This was one of my front page photos in the Key West Citizen newspaper and high times magazine, it was the largest drug seizure in South Florida at that time March 27 1980 two hundred tons of panama red as we called it the wicked weed before they made that bust out at sea there […]
Ease dropping on the subway I loved it
Being in New York City all those years I took thousands of cabs to so many different locations, as far as traveling underground in subways I’ve probably been on 10,000 different trips I knew how to get around underground like a mole I can get anywhere at any time. What I loved about the subway […]
Don’t stare too long into his eyes he might just hypnotize you you’re ready read your mind
My great uncle Sal had hundreds of promo portraits taken of him as far back as 1928 when he was 17, he was booked as the worlds youngest mind reader and hypnotist while he played the piano quite a gifted young man this was a self portrait he did of himself in 1933 when he […]
My last week in Manhattan after 30 years of photography back down to sunny Florida
After 30 years of photographing on the streets Of New York covering hundreds and hundreds of parties an soirées and thousands of people on the street I decided to shoot down to Florida and marry the love of my life Lisa this was my last week in the big city I just turned 60 and […]
Things about Captain Tony’s you might not know
Where do I start my grandfather Captain Tony earned his name for a lot of reasons, this was his fourth boat it was 65 feet long had two custom giant turbo engines in it, He drove the boat through the waves like it was the PT 109, back then and still today they were called […]
And that’s how it was
In 1979 lisa and I were living together in Key West we were the known young wild couple back then, she was 17 and I was 23 We were out partying all night till sunrise so I said let’s go to breakfast get some champagne and orange juice drive up to Keys to big Coppitt […]
Spent two years in Coney Island had a blast
After spending 30 years in New York I decided to spend the last two years before moving back to Florida in Coney Island I rented a second floor close to the beach and put a little studio up there took a bunch of masks with me photographed a lot of characters on the beach and […]
She flew by me for years always in a rush
Anybody who follows me on Facebook or any of my sites knows I have the largest collection of people of New York City, I spent 30 years there, just one of my websites has 65,000 different people on it that I edited at a quarter of 1 million, I still have 200,000 digital images with […]
Things got a little crazy for two years
If you go to one of my other websites portraitsofnewyork.com You will see another whole world of my photography there is 8 different categories on that site, This Image right here goes under the category, in and out, It’s a documentary on pretty much the wildest Gay sports club in Queens New York The music […]
These are some of the midgets from the Wizard of Oz Sal did the photos 10 years later in 1949
Pretty cool image right here Sal was very good friends With the midgets from the Wizard of Oz that was in 1939 ten years later he runs it to them in New York City 1949, the little guys were out of work Sal hooked them up with that bizarre traveling carnival world of mirth One […]