The Bowery Without comment.

East 2nd Street (4×5 film) A spring picture–from a year ago, actually–but one that I’ve just gotten around to scanning. It shows the Bowery Hotel under construction, and a couple of pre-Civil War structures that survived the wave of tenement buildings that replaced most of the townhouses in the area. This picture was taken on […]

Brendan holding order buzzer at the Shake Shack Today was sunny and warm–the first really warm day of Spring. Brendan and I hit the Shake Shack in Madison Square Park beneath the Met Life clock and a stone’s throw from the Flatiron Building. The line was 15 minutes, but was twice as long when we […]

Williamsburg, Brooklyn I let my 9 year old son Brendan stay up and watch the ABC News Democratic debate because he has become interested in the campaign and wants to feel a part of what is going on. He is broadly familiar with the big issues like the war in Iraq, global warming, poverty, etc. […]

Flushing, Queens One of the reasons for visiting Flushing was to do a photograph for an article being written by my wife for a Dutch magazine on the sub-prime mortgage issue. She is an urban planner, currently working on the staff of Community Board 4 (Chelsea and the west side of Midtown). Most of the […]

The 7 train on the way to Flushing, Queens Shea Stadium (left) and Citi Field (right) I took the 7 train out to Flushing to scout a location for later photography. Along the way, I stopped at Shea Stadium where a new Mets stadium, Citi Field, is under construction. For a short period of time […]

I am hooked on a photo blog called Shorpy in which members post photographs from the 19th and first part of the 20th century. Some of the images are are from FSA photographers such as Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, and Jack Delano. There are over 200 Lewis Hine images on Shorpy, mostly of children working […]

Williamsburg, Brooklyn Without comment.

East Berlin 1987 (4×5 film) Continuing with photographs I made on several walks through Berlin Mitte before the Wall came down. The most obvious thing one noticed when crossing the border to East Berlin was the profound devastation still visible from World War II 42 years after the fact. The DDR had taken on a […]