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Parkside Lounge in the Lower East Side has been in business since 1956. Before it was a bar it operated as an icehouse & there even was a tunnel downstairs that used to run all the way to the river so that ice from the river could easily be transported into the house. Today, we were lucky enough to speak with the co-owner Christopher Lee who has lovingly maintained the bar’s vintage neon signage which you can see all the way down Houston Street. Our photo of @the_parkside_lounge_nyc from 2010 appears in our book "New York Nights".
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To see our “tour” of this dive bar which has also live music performances, please check out our JamesandKarla YouTube channel, see direct link below & in bio and IG story.
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Wilton Manors Fort Lauderdale Florida was founded by Antonio “Ralph” Dumas in 2005 and specializes in Candy from 87 different countries including many hard-to-find candies made famous in America from 1806 to the mid 1990s Watch: youtu.be/b2R5BPLie9s
2018 is the year of the dog and to celebrate we are posting Papaya Dog in Midtown. They are a friendly competitor/copy of the original Papaya King 👑 which specializes in hot dogs and papaya and fruit drinks. We love ❤️ their frantic array of #signage trying to draw you in. Wishing everyone a happy and healthy Lunar New Year!
The Lower East Side of Manhattan was the first home to many Eastern European Jews and by 1910 they made up almost a quarter of the New York City’s population. Many of them moved into overcrowded tenements and initially set up pushcarts and tiny market stalls throughout the streets of the Lower East Side. After pushcarts were outlawed in 1939, the streets instead became lined with shops such as this one. #Analog photo from 2004 appears in our book, “Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York”.
This small restaurant that had no tables, only counter seating with stools, closed in 2015 after 35 years in business. To see this print at near life-size please come to "Capturing the Lower East Side Storefronts" exhibition we are curating at the Theater for the New City Gallery located at 155 First Avenue near 10th Street. The opening reception is this Monday, August 14th from 6-9 pm. It is FREE to attend and in addition to seeing the photography and oral history on display, there will be free wine 🍷 courtesy of @tastewineco and free beer 🍻 courtesy of @jimmysno43 and free cheese and crackers courtesy of Westside Market and free Italian pastries and cookies courtesy of @venierospastry! We hope to see everyone at the opening!
The iconic Carnegie Delicatessen closed after 79 years in business in 2016 and Stage Deli closed after 75 years in business in 2012. Benash closed its doors after failing to pay rent (they owed $850,000 in back rent and real estate taxes). When they initially signed their lease, rent was set at $50,000 a month plus real estate taxes and water bills. In our 20+ years of documenting mom-and-pop stores and restaurants, the most common reason why places close, is due to a high rent increase.
Shopsin’s was founded as a general store in 1973 but morphed into a diner as was known for its huge menu including many strange pancake flavors options including Mac & Cheese pancakes and its infamous customer rules including no tables with more than 4 people dining together and no two people at the same table ordering the same menu item. R.I.P. Kenny Shopsin.
This is another photograph taken in Custer, South Dakota. This was located on the other side of the storefront where the chair was located. I liked how simple the composition was but how complicated the scene got once looking deeper into it. I also really liked the Coca-Cola lamp in the window.
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Pitkin Grocery Store in East New York, Brooklyn is no longer in business. We loved this neighborhood #bodega with its worn facade and #handpainted #signage. Bodegas like this are often the only place locals can buy groceries because their neighborhood lacks big grocery stores. In our own neighborhood of the East Village we are currently joining a fight to save our local grocery store which unfortunately is being kicked out (lease not being renewed) to make way for a new gym for the housing complex it is located in. #storefront #disappearingfaceofnewyork #sign #signgeeks #type #typography #font #myfeatureshoot
An assortment of NEW Prints are now available including this photo! Our limited edition signed prints range in size from 20x24 to 40x50 inches as well as a few select 11x14 prints. All C-prints are printed on Kodak Professional Endura Lustre Paper. Contact us by email or direct message for pricing and more info. Also available are signed copies of both Store Front and Store Front II.#storefront #signgeeks #sign #type #typography #neon #neongeeks#bakery #Italian
Gem Spa, the beloved East Village haunt for egg creams that was located on the corner of St. Mark’s Place and Second Avenue sadly closed in 2020. Gem Spa is where Jack Kerouac and other beat poets got their egg creams in the 1950s and it also became a hangout for many musicians in the 1960s and 1970s, who performed at the Fillmore East and the Electric Circus, which were located on either side of the store. Patti Smith was a long-time customer and the New York Dolls shot their 1973 debut album, New York Dolls back cover in front of Gem Spa.
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Our 2001 35mm film photo of Gem Spa appears in our book “Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York” and we currently have framed 11x14 inch prints available (swipe left for 2nd photo of framed print) at @villageworksnyc along with a few other iconic East Village mom-and-pop storefronts.
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Last weekend’s Pig Island 🐖 Festival in Brooklyn had us thinking of all things pork 🐷and barbecue so we found our #analog photo from 2004 which appears in our book “Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York”. Sherman’s was strictly a take-out only spot but was extremely popular and delicious ( you can even see the flames 🔥 through the window).
Since it is back-to-school time for many students, we are posting Hornstein’s Toys & Cards, which was located on Broadway by 156th Street. When we took this #analog photo in 2004 for our book “Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York” the owner told us that he sold lots of back-to-school supplies including notebooks 📓, pens, and backpacks 🎒 along with toys and gifts. Sadly, stores like this have disappeared from the city as people’s shopping habits have changed, with on line retailers taking much of their business.
Yonah Schimmel Knish Bakery on East Houston Street has been in business since 1910.
Please join us as we lead a Store Front walking tour of the East Village and Lower East Side this Sunday, September 17th at 12 pm (noon) sponsored by The Municipal Art Society of New York.
The cost is $30 or $20 for MAS Members We will visit some of the remarkable #momandpop #storefront documented in our books "Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York" "Store Front II-A History Preserved" and "New York Nights" and remember those that have disappeared. We will stop in many culinary specialty stores and discuss the origins of wonderful stores like Yonah Schimmel Knish Bakery.
Tickets can be purchased online at secure.mas.org/np/clients/masnyc/event.jsp?event=3089
Or: You can reach MAS tour director Ted Mineau at tours@mas.org or call (212) 935-3960 with any questions or comments Meeting location is provided after tickets are purchased. Tour will proceed rain or shine.
This lovely French #bakery had a history dating back to the early 1900s and was reopened with a new chef at its helm in 2014 after briefly shuttering but sadly has closed again. We are not sure if it fell victim to the rapid rise in rents that has caused many small businesses to close but since this week is National Small Business Week, we are hoping to help raise awareness of small shops importance to the fabric of the community.
Rocco Restaurant was founded on Thompson Street in Greenwich Village by Rocco Stanziano in 1922. This old-school Italian 🇮🇹 restaurant was known as a mob joint and also attracted a celebrity clientele over the years including Marilyn Monroe &Joe DiMaggio, Johnny Depp and Robert De Niro. Mario Batali also worked at the restaurant as a chef. Sadly, this family-owned restaurant was forced to close in 2012 after its landlord raised its rent from $8,000 a month to $18,000 a month. The storefront was taken over by Carbone, an Italian-American restaurant in 2013 owned by Mario Carbone, Rich Torrisi and partner Jeff Zalaznick who remodeled the interior but left the remnants of original neon signage from Rocco’s and added in neon the words “Carbone and “Wines Liquors” (swipe left for 2nd photo).
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Let us know if you have eaten at Carbone (we have not but did dine at Rocco’s) as it is expensive and notoriously difficult to get a reservation.
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Me with mixed media sculpture of Vesuvio Bakery in 1/12th scale. 18" x 15" x 8". Real storefront structure is located at 160 Prince st. in soho, Manhattan, New York. Follow this link if you would like to see a side by side comparison between my work and the original structure. www.flickr.com/photos/mindseyeminiatures/4701000792/in/se...
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Joe’s Locksmith 🔐 in the East Village. We fell in love with this #locksmith shop’s #handpainted signage when we first began photographing #storefronts in the late 1990s. Sadly this shop along with its corner neighbor, Mars Bar, was forced to close to make way for a new luxury rental tower building. Since 2014 there has been a TD bank on the new building’s ground floor (taking up the space of both the former Mars Bar located at the corner and the site of this locksmith). It breaks our heart to see that glass and steel bank every time we walk down Second Avenue towards Houston Street.
This Polish butcher specialized in #homemade kielbasy, which was nicely displayed using meat hooks running across the interior window. We not only loved the colorful #signage this #storefront had with an incredible variety of #fonts but also the aroma of the smoked kielbasa that you encountered as soon as you walked by. #Analog Photo from 2004 appears in our book "Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York". #typography #signgeeks #dailytype #type #signcollective #everything_signage #ig_signage #fontastic #disappearingfaceofnewyork
The Flower Stall on East 13th Street was founded by Cornell Edwards in 1967 and was housed in one of the few remaining pre-law tenement buildings with its original #storefront intact which exist in New York City. Sadly, Cornell who according to Village Preservation - Greenwich Village Society For Historic Preservation was an “excellent steward of the building” passed away in 2011.