AUGUST 3, 2015Matt WeberOld New YorkWest Side (Miller Highway) 1986
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“Playland” Times Sq. 1985
Another early shot from my taxi’s window…
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“RAIN” Times Sq. 1985
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SHOE SHINE Harlem 1985
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“Porcelain BMT Sign” Wall Street 1987
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Gas Station Brooklyn 1985
1920’s porcelain AT&T sign…©Matt Weber
Lower East Side 1988
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The Bowery (CBGB’S) 1985
Most images are available as high-res files for documentary use, or as signed prints…
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Dusk on 34th Street 1985
When my dad arrived in NYC back in 1964, the YMCA charged him $6 a night for a room…
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West 63d Street (Thelonious Sphere Monk Circle) 1985
This dead end block is one of the last traces of an entire neighborhood which was razed to make way for Lincoln Center. West Side Story was filmed in “San Juan Hill” and also east Harlem, but this was where the story was suppose to take place. Monk lived in a tenement here for many years, and the city finally renamed this block after him…
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“20 Year Old Chevrolet” 1985
Silly title, but this was a twenty year old Chevy, even if it was also one of the most perfect cars ever built… ©Matt Weber
Harlem 1985 (Ektachrome?)
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88th Street & Columbus Ave. 1991
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NYC 1988
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Mt. Sinai N.Y. 1955-1996
Eve Arnold took the picture of Marilyn, and I took the one of the same monkey bars 41 years later…
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Harlem 1985
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NYC 1985
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“Jhon’s Thrift Store” Harlem 1985
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“Watermelons” Harlem 1985
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Houston Street 1989
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Newsstand 1990
When your newsstand is held together by duct tape, you know its seen better days…
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“ESSO-Texaco” 1985
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“BABYFACE-86 & JOE-182” 1985
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Cobblestones 1985
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