We hope you can join us for An evening with Karla and James Murray: “Capturing the Faces and Voices of Manhattan Neighborhood Storefronts”

September 27 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT

INFO: http://n2ngreenwichvillage.org/event/an-evening-with-james-t-karla-l-murray-capturing-the-faces-and-voices-of-manhattan-neighborhood-storefronts/

Date: Thursday, September 27  Time: 6 PM – 8 PM
Place: Jefferson Market Library (at 6th Avenue and W. 10th Street), first floor Program Room (next to the main reading room – up the stairs to your left as you enter the building).
Accessible entry is on the W. 10th Street side of the library.
Please RSVP as seating will be limited: n2n.greenwich.village@gmail.com

Analog photo we took in 2004 of Vasquez Grocery in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

These neighborhood guys were relaxing and reading the paper outside the #bodega when we asked if we could take their photo. To us, they totally personified the friendly atmosphere we encountered inside the corner store too. Photo appears in our book “Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York”.

It is sweltering in NYC so we thought what better way to cool off than have some #pizza 🍕 for lunch followed by an Italian ice.

Rizzo’s Fine Pizza in Astoria has been in business since 1959 and are known for their “squares” thin and crispy square pizza aka Sicilian style. This #Pizzeria is still owned and operated by the Rizzo family today and even opened a 2nd location in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Sadly they don’t serve homemade Italian ices anymore (this is an #analog photo from 2009)

Dead Horse Bay is a small body of water in Brooklyn...

Dead Horse Bay is a small body of water in Brooklyn that got its name from the horse rendering plants that were on the former Barren Island in Jamaica Bay near the shoreline of Flatlands. In the late 1850s, Barren Island was the site of the largest dump in New York City, fed by barges carrying garbage and animal remains. Factories on Barren Island used the carcasses of dead horses, which were put in large vats and boiled until the fat could be removed, for use in fertilizer, glue, and oils. The bones of the horses were then chopped up and dumped into the water. The last horse 🐎 rendering factory on the island closed in 1935 and in 1936, the island’s final 400 residents were evicted to make way for the creation of the Belt Parkway. The City continued using the area as a garbage dump until 1953, when the landfill was capped.

To see more of our photos of Dead Horse Bay and read the article “Trash or Treasure” we wrote for @6sqft please visit: https://www.6sqft.com/take-a-tour-of-dead-horse-bay-brooklyns-hidden-trove-of-trash-and-treasures/

The Tanks at Bushwick Inlet Park for 6sqft.

To see more of our photos from our trip to @thetanksbk please check out the full article: https://www.6sqft.com/behind-the-scenes-at-williamsburgs-abandoned-bayside-oil-depot-set-to-be-nycs-next-public-park/ and learn more about the team’s plans to adaptively reuse the decommissioned fuel containers and transform them into performance spaces and greenhouses.

Photography and article from our trip out to Dead Horse Bay, Brooklyn, NYC with the The City Reliquary​ for 6sqft​...

Full article: https://www.6sqft.com/take-a-tour-of-dead-horse-bay-brooklyns-hidden-trove-of-trash-and-treasures/

"There are stories of people who knew the geography of Barren Island really well and then a fog came up in a storm and they got lost and weren’t found for two days because of how the land itself was fragile and volatile to the forces of nature. So when you anchor all of that with a landfill and when you build that landfill badly you pretty much guarantee that everything that was buried there is reasserting itself into the world and has been for decades."

Deep under the Lower East Side, NYC, earlier...