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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Photographer 2014
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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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Tunnel Probers 2013
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Self Portrait 1988
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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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Weightlifter Coney Island 2013
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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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NYC 2005 (Super-Crop)
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“But its not a Swastika!” (Super-Crop)
Yeah, I know it’s a Hindu symbol to you, but here in New York there are still thousands of people who see something far worse than your cute little piece of jewelry…
That’s why I took your picture!
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West 86th Street 2004 (Super-Crop)
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Subway Super-Crop 2007
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“Working Girl” 1985 (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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Dusk
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“Edgecombe Hotel” Harlem 1986
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Guggenheim “Cropped”
This is the cropped version which I always thought looked better.
Perhaps I was mistaken…
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The Guggenheim 1987
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“ALI…S.A.” TIMES SQ. 1986
The one and only, ALI!
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Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber 