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Post by nycgirl on Jun 2, 2013 1:56:47 GMT
Your photos evoke so many memories. I remember seeing the sobering effects of 9/11 and the flag mania when I moved here in 2002.
Yes, the subway stations can be quite dismal. Paris' metro definitely has the edge as far as cleanliness and aesthetics go.
I've actually never been to the top of the Empire State building. None of my visitors are ever interested in going. I'll go one of these days, though.
Terrific photos. Thanks for taking the time.
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Post by mossie on Jun 2, 2013 7:17:31 GMT
Another overpowering tour de force. The knotted gun barrel is a very powerful image. Anshjain made a point about crime. Could it be that NYC is such a mixture with immigrants from all round the world, that the rough corners are getting knocked off to allow a smooth integration eventually. I get that feeling here nowadays when I feel angry seeing people coming here seemingly scrounging, thieving, and overcrowding the place. And bringing their bad habits with them.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2013 9:29:56 GMT
I'm glad you liked the photos. Obviously, New York City is extremely photogenic, warts and all.
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Post by fumobici on Jun 2, 2013 18:21:40 GMT
Wonderful, I especially love the old scanned film images. I can almost hear the Grandmaster Flash going from the boomboxes in the background.
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Post by nycgirl on Jun 2, 2013 22:33:59 GMT
Me too, Fumo!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2013 20:33:10 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2013 20:41:22 GMT
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Post by htmb on Aug 1, 2013 20:44:41 GMT
They are all fabulous pictures, but I really like the last one the best.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2013 20:55:50 GMT
The first one in #36 fascinates me.
(I suppose that I must confess that I sent my brother my best 25 photos taken in NYC in 1973 and he was supposed to send them back to me. They never arrived. So these are not the good ones.)
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Post by htmb on Aug 1, 2013 21:21:13 GMT
Some brothers can be like that...
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Post by htmb on Feb 7, 2015 23:22:00 GMT
I had no idea, when I first looked through these photos, that I'd be planning my own trip to NYC. I've enjoyed going back through them again and figuring out which decade each group was taken. It will be interesting, now that I'm more inspired, to be able to compare and contrast with my own photos. I'm just hoping for warmer weather than what they've experienced lately.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 14:39:10 GMT
I have absolutely no recall of this thread as I'm sure I would have commented at least something. Perhaps I was out flouncing, I dunno know... In any event it brings back a slew of memories, recall of NYC during an altogether different era. (I have vivid memories of the Chelsea Hotel as that is where a how does one put it, as this is a family forum, a "rite of passage" took place.)
Also, the "grit" of NYC that mainly Mayor Guiliano "cleaned up" is in evidence. Even back then though, I have always maintained that I felt safer living in NYC than I have in any other place to date.
Having the city "cleaned up" so to speak is not an altogether bad thing, the subways in particular ,are so much more pleasant and cleaner and super efficient.
The thing that bothers me the most is the overall gentrification of places, Greenwich Village both East and West in particular, along with SOHO, and then later Tribeca, I don't even recognize them anymore as the place I lived and visited at least twice a year. There's a Starbucks or Anne Klein on every other corner where there were once independently run locksmiths, cobblers, used book stores, real cafes etc.
Brooklyn is totally gentrified beyond belief. Reading BJD's post about riding around with the windows rolled up is ancient history. ( no offense BJD). It's become as cost prohibitive as Manhattan and is what is driving people to Queens as HTMB and her daughter are well aware of).
In any event, thanks for the trip down memory lane. Jeez, just look how young Dustin Hoffman and Sidney Poitier look/are!!!!!!!!!!
P.S. I showed this thread to my husband, and even he, who only started visiting NYC with me in the very late 70's early 80's was shocked.
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Post by lola on Feb 10, 2015 15:30:45 GMT
Wow, yes. More wonderful photos.
Agree with you, casimira, about gentrification. SOHO, sheesh. Manhattan is for gazillionaires now, with a little museum showing how poor immigrants used to live.
I've never liked graffiti. The film A Most Violent Year, set in 1981 NYC, reminded me of how the subways used to be covered, plastered, inside and out with graffiti. I never felt unsafe in NYC, either, but as a mother's helper living in Chappaqua and coming down on the train every week to wander around I mostly stuck to a nonthreatening range between the Metropolitan Museum and my elderly cousin's on Washington Square. Once the Moonies buttonholed me in front of the Public Library on 5th Ave, lured me into a storefront and tried to convince me I needed a weekend brainwashing session. Maybe they were right and I was a lost soul who needed saving, but that was the closest I ever got to being creeped out in NYC.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 15:56:46 GMT
Granted Lola, common sense should prevail but, not to the extent it does here. I feel very fortunate to be still alive given some of the dangerous and foolish positions I put myself in when I believed I was invincible. Not so, in NYC. There was one night back in circa 1980 when my husband and I were visiting NYC. Had free access to a wonderful "Captains House" on Washington Avenue ( a client of my mother's that she cooked for). Now owned by Roy Lichtenstein who owned an adjacent building. Anyway, an acquaintance of ours that was a co-owner of our local tavern owned 2 taverns, one in the East Village and the other in what was to eventually become Tribeca. He was a major pioneer in the development of Tribeca. Well, as we were trying to cab our way down there, the cab driver, totally flummoxed,me, not at all familiar with that area, which was really empty of pedestrians. the streets stop running on the same grid as they do above Broadway and it's real easy to find one self in a rabbit warren. We had him leave us off smack in the middle of the financial district and tried to gather our bearings. The streets were empty. Finally, we found a pub that we went to and the owner he put us in the right direction. That was the only time I was spooked about walking around Manhattan. Now, it's all light up, fancy restaurants, Robert DeNiro restaurants, film festival, etc. That's what I'm talking about.
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Post by bjd on Feb 10, 2015 16:29:32 GMT
No offence taken, casi. That was in 1971 as we drove through Bedford-Stuyvesant.
The next time we went to NYC was in 1998 and we felt perfectly safe wandering around everywhere.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 18:01:13 GMT
I had not looked at these photos in ages either, and they really transport me back to those times, both good and bad. The 1970's were particularly strange for me.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 22:12:52 GMT
They were for me as well Kerouac and not as fuzzy as the 80's. I have vivid recall for the most part, of most all of the 70's and although, many, many bizarre happenings when I think about them in retrospect that decade was likely the most formative,enlightening,and liberating time of my life. I only need to hear certain songs,Lou Reed, Walk on the Wild Side, and I am immediately transformed into that era. There is a story however, that made me move from NYC and end up here which I will someday post in random memories.
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