Pissed-Off Photographer: Lhota Stole My Gritty NYC Picture For His Pandering Ad
“Until things change, stay away from New York City if you possibly can.”
Fact: Some neighborhoods are always cool.
These images are from the city’s Department of Records (by way of the Daily Mail); the city released 870,000 unseen photographs earlier this year after four years of digitizing. Anyone can search through them and, from what I’ve seen so far, they’re incredible–everything from Salignac images of painters atop the Brooklyn Bridge to crime scene documents. Some of the […]
South Bronx Camilo José Vergara/Library Of Congress The photographer and documentarian Camilo José Vergara uses photographs as “a means of discovery, as a tool
The city's Department of Records has digitized more than 870,000 photos that date back to the mid-1800s taken by city engineers, photographers and police detectives.
In the 1970s, New York City was a broken, ungovernable metropolis barreling into anarchy. New Yorkers remember this decade as the bleakest, most crime-ridden, and most uncertain time the city…
A new exhibit looks at a dozen Brutalist buildings created for the Mitchell-Lama housing program
The city's Department of Records has digitized more than 870,000 photos that date back to the mid-1800s taken by city engineers, photographers and police detectives.
What the 1977 NYC blackout looked like from the streets
The city's Department of Records has digitized more than 870,000 photos that date back to the mid-1800s taken by city engineers, photographers and police detectives.
Rebecca Lepkoff Lower East Side, New York City c.1945
In October 1977, Mats Örn flew in to London from his native Sweden. He landed at Stanstead Airport to the east of the city in Essex, a wartime airfield serving the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces converted into a commercial airport. Mats then took a coach into the city. After … Continue reading "Brilliant Kodachrome Photos Of London In October 1977"
Fact: Some neighborhoods are always cool.
A great glance at the village in the early 60s.
Once forbidden from speaking their native language, Navajo troops developed an unbreakable code from it.
In the 1970s, New York City was a broken, ungovernable metropolis barreling into anarchy. New Yorkers remember this decade as the bleakest, most crime-ridden, and most uncertain time the city…
Greenwich village New York city is one of the most interesting cities in the world. It's filled with amazing stories of dreams and struggles...
The city's Department of Records has digitized more than 870,000 photos that date back to the mid-1800s taken by city engineers, photographers and police detectives.
For obvious reasons, it’s easy to think of the great American folksinger/songwriter Woody Guthrie as a lifelong hardscrabble dust bowl Okie, but the reality is, the man called New York City home for nearly three decades, from 1940 until his death in 1967. Of course, that was at a time when lower Manhattan, especially Greenwich Village, was an urban bohemia, a haven and incubator for America’s artists and musicians. Those times are gone—I’m in NYC at least once a year, and every year, more and more of the Village looks like it’s been eaten by a strip mall. So it goes, but the character of what’s been lost there may be irreplaceable, as a startlingly rapid gentrification is eating into every once-affordable art enclave in that fabled city. I realize that the emergence of an arts district often heralds gentrification—I’ve long lived in such a neighborhood myself, and seen firsthand those kinds of changes, for better and worse—but from an outsider’s perspective, what’s been happening to NYC, especially the northern part of Brooklyn in the last several years, seems unusual and kind of alarming in speed and scope. So...
Fact: Some neighborhoods are always cool.
In the 1970s, New York City was a broken, ungovernable metropolis barreling into anarchy. New Yorkers remember this decade as the bleakest, most crime-ridden, and most uncertain time the city…
The city's Department of Records has digitized more than 870,000 photos that date back to the mid-1800s taken by city engineers, photographers and police detectives.
The city's Department of Records has digitized more than 870,000 photos that date back to the mid-1800s taken by city engineers, photographers and police detectives.
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