When I first started editing my great uncle Sal‘s estate of large-format negatives or 12,000 of them there were a lot of single ones in envelopes that had the name and the date that was it this is the Jensen Family 1934 Elizabeth New Jersey
On the morning of 911 I was On my way to New York City Chinatown I always came through the World Trade Center on the path train that day I was late thank God
The day I’ll never forget 911, I was there photographing I was on my way into the city on the path train I was working in So Ho at the time I was taking the path train into the world trade center my train got delayed because the first plane hit I watched one of […]
If you go to one of my main websites portraitsofnewyork.com you will see a category in and out Some pretty wild stuff of the evil wicked nightlife in New York City
Just one of those New York frozen moments
If you go to my main website portraitsofnewyork.com you will see 65,000 images that I’ve taken their edited out of a quarter of 1,000,000 Of the 30 years I spent in Manhattan they say it’s the largest Portrait website by one artist
I have this cool website topnewyork.com It’s to three years I spent in Coney Island this was a hell of a party Nathan’s 100 year anniversary I partied with these guys
Sal performed at the Hollywood lounge in Manhattan on Broadway mid 40s he played the piano did his mind reading act and the burlesque girls danced around
Very interesting story Right here one magazine came out in 1949 the other one in 1989 forty years apart
In 1949 great uncle Sal worked for the world of mirth a bizarre traveling carnival they also put out this wild magazine explaining what goes on behind the scenes in the Carnival Business Sal took all the photos and wrote most of the stories the burlesque girls midgets and psycho clowns, They even provided him […]
Herbert Fox and Donny Diamonds Crazy story about these two
When I first got heavy into the New York nightlife I was fortunate to work for Mr. Fox he’s been promoting parties in New York City since the studio 54 Era he’s 10 years older than me and I’m 64 now, Herbert pretty much promoted a event once a week all year round and if […]
You would think a lot of people took this photo I’m pretty much the only one I think I went to the fifth floor of the port authority on ninth Avenue and 42nd I climb the fence that said no trespassing To get the shot I was caught by the transit police they took me to their special room with some other gentleman with a suit on they did a full investigation on me they thought I must’ve been a terrorist or something I think I’m in the black book
