Abandoned cars, tenements, Pitt StreetProjects have replaced the old tenements in the background. Into the 1990s when real estate began to rise in value, there were no more high rise, housing projects, being built, as justification took hold. Into the early 2000s buildings and high-rises were being built, and they were usually luxury in their nature and style.Abandoned cars, tenements, Pitt StreetWhat a playground.Abandoned cars, tenements, Pitt StreetGhetto parking, where cars are left undisturbed in their organic descent.Gus' Photo Studio, Rivington StreetGus Photo Studio, operated by Gustave Wittmayer at 156–158 Rivington Street, Lower East Side, 1980s.
GUS PHOTO STUDIO
The lower sign advertises:
ALBUMS — MOVIES — COLOR PHOTOS — OIL PAINTINGSDominoe Sugar Plant & Williamsburg BridgeThe utilitarian bridge and Sugar Refinery were the industrial lands that provided all those jobs for city inhabitants. It, obviously, flipped into its role as providing luxury housing and bull shit jobs in retail.Busted Television & Homicide Notice20,000 dollar reward for ifnormation in na homicide is today's news report on that television.Mosaic & DrunkThis park built from the rubble of demolished tenements, featured a huge hand-made mosaic.Mosaic & DrunkThe parks is still there today.Drunk, Orchard St.Man wearing an old New York police cap beneath a reversed “Loading Zone” sign, Lower East Side, 1980s.Drunk, Orchard StreetMan holding a bottle of Gordon’s gin outside the clothing stores of Orchard Street, near Rivington Street, Lower East Side, 1980s.Jewish Religious Goods StoreRabinical attire and religious goods for sale south of delancy Street.Zelig Blumenthal Hebrew Religious Goods, Essex St.https://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/2010/06/zelig-blumenthal-closes-shop-on-essex-street.htmlTextile Shop Window Display, Avenue AHumor emerges in a winfow display.Family of Veterans' Memorial Window Display - composite portrait of five neighborhood servicemen displayed in a Lower East Side shop window, 1980s.Brothers in arms from the neighborhood.Tompkins Square ParkA notoriuos sreet person, expresses his faith.Kids Smash Cars With Rocks, Est 4th StreetWhat a playground, everything a young male cild needs for big fun.Kids Smash Cars With Rocks, Est 4th StreetChildren require fresh air and exercise for growth. The LES can provide this and without charge, and, often, charges brought against such behavior.Two Women Fighting,While walking the streets all of a sudden, right in front of me to whoever began fighting.Street Person, Allen StreetThe skeptical street person confronts the camera.Security Guard, East 9th StreetIn order to protect a property being saved and rehabilitated in a time where that just didn't happen, because the neighborhood was considered so dangerous. Back then it was hard to tell security from the street people.Puerto Rican Musicians, LESSpontaneous music next to a playground. Today you have to go to the Bronx to see something like this.Stanton Street ShulStanton Street Shul (Congregation Bnai Jacob Anshe Brzezan), 180 Stanton Street, Lower East Side, 1980s. Established in this building in 1913 by Jewish immigrants from Brzezan, Galicia; still active today.
Jewish immigrants from Brzezan in Galicia established this synagogue building in 1913—the date visible above the entrance.Beth-Hamedrash Temple, Norfolk Street by East-BroadwayBeth-Hamedrash Temple, East-Broadway - synagogue no longer exists on the Lower East Side.
