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Bruckner Bar & Grill is located in the Mott Haven section of the South #Bronx. The #bar and grill is housed in a former elevator repair factory and is one of the pioneering small businesses taking part in the revitalization of the South Bronx or "SoBro" which began in the late 1990s. We love it's oversize #neonsign with the martini glass 🍸which is animated. Photo from 2010 and full text appears in our book "New York Nights". #storefront #eyesonthebronx #everydaybronx #everything_signage #neon #signgeeks #bronxbestshots #signcollective #jj_texttypographical #tv_retrotype #typevstime #guardiancities #reportagespotlight
The odds of winning are worse than 1 in 300 million. In honor of the huge lottery drawing, we are posting this #vintage candy store in the #Bronx with its original Breyer's ice cream 🍦 #privilegesign. What better place to get lucky! #storefront #signgeeks #handpainted #signcollective #lettering #everything_signage #ig_signage #signsofgrime #type #dailytype #typography #typevstime #everydaybronx #eyesonthebronx
We love the #handpainted #signage this #bodega has and were lucky enough to speak with the self-proclaimed "mayor of the block" as he was reading his #newspaper outside! #eyesonthebronx #everydaybronx #storefront #disappearingfaceofnewyork #signgeeks #jj_texttypographical #font #fontlove #typevstime #typography #fontastic #tv_retrotype #myfeatureshoot #signofgrime #signcollective #WHPedibleart #grocery #igs_nyc #ig_nycity #Mashpics #tv_retro #tv_typography
This tiny candy store is no longer in business but opened in the 1950s and that is when its #privilegesign by Coca-Cola was installed. When we took this #analog photo in 2004 the owner, Charlie told us that he still served old-fashioned egg creams and malteds and used a #vintage Hamilton Beach #mixer. The #eggcream is a quintessential New York #candy store fountain drink. Although its name implies that it is made using#eggs and cream, it has neither. It consists of only milk, seltzer and flavored syrup. Charlie made both #vanilla and #chocolate syrup flavored egg creams using Fox's U-Bet syrup. We loved this small #storefront and the little window advertisements.You can see more great Bronx images at @eyesonthebronx
This week we have been invited to be special feature contributors on the @eyesonthebronx IG, which is a wonderful feed with "Views of the Bronx" curated by @denn_ice . Please take time to check out this Bronx-dedicated page and give the curators some much deserved thanks, likes and even a follow. We were particularly excited to contribute to the page as we would love to bring more recognition to the borough of the Bronx, which often gets overlooked by people who are thinking about or visiting New York City. The Loew's Paradise Theatre was built in 1929 at a cost of $4 million. The #movie theater had a lavish auditorium with seating for 4,200 and was designed to transport #Bronx residents to a 16th century #Italian Baroque garden, adorned with marble pillars, statues, tapestries and even a goldfish #pool. The Loew's Paradise Theatre exterior was listed as a New York City Registered #Landmark in 1997 and the #interior was landmarked in 2006. We love this #theater and were so happy when after years of neglect it was restored to its former glory. We particularly love the #vintage #neonsign and amazing #architectural details visible on the terra cotta. This photo also has special significance because we are working with the Municipal Art Society of New York @mas_nyc in helping celebrate the 50th anniversary of the passage of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Law (April 19, 1965). Photo and more history appear in our book "New York Nights". #eyesonthebronx #storefront #cinema
Courtland Ave. Food in the Melrose neighborhood of the Bronx is a typical New York-style #bodega. Bodega is the Spanish word for "warehouse" and is generally used to describe a small store selling a wide variety of items including soda, #beer, #cigarettes, cold cuts, packaged food, #candy and flowers. We loved that this bodega had the typical yellow awning and metal #sign with #handpainted letters advertising the goods that are sold inside. Years ago, there were hundreds of these specific-style bodegas all around the five boroughs but in the face of modernization, they are slowly disappearing and often replaced by a more modern #storefront with plastic signs and awnings. This particular bodega is located diagonally across the street from the Bronx Documentary Center @bronxdocumentarycenter which has wonderful photography exhibits. #disappearingfaceofnewyork #everydaybronx #food #eyesonthebronx #theBronx #typography #typevstime
Claremont Liquors in the Morrisania neighborhood of the Bronx had a wonderful #vintage #neonsign as well as #handpainted #signage in the window. We loved how the "Q" was made into a #clock. Although the #liquor store is still in business, the owners modernized and replaced the #neon #sign with a plastic awning a few years ago. Photo from 2004 taken with 35mm film appears in our book, "Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York". #storefront #disappearingfaceofnewyork #neongeeks #neonbulletholes #signage #signgeeks #SignCollective #trb_ipoft_signs #typevstime #typography #tv_retrotype #jj_texttypographical #jj_doorsandwindows #foundtype #fontastic #80sixd #everydaybronx #everything_signage #bronxbestshots #eyesonthebronx #signofgrime
Bronx Thorpe Family Residence, a tier II transitional shelter for women and their children run by Sister Barbara Lenninger in the South Bronx, 1990.
Posing in a vast vacant lot with some youth I was photographing doing somersaults on discarded mattresses re-purposed as trampolines. These same kinds of improvised playgrounds were a big part of my own childhood, and when I came across them I had to join in for a spell. Their free-form gymnastics were impressive, especially given that no prior formal training was involved. [mine not so much]
The lot is located on Stebbins Avenue between 170th Street and Jennings Avenue. The shot was taken looking east overlooking Louis Nine Blvd and the infamous Charlotte Street. The site has been visited by several U.S. presidents (all promising great urban renewal): Jimmy Carter on Oct. 5, 1977, Ronald Reagan Aug. 5, 1980, and Bill Clinton on Dec. 10, 1997. The young acrobats were entirely unaware of the significance of the strip in history. The lot remains empty today.
Photo: © Jeff Cowen
1990 was a pivotal year in the arts in regards to AIDS. Pop art/graff artist Keith Haring passed away from complications of the disease in February 16th (25 years ago tomorrow), and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe had just died the previous year. WORLD AIDS Day (December 1st) had been established just 2 years before as a commemorative day “without art.”
1990 also marked a major milestone for activism in the Latino/Hispanic community. The Latino Commission on AIDS was formed. The Hispanic Federation of New York City is also formed and subsequently creates the LUCES initiative, a coalition dedicated to developing public policy and advocate for a Latino HIV/AIDS agenda. At the urging of these organizations, other social-service CBOs, as well as local arts councils, Latino artists began to create art that reflected themes connect to the AIDS epidemic as a form of cultural activism. I created this image as part of a series on the subject in the South Bronx.
Today, in New York, AIDS continues to affect the Latino community disproportionally at a rate 5.7 times higher than whites. October 15th is National Latino AIDS Awareness Day.