{"id":192,"date":"2007-08-27T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2007-08-27T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T14:28:00","slug":"new-yorkles-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/new-yorkles-16\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/LES"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday and Sunday evenings I got out with the view camera on the Lower East Side. I worked into dark on Saturday taking a picture of the Blue Condo above the Essex Market against a bluish sky with a rising moon. On Ludlow I photographed a tenement building with a ground floor bar opened on the street. A poetry reading in a bookstore\/cafe on Allen Street. A restaurant on Clinton Street. An open door with pool table in a bar on Houston. Last, the entrance to Katz’s Delicatessen with a saxophone player on the sidewalk. It’s difficult to know how any of these are going to come out. All were time exposures with people swirling around, and cars blurring through.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Self-portrait with view camera, Houston Street and Second Avenue<\/span><\/p>\n

Sunday, I began earlier with late afternoon sun still streaking between buildings and down streets. I decided to head for the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival taking place in Tompkins Square Park. Along the way I noticed the Polish 9\/11 memorial in front of a church on East 7th Street. One of the more mawkish of such memorials.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Polish 9\/11 Memorial, East 7th Street<\/span><\/p>\n

In the park there were at least a couple of thousand people seated or standing in front of the stage as well as many who had spread out over the lawn further back. I did several photographs of the crowd, one looking toward the stage, two others of people arrayed on the grass between the trees. The music was great, and I listened for a while.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tompkins Square Park, Charlie Parker Jazz Festival<\/span><\/p>\n

Heading east I came across the 6 BC Garden, one of the most cultivated of the community gardens on the Lower East Side. It’s a quite a bit more designed than the others with pools, architectural structures, and well-tended paths. The tenements enclose the space all around.<\/span><\/p>\n

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6 BC Garden, East 6th Street<\/span><\/p>\n

Further east I did several pictures on or near Avenue C. Murals by Chico are everywhere in this area.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Just off Avenue C<\/span><\/p>\n

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East 7th Street and Avenue C<\/span><\/p>\n

I ended up on East 7th Street between C and D. This block was always one of the best maintained in what was once referred to as the war zone. Strong tenant organization and co-op ownership kept the buildings occupied during that period when everything around was burning or being abandoned. Now, the Flower Box Building, with loft-style apartments costing well over a million dollars, is coming to completion on what was one of the few empty lots on the block.<\/span><\/p>\n

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East 7th Street between C and D<\/span><\/p>\n

I made a photograph of a series of stoops with decorative railings. Another of one of the housing project towers on Avenue D, and at dusk\u2013heading back west\u2013a synagogue and adjacent tenement.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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