Thursday, December 18, 2008

Minetta Lane

14 comments:

Virginia said...

Minetta Lane is old world and those two or three trees bending in making those groovy shadows on the street....ahhhh perfecto. Oh and those little birds pecking around. Awwwwww!
V

CeciliaGallerani said...

Ken Mac, I've been looking at your blog for a while, and I just want to say: I like your photos of New York so, so much more than being there! (I mean that in the nicest possible way -- I'm a New-York-o-phobe since childhood.) It's a wonderful blog -- thanks.

Kitty said...

I like this little elbow of a street. It seems so accidental.

Lori Skoog said...

Ken...This photograph looks like it was taken in another country. Nice catch and great composition.
Lori

dianasfaria.com said...

Your photos are always beautiful, but there is something about these last two that are really hitting a nerve with me. I always used to walk down this street & you captured exactly what it looks like on this type of sunny day.
It's funny that you mentioned how you didn't struggle with the last one. I think that's called talent.

Unknown said...

Ken, I can "hear" the quiteness of this photo..I like it very much

Anonymous said...

Never been down here before. Looks like a nice and quite nook.

Paz

sonia a. mascaro said...

What a nice street! I love so much those firescape!

-K- said...

This is a shot of Greenwich Village (I presume) that I have always heard about but never until now seen. So calm and peaceful....

rchrd said...

When I lived in the Village in the 60's, Minetta Lane didn't look that nice. It was dirty and dark. Especially towards Bleecker Street.

Then, the Fat Black Pussy Cat entrance on Minetta was closed and boarded up. On the MacDougal side it was the Feenjohn.

Both were pretty rough places as I recall, and I only visited once. I have a friend up in Seattle who was a bartender at the Feenjohn in the late 50's early 60's. He has many stories about how the local mafia would shake down the owner of the cafe. Things calmed down later.

It's nice to see this little street in sunlight and colorful. It looks like a movie set now. Quite a discord from my memory. Thanks for the picture, Ken.

Which reminds me, I might have a pic of the FBPC here somewhere... I'll start looking.

Ken Mac said...

Thanks for that great history Richard!

Jerez Sherry said...

I think there's room for me to live here!

Unknown said...

One of my favorite streets in Manhattan. Good 'ol Subterranean Records used to be below on the right just out of the picture. From here and west to the Hudson have some of the greatest little streets in all of the city. Nice work.

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