
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Harlem Wall 1988
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“Higher Goals” DVD Case
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“Power at Last…Forever!” Harlem 1986
The Starlight Bar must have had a few interesting moments in it over the years…
Scroll down for details, and yes I can sell you a very nice print of this image.
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“1964 FALL OCCUPANCY” Times Sq. 1986
During the later years of Robert Moses New York lost Penn Station and that was a great loss. In or around 1962 this small and seemingly inconsequential building was also slated for demolition, but somehow survived for another quarter century! I was thrilled when I saw this sign predicting the demise of this small structure. Even if I felt like the little building was Davey vs. Goliath, it really was just a case of something old surviving against the odds for a few more years than it was suppose to…
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“Social Security” Harlem 1986
Harlem was still Harlem and the “47%” came here.
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“By Any Means Necessary” Harlem 1987 (New Scan)
I remember being so excited when I took this torn poster shot of Malcolm X. Wow, I was into something cool and cutting edge…Shortly thereafter I bought a copy Walker Evans American photographs and saw his “Minstrel Showbill” picture from 50 years earlier, and got bitchslapped back to reality…
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“Flats To Let” South Bronx 1987 (New Scan)
I finally found this negative and rescanned this image which has always been one of my better “Urban Blight” pictures…
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“Homeless in Harlem” 1989
Hard times back then, but all of a sudden the homeless population has surged and is approaching the levels I remember seeing when I drove a taxi in the 1980s…
“CBGB” The Bowery 1986
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“Have a Pepsi” Harlem 1987
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“Two Stores No Longer Open” Harlem 1986
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“Wasteland” 1986
I finally made a decent scan of this old timer surveying what once was his town…
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“Bruce” L.I.C. New York 1990
Bruce was a great mechanic…He disappeared twenty years ago and was never seen again. He owed some people a lot of dough…Oh well.
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The Bowery 1988
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Park Ave. Hotel 1986
Park Ave. north of 96th Street has always been a different world, but at one point it was as run down as any street in Manhattan…
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“CLOSED!” Harlem 1986
An old fave…
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Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber 