Goodbye Frankie & Johnnie

 A former speakeasy in the theater district, Frankie & Johnnie steakhouse was quintessential old school New York. The walls were covered in the publicity photos of the many stars who dined their through the years. Jack Klugman, Tony Randall, Alan King, Nanette Fabray, and many, many more. As the tourists walk by the old spot on their way to a show or MacDonalds or Olive Garden, another little piece of genuine NYC history is dead.

     

Fort Greene, Brooklyn

Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn

Merry Christmas

September, 2015

Morgan Annex, USPS

Red Hook, Brooklyn

jazz in paris

Montero's, Brooklyn Heights

Somewhere, downtown Brooklyn

Glass brick, Red Hook

 A small town close to Manhattan, the edge of Brooklyn, Red Hook is largely frozen in time. Untouched by gentrification due to its lack of subway, a seaport community that was battered by Sandy, Red Hook still shows many signs of its maritime roots.   

Wall, Red Hook

Like many old buildings in Red Hook, this one was severely damaged in Hurricane Sandy and is yet to be repaired. Meanwhile, its fading facade is a beauty  

Kranky Soap Co, Red Hook, Brooklyn

Old Bar in Chinatown

Clinton Community Gardens, Hell's Kitchen, NYC

Our House....

Broadway and 47th, 1955

8th Avenue, downtown.

Jesus just hit Chelsea, bound for New Orleans..

street patrol

57th street

Beautiful Bushwick Brooklyn

50th Street towards 6th Avenue, 1946

lower manhattan from brooklyn, 1970

West 4th street at 7th Avenue, 1960

Broadway and 46th, 1944. Al Ponte's Time Machine

Girls Incorporated, Times Square 1960 (from Al Ponte's Time Machine)

1962 B'way and 46th, NYC Neon Clash

Lafayette Street at Bleecker, facing North, 1976. Screencap from Marathon Man.