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Streetlight, Riverside Drive During Rain
McSorley's Old Ale House: Then and Now
The Gothamist has a great post recently on Charles W. Cushman's photos of New York in the 1940s. One of the photos, of McSorley's Old Ale House, primarily got my attention because of how much hasn't changed.
McSorley's is the oldest continuously running bar in New York City and was the last bar in the city to allow access to women (after a Supreme Court case in 1970.) Prior to the Supreme Court ruling, the motto for the bar was 'Good Ale, Raw Onions and No Ladies.' And even Abe Lincoln is said to have drank there.
Here is McSorley's today:
Mama's Home Cooking, East Village
Without further ado, a bigger blog with larger photographs! The smaller size really wasn't doing the photos justice and I think this makes a world of difference.
As with any change like this, if any of you notice any errors or if something looks off in your browser, please let me know. I always check my changes in the major browsers, but often a few bugs will slip through the cracks.
I'm also going to start making a bunch of changes to the site in the next few weeks. The overall design is going to stay the same, but I will be changing the portfolios, tweaking the prices, maybe adding un-matted prints for sale, and changing the layout of the homepage, among other things.
Dreams, 5th Avenue
Bow Bridge in Spring, Central Park
Enjoying the View
Facemask, South Street Seaport
Central Park PDA
Ah, high school love. Though you'd think they'd want to find a less conspicuous spot.
Balloons in Central Park
Caught some girls on the large rock near the southeast entrance to the park celebrating a birthday with a bunch of balloons. I'm sure they let them go purposely.
Breakdancing Superheroes
Well I spent a lot of today doing some spring cleaning on my archive. A royal pain-in-the-a**. I started a new system for tagging all of my photos so that I can access them more easily by keywords. Basically means that I have to go through all my images and add keywords to them.
The good part to this is that I found some old images that I had completely forgotten about. These are images of breakdancers dancing at night in Union Square. I did this in my first year of buying my first camera, and I'm pretty surprised as they look really cool. I really should make a full portfolio of images like these this summer.
