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Alfred S. Mira and his realistic, gritty, intimate Greenwich Village street scenes should be better known. [“Seventh Avenue, Greenwich Village”] Born in 1900 in Italy to a carpenter father, he left school and began working for an interior decorator, dreaming of going to art school but without the 50 cents a day it cost to […]
via The Greenwich Village vision of artist Alfred Mira — Ephemeral New York
Copper bay windows, grand arches, juliet balconies and a sloping roof: As university housing goes, the 8-story Bancroft Apartments are pretty fanciful. Preeminent architect Emery Roth designed the building, which opened at 509 West 121st Street in 1910. By 1920, it had been acquired by Columbia University’s Teachers College, just a block away in the […]
via The artist and scholar gargoyles on 121st Street — Ephemeral New York
From Wikipedia: “Flâneur (pronounced [flɑnœʁ]), from the French noun flâneur, means “stroller”, “lounger”, “saunterer”, or “loafer”. Flânerie is the act of strolling, with all of its accompanying associations. A near-synonym is boulevardier.” A holdover from the class divides of 19th and early 20th century in Europe when the gentry could spend their time engaged in […]
Uit het leven gegrepen / Taken from real life / Aus dem Leben gegriffen All the world’s a stage (William Shakespeare) La vie est absurde (Albert Camus) About time and people passing by Das Leben ist ein Theater Pictures of ordinary madness ============================================ Toelichting Nederlands: Op deze website staat de serie StreetLife. De serie bestaat uit […]
What’s more beautiful than block after block of glowing reds and blues and pinks and yellows, emanating light and heat? These food-oriented neon signs also make you hungry. The Old Homestead sign looks pretty old, though not as old as this steak house (two words!) itself, from 1868. The Donut Pub on 14th Street, a […]
via Gorgeous neon signs illuminating the city — Ephemeral New York
Designed and created by Josephine R. Unglaub.
via Happy Sleepwalk. — lemanshots – Fine Pictures and Digital Art
Probably took this one at 4am. ©Matt Weber
via 42d Street 1985 — Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber
Today, 1209 Lexington Avenue is the home of a Warby Parker store, part of the trendy national eyewear chain. But from 1899 to 2012, this was Lascoff Apothecary, a pharmacy on the corner at 82nd Street that was so old-school, they used to sell leeches. Lascoff’s was a New York pharmacy at its finest, the […]
via The mortar and pestles of a former city pharmacy — Ephemeral New York
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