Atlantic City — © Brian Rose Pauline’s Prairie During the mid to late 1960s, Atlantic City’s housing czar, Pauline Hill, dismantled an entire neighborhood to make way for commercial development. Eighty acres in the city’s South Inlet section were razed. Forty-five-hundred people were displaced. But development, in large part at least, never came. In the […]

Former Trump Taj Mahal — © Brian Rose The grand staircase to the Trumpian realm — now stripped of its onion domes and minarets. Atlantic City continues to bank on casinos as the way out of urban blight and crime. It hasn’t worked so far. Donald Trump wrote “The Art Of The Deal,” but it […]

Atlantic City — © Brian Rose An MRI of America.

Atlantic City — © Brian Rose Back in Atlantic City…

The Oyster Bar, Grand Central Terminal — © Brian Rose There is no more essential New York experience than having an oyster stew or pan roast in the Oyster Bar in Grand Central. If you sit at the counter along the north wall you can watch your stew prepared in front of you. It all […]

The Bowery and Delancey Street — © Brian Rose The Bowery has been known for a long time as the restaurant supply and lighting district of New York. Manhattan used to have many such concentrations of businesses, often with their wares spilling out onto the sidewalks. Does anyone remember dodging rolling clothing racks in the […]

The Bowery and Spring Street — © Brian Rose Don’t stare too long at this picture — can’t guarantee the bright orange won’t cause retinal damage.

The Bowery — © Brian Rose Just a few doors from the cacophonous corner of Delancey Street and the Bowery, I came across George Versailles, a store displaying lots of gold encrusted furniture and glittering chandeliers. The faux opulence, the forced élegance. It vaguely reminded me of something. Oh yes… Donald Trump apartment, Trump Tower — […]

The Bowery and Delancey Street — © Brian Rose Not many know this, but  Hitler was obsessed with inflicting direct damage to the United States, and had plans to drop a nuclear bomb on New York. Ground zero was this exact corner — the Bowery and Delancey — equidistant between Downtown and Midtown. Fortunately, the […]

Pell Street and Bowery — © Brian Rose Grand Street and Bowery — © Brian Rose The Bowery — © Brian Rose The Bowery — © Brian Rose Continuing my walk up the Bowery. Chinatown extends farther north than ever. There’s a lot of construction, but it’s hard to know which way things are going. […]

Hester and Bowery — © Brian Rose I was down on lower Broadway and decided to walk back to my studio by way of the Bowery. At Hester Street, in the heart of Chinatown I came across Who’s Next, a mural by Otto Schade, which depicts a bald eagle comprised of guns. Its talons grasp […]

Kassel Dummy Award submissions I have rarely been successful at grant submissions or competitions. It’s a good thing I haven’t waited around for such accolades, financial or otherwise. I would never have done any of my Iron Curtain/Berlin wall project. And none of my independent book projects would have seen the light of day. Certainly […]

down the darkening street I have seen my fortunes fall, rise, and fall again I have walked the painted line to where the highway ends tunnels burrow through the earth burrow through the pain rumble through the underground the rumor of trains let me show you what we’ve built, staggering and steep let me show […]

West 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue — © Brian Rose Thunder and lightening, torrential rain, then gradual brightening. Walking through steam clouds after teaching my class at the International Center of Photography. Downtown, Stormy Daniels, Trump’s porn dalliance appeared in Federal court, along with Trump’s slimy mister fixit Michael Cohen. Hilarity ensued. Somehow, the Trump […]

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Chaos reigns.

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Entering dangerous territory. Trump is a cornered animal.

Gravesend, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose New York City spreads out like an endless carpet across Long island comprising the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn. I took the D train down to Gravesend just one stop before Coney Island on the Atlantic Ocean. The streets are lined with single family houses and duplexes fronted by […]

Astor Place — © Brian Rose Last white rhinos.