The Grennie Pharmacy
A Staten Island pharmacy, and a son dead days after D-Day.
Upper Manhattan, with clam broth
A bar and grill, a clam broth house, a tire store.
And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street and Hester Street
An address that was once the home of Umbertos Clam House.
A prisoner of Gowanus
“Whaddaya gonna do, just stan’ there all day takin’ my pitcher?”
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A reprise of the 1958 A Great Day in Harlem photograph.
Not yet a Great Day
The brownstone where the 19478 photograph A Great Day in Harlem was taken.
SUITS PRESSED
A dry cleaner’s sign.
Some Automats
There are thirty-eight Horn and Hardart Automats in the 1940 Manhattan telephone directory. This has been some of them.
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An NYC tax photograph, now with Arbuckle Coffee.
block=1 AND lot=1
No time for rabbit holes this week; I decided just to use the numbering system for the WPA tax photographs to find a property: block=1 AND lot=1. The building looks like a warehouse of some sort, with the Manhattan Bridge looming overhead.
Generations and a settlement house
Lots of human interest in these tax photographs.
On Chauncey Street
Jackie Gleason and The Honeymooners.
Towne Branch subdivision
I photographed this tree — I’m calling it the Towne Branch subdivision — in fall 2020 and again in 2022. In 2023 it continues to be popular with squirrel families.
Five and ten and fifteen
A Kresge window with a turkey dinner.
On the waterfront
Just some grocery store in the Waterfront District, with a guy who looks like he’s from On the Waterfront.
Tires and skins
A Manhattan building with two mysterious tires and a business in hides.
A waterfront barber
At 194 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. Not quite Edward Hopper’s Early Sunday Morning.
Kids wearing masks
A photograph by Angelo Rizzuto, prolific photographer of mid–century New York City.
Myrtle Ave. Drug Co.
Whoever owned this building knew something about monetizing: it looks like a miniature Times Square, minus the LEDs.
David and Judith Schubert
A poet’s apartment in Brooklyn Heights.
5 Patchin Place
Home to Djuna Barnes for more than forty years.
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A second bookstore behind a bookstore.
Drugs, groceries, books
Home of Three Lives & Company.
“Leaning. a little to the left”
“St. Bridget’s steeple leaning a little to the left.”
Laundry day
The likely residents of 561 Union Street, and a connection to a grocery store down the street.
Squirrel with avocado skin
A squirrel enjoying an avocado skin, as seen outside Boston last month.
Four Duryea’s
City Island, the Bronx.
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There’s someone — maybe two people? — doing laundry in that photograph.
Mind the gap
A recent real-estate listing ($2.695 million) tells the story of a property with “so much charm that even the pickiest Parisienne will melt.” At the time of this photograph though? Maybe not so much.
Labor Day
A Jack Delano photograph.