Beautiful Bushwick, Brooklyn

The Empire State

Closed! De Robertis Pastry Shoppe

A tragic loss to the East Village, De Robertis didn't close due to a rent hike or greedy developers. No, the owner is retiring and the kids aren't bakers. Photographed by the great James and Karla Murray. http://jamesandkarlamurray.blogspot.com/

on a land farway

Greenwich Village Mews

Really, an NYU outpost

Hurricane Sandy

set to swallow Manhattan

East Village

Downing Street Storefront 2007

In the gentrified hell that is New York City, small businesses like this one (plumber), photographed not long after they vacated the premises, have been lost to soulless chain stores. I took this through a window, a week later - poof!   

Sophie

Village block

Melissa Aldana at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola

An amazing young tenor player. 

Bed-Sty

Williamsburg to Long Island City

dig my new ride...

Tiles of the N line, 8th Street Station

Kooky in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Vermont's Miss Bellow's Falls Diner

Beautiful "Green Point Savings Bank"

From the era when Greenpoint was still two separate words. The latest Brooklyn neighborhood to suffer the gentrification that has nearly destroyed the soul of NYC, Greenpoint has largely held on to its Polish culture with excellent bakeries and restaurants up and down Greenpoint and Manahattan Avenues.  

Greenpoint/Red Hook border

Dive Bar, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Enter at your own risk...

A good sign.

1965 AMC Marlin fastback

When Detroit was king...

Dublin House, Upper West Side

Thanks to http://visualnorway.blogspot.com/ for showing me the beauty of png

I love Vivian Maier

http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com/

Salute: Arthur's Tavern

Grove Street Stompers at Arthur's Tavern where they and the tavern's days are sadly numbered. (Woman on right climbs wall in protest

Daytrip

Beautiful Rot!

Door

Inside Capri

Capri features another beautiful bar directly across from this one. 

Hey Bartender

Capri Social Club, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

"It's summer time baby"

Florama......

Greenpoint, Brooklyn

When it's time...call SMOLENSKI!

Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Joseph Papp's Public Theater

Donohue’s Steak House

An upper east side tradition since the 1950s, Donohue's Steak House is frequented by those who enjoy good food, drink, and conversation accompanied only by the sound of tinkling silverware. A haven of civility. 

Old weird Tribeca

Ghost sign, 103rd and Broadway

Peace Justice Shepard Fairey

Tribeca bank doorway