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Church Ave. Poultry Co.

My mom once told me in passing that as a girl she would walk with her grandmother to Thirteenth Avenue (“the Avenue,” the shopping street) to buy a chicken. In other words, to pick out a chicken while it was still in possession of its life. I think I’ve found the spot.

#BoroPark #BoroughPark #Brooklyn #photography #NYCMunicipalArchives

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Sep 4, 2022

Church Ave. Poultry Co.

A place for everything . . .

A cluttered desk.

#paper #photography #work

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Sep 4, 2022

A place for everything . . .

Cecil B. DeMille’s desk calendar

From the Life Photo Archive.

#calendar #photography

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Aug 31, 2022

Cecil B. DeMille’s desk calendar

35 Perry Street

Was Merton living in this apartment when the WPA fellows took this photograph? I’d like to think that he was inside typing.

#NewYorkCity #photography #ThomasMerton #NYCMunicipalArchives

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Aug 31, 2022

35 Perry Street

NYPL

An NYC tax photo, with the library looking like an urban Emerald City.

#libraries #NewYorkCity #photography #NYCMunicipalArchives

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Aug 23, 2022

NYPL

Blatt’s 4 - 8 & 19¢ Store

In Boro Park, on 13th Avenue, c. 1939–1941.

#BoroPark #BoroughPark #Brooklyn #photography #NYCMunicipalArchives

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Aug 19, 2022

Blatt’s 4 - 8 & 19¢ Store

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Along came Mary, and a bookstore: Now with more about the Liveright Bookshop and the Liveright sisters.

#NewYorkCity #photography #NYCMunicipalArchives

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Aug 19, 2022

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Along came Mary, and a bookstore

Hamburger Mary and the Liveright Bookshop.

#NewYorkCity #photography #NYCMunicipalArchives

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Aug 10, 2022

Along came Mary, and a bookstore

Reconditioned Can Co.

A Brooklyn tax photograph.

#Brooklyn #photography #NYCMunicipalArchives

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Aug 6, 2022

Reconditioned Can Co.

Nightspots

I took a look at 52nd Street and found the Onyx Club and the Famous Door, fabled names in jazz.

#jazz #NewYorkCity #photography #NYCMunicipalArchives

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jul 29, 2022

Nightspots

Aloe, hallo

Faces everywhere.

#photography

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jul 19, 2022

Aloe, hallo

Sol. Lou. 25¢ a Lesson

3920 13th Avenue, Boro Park, Brooklyn, c. 1939–1941.

#BoroPark #BoroughPark #Brooklyn #photography #NYCMunicipalArchives

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jul 19, 2022

Sol. Lou. 25¢ a Lesson

Thirteenth Avenue Retail Market

The Thirteenth Avenue Retail Market (WIndsor 8-8788) was one of seven New York City markets built in the interest of sanitation, removing pushcarts from the streets and placing them indoors, with the benefits of air conditioning, screening, and hot and cold running water. With dim memories and several photographs.

#BoroPark #BoroughPark #Brooklyn #photography #NYCMunicipalArchives

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jul 11, 2022

Thirteenth Avenue Retail Market

Kubrick Self Service Stores

The Internets will now have one result for “kubrick self service stores.”

#BoroPark #BoroughPark #Brooklyn #dowdyworld #photography #NYCMunicipalArchives

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jul 4, 2022

Kubrick Self Service Stores

G. & S.

A store from the Brooklyn of my childhood.

#Brooklyn #dowdyworld #photography #shopping #NYCMunicipalArchives

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jun 27, 2022

G. & S.

Apollo

The Apollo Theater, with the February 23, 1940 bill on the marquee.

#Harlem #music #NewYorkCity #photography #NYCMunicipalArchives

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jun 15, 2022

Apollo

“Home of Piccalilli”

A Bronx tax photo.

#Bronx #photography #NYCMunicipalArchives

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jun 6, 2022

“Home of Piccalilli”

“Workers preparing coffee”

A WPA photo.

#Chockfullo'Nuts #coffee #photography

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jun 6, 2022

“Workers preparing coffee”

A Brooklyn public library

A few years ago, when I was asking my mom for memories of her Brooklyn childhood, I wrote this down: “As a girl, Mom walked to the Boro Park library on Saturday mornings. It was on 13th Avenue, toward the higher street numbers.” And there it was, between 52nd and 53rd Streets.

#Brooklyn #libraries #photography #NYCMunicipalArchives

·mleddy.blogspot.com·May 29, 2022

A Brooklyn public library

Gnome Bakers

316 E. 59th Street, Manhattan.

#NewYorkCity #photography #NYCMunicipalArchives

·mleddy.blogspot.com·May 18, 2022

Gnome Bakers

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Two shots of the WPA tax photographers and clerks.

#NewYorkCity #photography #NYCMunicipalArchives

·mleddy.blogspot.com·May 5, 2022

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“Uptown, it’s Alexander’s.”

#Bronx #NewYorkCity #photography #NYCMunicipalArchives

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Apr 24, 2022

Outtakes (11)

Outtakes from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs, c. 1939–1941.

#NewYorkCity #photography #NYCMunicipalArchives

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Apr 19, 2022

Outtakes (11)

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A reader sussed out the identity of a mysterious store appearing in two NYC tax photographs.

#NewYorkCity #photography #NYCMunicipalArchives

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Apr 19, 2022

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Outtakes (10)

Outtakes from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs, c. 1939–1941. They sometimes remind me of Ed Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966).

#NewYorkCity #photography #NYCMunicipalArchives

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Apr 10, 2022

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Outtakes (9)

Inside a store that sells — what? Outtakes from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs, c. 1939–1941.

#NewYorkCity #photography #NYCMunicipalArchives

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Apr 10, 2022

Outtakes (9)

Outtakes (8)

An outtake from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs, c. 1939–1941.

#NewYorkCity #photography #NYCMunicipalArchives

·mleddy.blogspot.com·Apr 8, 2022