The Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps and the alumni of the Colonial Williamsburg Fifes and Drums — arrow points at me. Despite my failed attempts at a songwriting career, I remain a good, if largely unknown, song poet. It sounds a little grandiose, but it’s a craft I have taken seriously for many years. […]

Fire Island — © Brian Rose Got invited to Fire Island on a fiery hot day in New York. It was considerably cooler at the beach. Ended the day as the sun set on the Lonelyville annual picnic.

Ludlow Street and Delancey — © Brian Rose I’ve taking the book around–Time and Space on the Lower East Side. The response has been positive, even enthusiastic. Have sold six books, and could place them on consignment at St. Mark’s Books and the Tenement Museum shop. But with the store markup the price is a […]

Pierrepont Family Memorial, Green-Wood Cemetery — © Brian Rose Designed by Richard Upjohn, architect of Trinity Church and the entrance gate to Green-Wood. From the Green-Wood website: Henry Evelyn Pierrepont was known as the “first citizen” of Brooklyn for good reason. He, along with his father Hezekiah B. and mother Anna Maria before him, played […]

Green-Wood Cemetery — © Brian Rose Last week I was In Green-Wood cemetery.

Since uploading my book to Blurb last week, I’ve gotten some welcome publicity for Time and Space on the Lower East Side. Here are some blogs that have taken note: EV Grieve, 1st post EV Grieve, 2nd post City Room, the New York Times Time and Space on the Lower East Side is a project […]

I’ve been walking mornings between Williamsburg and the Lower East Side. Williamsburg Bridge — © Brian Rose Williamsburg Bridge — © Brian Rose

The Shrine, 2000 by Robert Buck — © Brian Rose I visited four or five of the LES galleries participating in Lush Life, a multi-gallery exhibition based on the chapters of Richard Prices crime novel. Although the book is first and foremost a story built on dialogue and character, over the length of the novel, […]

Rivington and Allen Street — © Brian Rose An interesting review in Friday’s Times about a multi-gallery group show based on the chapters of Richard’s Price’s book Lush Life, a crime novel set in the Lower East Side. Nine galleries and nine book chapters. Hope to take a look at some of the exhibits later […]

Time and Space on the Lower East Side I am still working on finding a outlet for this project–both exhibition and publisher. In the meantime, I have put together this book using Blurb. Click above for a preview. Let me know what you think. Both my Blurb books–Berlin: In from the Cold, and this one–are […]

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Miami on the East River.

Left: Economist cover with doctored photo. Center: Undoctored photo (Larry Downing/Reuters). Right: Undoctored photo superimposed on cover. Once again, another Photoshop nightmare. The Economist cropped and cloned a perfectly good image in order to achieve dramatic effect for their cover story on Obama and the BP oil spill. In a way it’s no big deal–no […]

Fulton Street — © Brian Rose Wearing my flag tie on the 4th.

Ground Zero construction — © Brian Rose The weather broke yesterday after days of temps in the 90s, so I decided to go down to the World Trade Center site for another round of photographs. This is my fourth or fifth visit with the view camera. The biggest difficulty for me is that there are […]

Astor Place — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Brendan and photo at PS 3 — © Brian Rose My son Brendan has just completed elementary school at PS 3 in the West Village, and we’re pleased that he will be attending the NYC Lab School in the fall. Our experience at PS 3 has been extraordinary, beginning with second grade when we arrived […]

Pole Dance, PS 1 — © Brian Rose Went to the opening at PS 1 in Long Island City of Pole Dance, by Florian Idenburg and Jin Liu, SO – IL (Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu) winner of the 2010 MoMA Young Architects Program.

Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Without comment.