Thursday, December 30, 2010

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!

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

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

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Monday, December 27, 2010

the blizzard of '10

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Saturday, December 18, 2010

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.

Friday, December 17, 2010

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.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Monday, December 13, 2010

vinyl freaks

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

Sunday, December 12, 2010

horror movie trailer...

...or creepy 9/11 memorial?

Thursday, December 9, 2010

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...

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

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

Monday, December 6, 2010

weekend

Thursday, December 2, 2010

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

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

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

Monday, November 29, 2010

berkshires weekend

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

don't be a victim

Saturday, November 20, 2010

columbia, south carolina

The New South. Kind of reminded me of Nashville.