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Much more about Joseph Magnasco’s family history.
The scene of the crimes
A Gowanus restaurant, scene of a robbery and a gangland slaying.
Transit Diner (?)
A Gowanus corner.
Gowanus scaffolding
When I saw this photograph, I thought “That’s all of New York now.”
More Bozzo
Fruits and vegetables and meats on Madison Avenue.
Nick’s Diner
A Gowanus location.
R. Bozzo
From 1913 to 1951, Ralph Bozzo ran this restaurant/coffeehouse.
More 14th Street
Going down the block and seeing changes.
Retail density
106 East 14th Street.
Delicatessen, or food store?
Right next to one another on Fort Hamilton Parkway.
A Boro Park five-and-ten
On !3th Avenue.
116th and Park
What made me look up the corner of 116th Street and Park Avenue: The Pawnbroker (dir. Sidney Lumet, 1964).
Recently updated
Munson Diners, now with more diner history.
“NEVER CLOSED”
Munson Diners in NYC.
A despedida, Marie Elisabeth
A New York billboard for sardines.
Grim, grey, unaffordable
Parts of a Brooklyn block.
La casa dei Roventini
Johnny Roventini lived here. Down the block, I was an infant.
Winckler’s
Just some candy store, you say? Just some luncheonette? Not so. At one time this establishment had its own matchbooks: Winckler & Meyer / Homemade Ice Cream / & Ices / Luncheonette.
1940s NYC
Julien Boilen’s 1940s NYC, which links points on a map to their WPA tax photographs in the New York City Municipal Archives, now accepts stories about NYC addresses from readers.
Sam’s, not Sam’s
An Italian-American grocery store.
Daylight and shadows
The Daylight Cafeteria, at New Utrecht and 62nd. This photograph is here because I like the cafeteria’s name, and because the arrangement of lines and surfaces makes me think of the paintings of Charles Sheeler.
63rd Street Super Market
A corner in Bensonhurst.
Friends blogging, blogging friends
Fresca improved a paragraph by Adam Gopnik. Slywy found an abandoned general store, and its history.
An unattended carriage
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, people used to leave carriages unattended in front of stores. This tax photograph features the fourth unattended carriage to appear in these pages.
The shadows
A kid stuck minding the baby carriage, and lots of long shadows in the foreground.
Southern Boulevard spect-op
“Excuse me, mister, whaddaya doin’?” “Takin’ pictures for the tax records.” “Whaddaya, gonna make me pay more taxes?” “No ma’am, it’s just for the records. It’s a WPA project.”
Tip-Top Diner
A Bronx diner. “Tip-top” goes back to 1702.
Recently updated
Some history for the Loring Grill.
Loring Grill
A Fordham Road diner.
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A mystery corner, now with a 1937 advertisement for Kane’s Food Shop and links to a color postcard and an advertisement for Tom’s Restaurant (the Seinfeld coffee shop).