#disappearingfaceofnewyork

[eyegiene]

Saddest story I have seen today #rip #livebaitrestaurant #livebait —————— Posted @withregram • @jamesandkarla Live Bait, a restaurant and bar located across from Madison Square Park was founded in 1987. When we interviewed the co-owner Carolyn Benitez for our book “New York Nights”, she told us that they”took over the space from an old Irish pub. The wood bar and neon signage that says “Bar Restaurant” was installed in 1941 and we decided to keep it because it was very recognizable”. Sadly Live Bait closed after 31 years in business in 2018 and although the neon signage remained, it was reinvented as a taco and tequila bar called Flat Fix but that too closed during the pandemic and we are extremely sad to report that the storefront stripped of its neon is now home to a Popeyes franchise, which we could not even bear to photograph. • • • • • #storefront #jamesandkarla #neon #disappearingfaceofnewyork #divebar #divebars #neonsigns #neonsignage #bar https://www.instagram.com/p/CdQyGqULpa0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jamesandkarlamurray]

Photography and Interview from our visit to Mendel Goldberg Fabrics, Lower East Side, NYC for 6sqft...

Full article: https://www.6sqft.com/where-i-work-mendel-goldberg-fabrics-has-been-outfitting-the-lower-east-side-for-130-years/ "Mendel Goldberg Fabrics, a fourth-generation family-owned textile boutique, has been in business since 1890 and is located on a quiet side street on the Lower East Side. On a recent visit to the fabric store, we had a chance to speak with Alice Goldberg, the great-granddaughter of Mendel Goldberg, about how the business went from a pushcart to a unique destination, the joys of running one of the oldest surviving shops in the neighborhood, and the secrets of some of their most high-end fabrics."

[jamesandkarlamurray]

Ideal Dinettes, Brooklyn, NYC We are releasing 11x14 inch signed prints of this #storefront for $99 including shipping to anywhere in the continental U.S. Please DM or email us at jandkphoto@att.net to order. Ideal Dinettes was founded in 1953 and specialized in kitchen dinette sets, catering to the many large Italian families living in the neighborhood. Sadly it closed in 2008 as the 2nd generation owners decided to retire and the neighborhood began to gentrify with younger,single people moving into the area. Before the shop closed, the owner called us to ask if we wanted to keep the #neonstainless steel #signage as she knew we were very fond of it, but since the#neonsign was so large (and heavy) and we live in a studio apartment, we could not take it and it ended up in a dumpster. #signgeeks #dailytype#typography #typevstime #dailytype #signcollective #bushwick#everything_signage #ig_signage #type #script #lettering

[jamesandkarlamurray]

Economy Candy 🍭 in the Lower East Side is celebrating its 80th birthday this year. This candy store specializes in old-fashioned chocolates 🍫, candies 🍬, nuts, and dried fruits 🍌 🍏. We love their amazing selection of hard-to-find #vintage candies. To celebrate their birthday 🎉 they just recently changed their #signage but we still love the sign seen in this photo taken in 2010 for our book "Store Front II-A History Preserved". When we interviewed the 2nd-generation owner he told us that their "inventory is basically everything I like to eat."#storefront #type #typevstime #signgeeks #fontastic #dailytype#signcollective #typography #everything_signage #ig_signage

[jamesandkarlamurray]

Emey's Bike Shop in the Gramercy neighborhood has a facade made of zinc, which dates back to around 1900. The former owner of this#bicycle 🚴‍ shop told us that Time Magazine's initial headquarters were once located at this address. Photo from 2003 appears in our book, "Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York". #signgeeks #type#typevstime #typography #dailytype #signcollective #ig_signage#everything_signage #storefront #disappearingfaceofnewyork

[jamesandkarlamurray]

Signed copies of our books "Store Front" (Mini edition) and "Store Front II" (Mini edition) now available at The Tenement Museum Shop.

James and Karla Murray’s classic tome from their ongoing Store Front series is now available for the first time in its covetable “mini” format. The Murrays have been capturing impeccable photographs from the streets of New York City since the 1990s. With Store Front II they’ve continued their documentation of an important cross-section of New York’s “Mom and Pop” economy. The Murray’s penetrating photographs are only half the story though. 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.

[jamesandkarlamurray]

STORE FRONT II - A HISTORY PRESERVED

MINI Edition!

James and Karla Murray’s classic tome from their ongoing Store Front series is now available (Dec 2017) for the first time in its covetable “mini” format. The Murrays have been capturing impeccable photographs from the streets of New York City since the 1990s. With Store Front II they’ve continued their documentation of an important cross-section of New York’s “Mom and Pop” economy. The Murray’s penetrating photographs are only half the story though. 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 authors’ landmark 2008 book, Store Front, was recently cited in Bookforum’s 20th Anniversary issue as having “…demonstrated the paradoxical power of digital photo editing to alter actual views in order for us to see more clearly what is really there.” James and Karla Murray live in New York City and were awarded the New York Society Library’s prestigious New York City book award in 2012 for their last book, New York Nights.

Pre-order: http://gingkopress.com/shop/store-front-ii-mini/

[jamesandkarlamurray]

Newsstand at Union Square Park. Beginning in 2007, the city began to replace various old newsstands throughout Manhattan and the boroughs with glass and steel boxes by CEMUSA, which operate as franchise locations. The ramshackle old Newsstands were mainly privately-owned small businesses and the owners kept them for generations. Sadly this green, oval-shaped newsstand, recently closed and construction began to remake the location into a stand selling nuts. We will miss this #newsstand! #storefront#signgeeks #print #type #typevstime #disappearingfaceofnewyork #dailytype#signcollective #everything_signage #ig_signage #unionsquare

[jamesandkarlamurray]

Alias Restaurant at the corner of Clinton and Rivington Streets on the Lower East Side. We love this restaurant and it's chasing light bodega sign as well as the street art painted above it. The neighborhood, which we thought had already changed a great deal in 2010 when we took this photo, has changed even more in recent years. Outtake from our book NEW YORK NIGHTS.#storefront #lodownny #lowereastside #signgeeks #type #typography#typevstime #signcollective #ig_signage #dailytype #everything_signage#disappearingfaceofnewyork

[w42stmagazine]

#Repost @jamesandkarla ・・・ PIZZA on Eighth Avenue near 37th Street. This old-school slice joint kept it simple. They served #pizza 🍕 and soda at affordable prices (this #analog photo was taken in 2002 way before the preponderance of cheap $1 pizza spots popped up across the city). We never got the full name of this #pizzeria but always remembered it if we were going to a concert or to a game at Madison Square Garden. We often wonder if someone saved the original #signage as we certainly would have loved to have kept it! • #disappearingfaceofnewyork #storefront #typevstime #signgeeks #fontastic #type #typography #fontastic #ig_signage #dailytype #everything_signage #seeyourcity https://ift.tt/2wXujxO via W42ST instagram

[jamesandkarlamurray]

El Barrio Bakery as photographed in 2001 for our book, “Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York”. We love when the name of a particular #storefront helps identify the neighborhood it is located within, and El Barrio Bakery on Third Avenue at East 110th Street is a perfect example. The word “barrio” means neighborhood in Spanish and this section of Harlem has a high percentage of Spanish-speaking residents.