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Keeping the Fulton Fish Market spirit, not smell, alive
By Spencer Bailey For artist Naima Rauam, the Fulton Fish Market no longer resembles the place, full of fishy fragrances, she found 40-some years ago. In 2005, the market moved to Hunts Point, in the Bronx, after decades of development, mostly facilitated by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s investment in the seaport area. Last Sunday, Rauam presented the fourth annual Fulton Fish Market Day, featuring an exhibit of her sketches, drawings and paintings and a panel of local historians.
Continue reading...John McNamara: Husband, fireman, 9/11 rescue worker
Friday, November 13, 2009
As a New York City firefighter, John McNamara rushed to Ground Zero on Sept. 11, 2001. He spent 500-plus hours working in the aftermath. He died in August 2009 from Stage IV colon cancer, which doctors believe was directly linked to the toxins he inhaled during the rescue work. — Spencer Bailey and Amy Brittain
Continue reading...Documenting disappearing storefronts
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
By Spencer Bailey Many decades-old New York City shops, some of which have been around for over 50 years, have shuttered as landlords raise rent, urban development increases and storeowners retire from family-run businesses. James and Karla Murrays’ “Store Front” project helps capture these ever-dwindling, multi-generational stores as they struggle to survive.
Continue reading...Bedford Avenue bands rock the marathon
Sunday, November 1, 2009
More than 100 musicians and bands performed along all 26.2 miles of the New York City Marathon's course, pepping up the runners and providing entertainment for the onlookers. On Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, about 10 groups were set up on the street corners. — Spencer Bailey and Alexander Hotz
Continue reading...Mart 125: Changes afoot for a long abandoned building
Thursday, October 22, 2009
By Spencer Bailey Filmmaker Rachelle Gardner captures the problems of Mart 125, which housed a public market on 125th Street, in “Mart 125: The American Dream,” a 75-minute, nine-year work-in-progress documentary film that she began screening this year. For the building, abandoned for nearly a decade, there are also plans afoot.
Continue reading...The life of an outsider moving in
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Brooklyn artist Adam Taye, 35, sits in a plastic yellow chair in his cramped second-floor studio, which overlooks Cortelyou Road, and talks about his life. He drinks a large coffee with a dash of soy milk. Raised in Boise, Idaho, in a Mormon family – “I consider myself a secular Mormon,” he says – Taye went [...]
Continue reading...Moe Albanese: Elizabeth Street’s stronghold
Saturday, October 10, 2009
It’s 2:30 p.m. on a sunny Tuesday afternoon in Little Italy and Moe Albanese, 85, sits on a wooden chair outside his shop’s battered, red-painted storefront, wearing a bloodied butchers smock. Above his head, a white sign, its blue lettering faded with time, reads: “Albanese Meats & Poultry.” In 1923, Vincenzo Albanese, Moe’s father, immigrated to [...]
Continue reading...Bushwick bound, new residents living large
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
By Spencer Bailey Ryan Slack and Drew Smartt, who live at 550 Irving Plaza Lofts, are part of a next-neighborhood movement of artists, musicians and young professionals coming to Bushwick. While the area continues to maintain its gritty vibe, there are rapidly gentrifying pockets for those priced out of Manhattan and close-by Williamsburg.
Continue reading...The art of selling gentrification … in Bushwick
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Richie Maggio says he’s learned to not only sell apartments but also gentrification. Maggio, a senior project manager for AptsandLofts.com’s rental division, has been a broker of Brooklyn units, many on a high-end scale, for four years. From his office on Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg, he spends his time marketing new, or renovated, apartments in [...]
Continue reading...Beer garden transforms Long Island City neighborhood
Sunday, September 27, 2009
By Spencer Bailey Studio Square – on 36th Street near 35th Avenue – attracts packs of outside commuters, by train and by car, mostly on the weekends. Since opening over four months ago, the beer garden has estimated about 30,000 customers each week.
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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