EV Grieve recently
posted a blurb about my post from a while back tracing property lines on the block where La Mama lives. (Thanks!) Also Grieve let me know that Vanishing New York recently wrote up a great piece titled "
Loss of Mars Bar" which chronicled the change this block has gone through over the years. (Thanks!)
I'm posting some images shot probably around 2001-3 from the block....these are all just screen captures culled from contact sheet scans, nothing fancy. I have others lurking around somewhere. I was starting a project around that time about the neighborhood and trying to figure out what kind of camera(s) to use, so they're mostly random shots of spaces which resonated with me for one reason or another (the empty lot on 1st St. and 2nd Ave, the UHaul lot, Liz Christy Garden, etc), not formal studies of anything.
More images to come in the future, but for now here's a few that I found:
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| Looking into the (emptied) UHaul lot, 1st st. and Bowery, SW corner |
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| Same lot looking south when demo of the buildings started. |
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| Looking north from Bowery and Houston. Note - what will become the Bowery Hotel is still yellow here. More on that building sometime soon. |
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| The Liz Christy Garden in all its former glory, and the old school I mentioned in the previous post. |
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More Liz Christy Garden with the old fence still in place.
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| Crappy digital camera photo circa 2006 of what was built on the site. Looking south from the west side of the Bowery. |
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| Lot on NW corner of 1st st. and 2nd ave. |
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| Same lot as above, looks to be later in time. |
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