Store front II
Subtitle: a history preserved : the disappearing face of New York
By: James T. & Karla L. Murray
Contributors: Murray, Karla L., author, photographer
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781584236047
Subjects: Retail Stores; Storefronts; Pictorial works
Other titles: Storefront II; Store front 2; Store front two; Disappearing face of New York
Description: James and Karla Murray have been capturing impeccable photographs from the streets of New York City since the 1990s; Store Front II chronicles their continued efforts to document a little-known but vitally important cross-section of New York's Mom and Pop economy. The Murrays' penetrating photographs are only half the story, though. In the course of their travels throughout the city's boroughs the Murrays have taken great care to document the stories behind the scenery. Their copious background texts, gleaned largely from interviews with the stores' owners and employees, bring wonderful color and nuance to the importance of these unique one-off establishments. The Murrays have rendered the out of the way bodegas, candy shops and record stores just as faithfully as the historically important institutions and well known restaurants, bars and cafes. From the Stonewall Inn to the Brownsville Bike Shop and The Pink Pussycat to Smith and Wolensky, the Murrays reveal how New York's long-standing mom & pop businesses stand in sharp contrast to the city's rapidly evolving corporate facade.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Manhattan. Below 14th street : Lower East Side ; East Village ; Greenwich Village ; SoHo ; Little Italy; title: 14th to 59th street : Chelsea ; Gramercy Park ; Turtle Bay ; Hell's Kitchen ; Midtown ; Times Square; title: Above 59th street : Upper East Side ; Yorkville ; Upper West Side ; Harlem ; Washington Heights; title: The Bronx. Williamsburg ; Fordham ; Belmont ; Riverdale; title: Brooklyn. Midwood ; Flatlands; title: Borough Park ; Kensington ; Bensonhurst ; Bath Beach; title: Dyker Heights ; Bay Ridge; title: Carroll Gardens ; Cobble Hill ; Park Slope ; Clinton Hill; title: Williamsburg ; Greenpoint ; Bedford-Stuyvesant; title: Flatbush ; Crown Heights ; Crown Heights; title: Brownsville ; Prospect-Lefferts Gardens; title: Queens. Woodhaven ; Richmond Hill ; Ridgewood ; Ozone Park; title: Astoria ; Jackson Heights ; Jamaica ; Fresh Meadows ; Douglaston; title: Staten Island.