god bless my aunt

For my entire life she's been sending me cards adorned with old record and tape club stickers, Publishers Clearing House stamps, and American Lung Association Christmas seals that she's been saving up for 40 years. Glad to see 2010 was no exception!

James Gulliver Hancock on Bowery Boogie. 94 Rivington never looked so quaint!

the blizzard of '10

feliz navidad!

the isles, palm beach gardens

the shortest day of the year

also from mcny

Prince and Mulberry streets by Berenice Abbott in 1930, and more recently by Google streetview.

Also, Avenue A and Second Street, from March 28, 1947, photographed by the Wurts brothers and via Google streetview, from a distant past day when Graceland was still in business.

Rivington Street, from the El at Allen Street, circa 1940. Shot by Roy Perry. Part of a massive trove of vintage NY newly uploaded at the Museum of the City of New York website. This is the Lower East Side section.

having that dream again

vinyl freaks

Portraits from the WFMU Record Fair by Eilon Paz. Some of us take it very seriously.

horror movie trailer...

...or creepy 9/11 memorial?

Fatty excerpt of Free & Dirt Cheap in today's Daily News...

hawk over the lower east side

I suppose it might work better with something besides a wide-angle lens...

grand street, lower east side, 2:41pm

Great piece on hard times for college radio by Johnny V. in the Times.

weekend

The fourth edition has officially dropped. Makes a great stocking stuffer!

scorpions are scary for ballplayers

Bowery Boogie links to some seriously gritty old L.E.S. material shot by Julio Mitchel in the Times photo blog.

berkshires weekend

don't be a victim

columbia, south carolina

The New South. Kind of reminded me of Nashville.