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Store front II : a history preserved : the disappearing face of New York / James T. & Karla L. Murray.

Title
Store front II : a history preserved : the disappearing face of New York / James T. & Karla L. Murray.
Author
Murray, James T.
Publication
Berkeley, CA : Gingko Press, Inc., 2015.

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Additional Authors
Murray, Karla L.
Description
343 pages : color illustrations, maps; 31 x 34 cm
Summary
James and Karla Murray have been capturing impeccable photographs from the streets of New York City since the 1990s; Store Front II chronicles their continued efforts to document a little-known but vitally important cross-section of New York's Mom and Pop economy. The Murrays' penetrating photographs are only half the story, though. In the course of their travels throughout the city's boroughs the Murrays have taken great care to document the stories behind the scenery. 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 Murrays have rendered the out of the way bodegas, candy shops and record stores just as faithfully as the historically important institutions and well known restaurants, bars and cafes. From the Stonewall Inn to the Brownsville Bike Shop and The Pink Pussycat to Smith and Wolensky, the Murrays reveal how New York's long-standing mom & pop businesses stand in sharp contrast to the city's rapidly evolving corporate facade.
Uniform Title
Photographs. Selections.
Alternative Title
  • Photographs.
  • Store front : the disappearing face of New York. II, A history preserved
  • Storefront II
  • Store front 2
  • Disappearing face of New York
  • History preserved
  • Store front two
Subject
  • Murray, James T
  • Murray, Karla L
  • Storefronts > New York (State) > New York > Pictorial works
  • Stores, Retail > New York (State) > New York > Pictorial works
  • Family-owned business enterprises > New York (State) > New York
  • Small business > New York (State) > New York
  • New York (N.Y.) > Pictorial works
Genre/Form
  • illustrated books.
  • Illustrated works
  • Pictorial works
  • Ouvrages illustrés.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Manhattan. Below 14th Street : Lower East Side ; East Village ; Greenwich Village ; SoHo ; Little Italy -- 14th to 59th Street : Chelsea ; Gramercy Park ; Turtle Bay ; Hell's Kitchen ; Midtown ; Times Square -- Above 59th Street : Upper East Side ; Yorkville ; Upper West Side ; Harlem ; Washington Heights -- The Bronx. Williamsburg ; Fordham ; Belmont ; Riverdale -- Brooklyn. Midwood ; Flatlands -- Borough Park ; Kensington ; Bensonhurst ; Bath Beach -- Dyker Heights ; Bay Ridge -- Carroll Gardens ; Cobble Hill ; Park Slope ; Clinton Hill -- Williamsburg ; Greenpoint ; Bedford-Stuyvesant -- Flatbush ; Crown Heights ; Crown Heights -- Brownsville ; Prospect-Lefferts Gardens -- Gravesend -- Homecrest -- Sheepshead Bay -- Coney Island -- Queens. Woodhaven ; Richmond Hill ; Ridgewood ; Ozone Park -- Astoria ; Jackson Heights ; Jamaica ; Fresh Meadows ; Douglaston -- Staten Island.
ISBN
  • 9781584236047
  • 1584236043
OCLC
  • 914219816
  • SCSB-11883043
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library