We walked the High LIne on Christmas Day with relatives visiting from out of town. It was a relatively mild day with sun and clouds, the low slanting light of late December. The plantings on the High Line at this time of year are mostly brown with bits of color here and there, holly bushes […]

Bedford and N7th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose It’s all one big holiday mash-up this year. Christmas: December 25, Hanukkah: December 20-28, Kwanzaa: December 26-January 1. A veritable Roman-style Saturnalia.    

West 43rd Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.    

Morning walk… Essex Street — © Brian Rose Allen Street — © Brian Rose Allen Street — © Brian Rose Stanton Street/Sarah D. Roosevelt Park — © Brian Rose    

Czech/Austrian border 1987 (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose It is with great sadness that I note the passing of Vaclav Havel, playwright, political dissident, and former president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. When I traveled the Iron Curtain in 1985 and 1987, Havel and others who resisted the communist/Soviet hegemony of eastern Europe, […]

Stanton Street — © Brian Rose Stanton Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.    

Photographing the Lower East Side | Make Your Own Book I just completed teaching a class at ICP (International Center of Photography) called Photographing New York: The Lower East Side. It was a class based on photographing the neighborhood and then assembling a book of our work. I knew this would be a challenging class […]

34th Street — © Brian Rose Tis the season.    

Park Place — © Brian Rose Friday evening I walked down to the World Trade Center with an invitation to the 48th floor of 7 WTC, the first completed structure in the rebuilding post 9/11. Silverstein Properties, the owner, has made the 48th floor available as an artists’ studio, though soon the occupants will have […]

Barclay Street — © Brian Rose 4pm–a block away from the World Trade Center.    

The Bowery — © Brian Rose Without comment.    

Allen Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.    

Final cover design of Time and Space on the Lower East Side Time and Space on the Lower East Side is now complete and on its way to the printer in Germany. My publisher tried to get a printer in New York, but none offered the price/quality proportion desired. It’s a sad testimony to American […]

Van Cortlandt Park — © Brian Rose Quotes from the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation website: The Wiechquaskeck Lenapes occupied this site when, in 1639, the Dutch East India Company brought the first Europeans to settle in the Bronx. In 1646, Dutchman Adriaen Van Der Donck (1620-1655) became the first single owner […]