froggy

at Washington Square Park

Raise the Spirits!

For the Good Times

Last call at Harlem's Lenox Lounge

Jack Benny Christmas

Jack Benny and friends

something different

California Desert

Newtown

From NY Times

Pray for Newtown

The High, The Low

Meatpacking district, 2007. This is now a faux German "Biergarten." Say goodbye to grit, grime, and those disgusting homeless people...and a City's soul.

Dead Tech

Lenox Lounge to close

Lenox Lounge is a long-standing Harlem bar. It was founded in 1939 and served as venue for performances by Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane. Harlem Renaissance writers James Baldwin and Langston Hughes were both patrons, as was Malcolm X. The Lenox Lounge featured as the hang-out of Detective John Shaft in the 2000 remake of the film Shaft. Both the exterior facade and interior of Lenox Lounge were featured in the film American Gangster. In one scene Denzel Washington's character, Frank Lucas, meets with Nicky Barnes, played by Cuba Gooding Jr., in the renowned Zebra Room at the Lenox Lounge. Lenox Lounge has also been featured in AMC's Mad Men. Last drink to be served New Year's Eve. New York...disappearing...fade to black.. Richard Notar, Managing Partner in Nobu Restaurants, will be taking over and plans to open a new spot named "Notar Jazz Club." Former owner will remove and take all signage.

Princeton gravestone, 1760

Pied-à-terre

Yesterday

In a land faraway....

Jefferson Library, Xmas, 2007

Tribeca 2008

Princeton, Once Upon A Time...

Show Time! on Houston Street

Nate Radley at Shapeshifter, Brooklyn

Lewis Nash at Jazz Standard

Skyscrapers

Thank you

Thank you everyone for your prayers and well wishes. Power has returned in lower Manhattan but places elsewhere in the city and New Jersey are still in the dark and hurting. It has been a photographer's dream to wander the streets of Manhattan under the veil of blackness, though ultimately this has been a horrific event.  

beware of darkness

Madison Square Park blackout

Con Ed substation

The substation that blew out half of Manhattan....

from Long Island City

Water running very high, 4pm

White water....surfing...

Tug rides Hurricane Sandy's waves on the Hudson, from NYTtimes   

The Birds

Birds massing and cackling like crazy in Long Island City. A local says, "Never seen that before."

Brooklyn Bridge / Fish Market

Where the mob dumped many bodies back in the day...behind Fulton Fish Market.

Washington Square Arch

Tribeca

Barber Shop, Carroll Gardens Brooklyn

Ghost Fishing

Studebaker

More Free Jazz!

Henry Grimes at The Stone

Free jazz bassist, poet and violinist Henry Grimes performed at the Stone this week with pianist Dave Burrell and drummer Tyshawn Sorey.

Jefferson Library

125th Street Train Trestle, Harlem

"every law not based on wisdom is a menace to the state"

Chelsea

Caption anyone?

somewhere in time

my folks, Detroit, 1949

long island city

LIC diner

tribute in light