LOWER EAST SIDE, 1980s Essays The Lower East Side in the 1980s from 14th St. down to Two Bridges. Street Scenes from Orchard, Rivingto, Pitt, Essex, Eldridge, Attorney, Avenues A, B. C, D. and some more.VIEW the slideshow. More EssaysMAGART PATRIOT, 2023MALGA PATRIOT, 2023MARIACHIMISC. PENNSYLVANIA LANDSCAPESMONTANA BARS (1989-1998)MONTANA INDUSTRY (1989-1998)MONTETIZE, BABY, MONETIZENARRATIVES, ALTERNATE FACTS & MEN'S HAIR DYE Abandoned cars, tenements, Pitt Street Projects 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 Street What a playground. Abandoned cars, tenements, Pitt Street Ghetto parking, where cars are left undisturbed in their organic descent. Gus' Photo Studio, Rivington Street Gus Photo Studio, operated by Gustave Wittmayer at 156–158 Rivington Street, Lower East Side, 1980s.GUS PHOTO STUDIOThe lower sign advertises:ALBUMS — MOVIES — COLOR PHOTOS — OIL PAINTINGS Dominoe Sugar Plant & Williamsburg Bridge The 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 Notice 20,000 dollar reward for ifnormation in na homicide is today's news report on that television. Mosaic & Drunk This park built from the rubble of demolished tenements, featured a huge hand-made mosaic. Mosaic & Drunk The 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 Street Man holding a bottle of Gordon’s gin outside the clothing stores of Orchard Street, near Rivington Street, Lower East Side, 1980s. Jewish Religious Goods Store Rabinical 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.html Textile Shop Window Display, Avenue A Humor 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 Park A notoriuos sreet person, expresses his faith. Kids Smash Cars With Rocks, Est 4th Street What a playground, everything a young male cild needs for big fun. Kids Smash Cars With Rocks, Est 4th Street Children 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 Street The skeptical street person confronts the camera. Security Guard, East 9th Street In 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, LES Spontaneous music next to a playground. Today you have to go to the Bronx to see something like this. Stanton Street Shul Stanton 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-Broadway Beth-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 Street The tenements still exist and were converted to city-run coops.HDFC cooperative 1940s Chevrolet Fleetline, Pitt Street A 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 Street In 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 Plaque The era of Koch. Vandalized Statue, Transfiguration Church, Mott Street Back 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 Display A very old man with white hair and extremely pale blue eyes lived on the ground floor here in the area of Two Bridges.