Originally constructed in 1850 as the Norfolk Street Baptist Church, the Gothic Revival structure was acquired by the congregation in 1885. It was historically significant as the first mainstream Eastern European Orthodox congregation in the United States. ly damaged by a multi-alarm arson fire on Mother's Day in May 2017. Due to severe structural instability, emergency demolition was ordered, and the building was completely torn down.Tenements, Delancy StreetThe tenements still exist and were converted to city-run coops.HDFC cooperative1940s Chevrolet Fleetline, Pitt StreetA little blight always helped to keep the rent down and the gender fires away, until, it became so dilapidated that the only way forward in a city like New York would be the profit motive of the real estate street.Letter to Neigborhood, East 11th StreetIn the 1980s E. 11th St. had a very notorious crackhouse. There was a tremendous book written about it and in the street. This was the spot like no other.Graffiti, Williamsburg Bridge“Why does the air smell like napalm and asbestos?” sidewalk graffiti, Lower East Side, 1980s.Willimasburg Bridge, Memorial PlaqueThe era of Koch.Vandalized Statue, Transfiguration Church, Mott StreetBack in 1985 this was a big deal, the desecration of a statue at a Catholic Catholic Church.
Now, with surveillance cameras everywhere, it's actually quite common when the disturbed or drunk person brings a hammer to a statue and proceeds to dishonor it.Stravinky Records Window DisplayA very old man with white hair and extremely pale blue eyes lived on the ground floor here in the area of Two Bridges.Zelig Blumenthal Reiligious Goods Shop, Essex StreetDiscussions were always underway amongst the members of the Jewish community as reflected in this window display.Esoeranza Window Display, Don King & Owners, Ludlow StreetDon King with the men of Esperanza Bodega, photograph displayed in the store window, Lower East Side, 1980s.
It is said that Mr. King's hairdo serves a practical purpose. It hides his horns.Katz Deli Window DisplayThe once ever-present Don King gets memorializdd in Katz' window display.Letter & Photograph Window DisplayMusician's Letter, Orchard Street. Portrait of Maestro Margolis with a handwritten tribute from a grateful pupil, dated April 22, 1936, displayed in a Lower East Side window.
The handwritten dedication appears to say approximately:
To the great Maestro Margolis, From a grateful son of a great father, who would have been most thankful to know the progress I have made under you. If my late father would have been alive, he would have studied with you. My hat off to the greatest of all living vocal masters. I am sincerely your friend, pupil and pal.Hebrew Religious Goods Store, Orchard StreetPassover Seder plate, tefillin bags and Jewish ceremonial objects in a Lower East Side Judaica shop window, 1980s.
Visible objects include:
Passover Seder plate
Tefillin bags
Tefillin
Menorahs
Sabbath candlesticks
Religious figurines
Pendants and ceremonial containers
The velvet bags read:
תפילין — tefillin
The Seder plate is labeled in English and Hebrew:
Egg
Bitter herbs
Shank bone
Parsley
HarosethEast River Park, Robert Moses BandshellToday's performance istThe ship, Ugland, is being unloaded at the Navy Yard.Gus' Photo Studio, Rivington Streethe studio belonged to Gustave Wittmayer, known as “Gus the Photographer.” Records place him first at 129 Rivington around 1908 and later at 156 and 158 Rivington. The studio operated for decades, producing wedding portraits, family photographs, hand-colored pictures and composite memorial or military portraits.Red Bird Subway Train, Williamsburg Bridgeon the Williamsburg Bridge as it descended into the east side of Manhattan, you coild reach out, and, literally, touch the birds travelling the rails before descending into the subway system of Manhattan.Dead Television, Cihild, LESChild beside a smashed television bearing a $20,000 Transit Police homicide-reward notice, Lower EStret Person, Allen StreetHe's checking us out as much as we're checking him out.Kids, East 4th StreetChildren paws on the top of an abandoned car on E. 4th St.East 14th Street Power Generating Station, Avenue cCon Edison’s East River Generating Station and its four smokestacks at East 14th Street, photographed across the East River, 1980s.
ory:
Planned by the New York Edison Company in 1924–25
Began operation on November 23, 1926
Originally coal-fired
Expanded in the 1950s
Repowered in the early 2000s
Today primarily burns natural gas, with fuel oil as backup
Produces both electricity and steam for Manhattan
It remains operational
The four smokestacks were not removedDowntown Manhattan From Roof on East 10th Street, 2015One World Trade Center and Lower Manhattan seen from an East 10th Street rooftop.
