Go Granny Go!

Mr. Levine Travels to the Aleutian Islands during WWII

My father made a series of "records" when he was in the Army during WW2. They were made as he crossed the country from New York to the Aleutian Islands in Alaska and they were for his family who were back in Brooklyn.

After he died in 1994, I had the records transferred to audiotapes. A copy of the tapes are now at THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM in New Orleans.

the audiotapes at YouTube

On the Road 2

What Was Then, and What Is Now

photographs from the Stroop Report

ongoing and coming soon!

the 1938 Warsaw telephone directory
from the NYDailyNews

a letter to Sala

from the NYPL 

Nowolipie Street, near the intersection with Smocza Street in Warsaw, Poland

the intersection now

the corner of Zelazna Street and Chlodna Street, Warsaw Poland 

the intersection now

intersection of Zamenhofa Street And Wolynska

that intersection now

Rocky, the Musical

Tonight I saw Rocky, the Musical. It is terrific, and the final scene is exciting and breathtaking! The boxing ring moves out over the orchestra and those in "circle seating" have to actually get up and move to the stage area behind the ring. They become part of the cheering section in the show and those in the side seats also become active in the show.

It was so good... I am seeing it again!

Labor Day

This film had a profound effect on me. It is sad and bittersweet... and well,  be warned you may view it through a veil of tears. 

"I'd take 20 more years just to have another 3 days with you."

"I spent half of my life worrying my mother wouldn't be able to go out into the world alone, but as it turned out...."

As it turned out... 

The Photo That Got Away

Yeah... it was one of those days: a day where the better part of hours was spent searching for a photo that exists in my memory and is nowhere to be found.

Well, the good news is I found three photos from the group taken on that day in June 1966. But, the one that was taken under the Booth Theater on that day is nowhere to be found.

I suppose I have to see the glass as half full. But that photo is the photo that got away.

This is the above location today:

Little Miss Goody Two Shoes

Plac Grzybowski: Warsaw, Poland

Yom HaShoah: April 28, 2014

RIP Estera Grinberg from Lubartow, Poland. She died in Sobibor on October 14, 1943. 

Estera Grinberg: "Tomorrow, we will no longer be in this world. The sun will rise and set again, the flowers will bloom and fade– and we won’t be here.” “We have nothing to lose, and what is there that we will miss in the world in which we are living?”

Eda Lichtman, who survived Sobibor: "Only in Israel did I find peace for myself."

The 1939 Warsaw Telephone Directory

from the NYDailyNews at the NYC Public Library

postcard written to Sala Garncarz

The Villard Mansion

The New York Palace with The Villard Mansion in foreground

from the NYPost

from the Gilded Age Era

Photo Booth and Me

On the Road 1

Whatever

Whatever. It is what it is... whatever it is.

WeiWei at the Brooklyn Museum

at the Brooklyn Museum

in the NYDailyNews

Gentrification in Chelsea

I walked by this location yesterday and was sad to see about four old adjacent buildings torn down to clear space for probably what will be a new high rise for millionaires.

The red buildings on the left now exist in a few remaining photos and only in my mind.

Barneys Comes Home!

in the NYTimes

in Crain's New York

Barney's comes home at last! My old neighbor across the street will return in 2017.... and lookout Balenciaga, here I come!

Diane Arbus at the Jewish Museum

Eddie Carmel, in 1970, this photo by Diane Arbus.... from a new exhibit at the Jewish Museum 

in the NYPost

at the Jewish Museum

Straight and to the Left

This is the side entrance to the elementary school I attended on Long Island. And it was at that doorway that my mother handed me an alternative lunch whenever the school lunch on any given day was unappealing.

And it was during Miss Langford's third grade class that we buried a dead hamster in the dirt to the left of that slide in the background...

Gauguin: Metamorphoses at MoMA

Gauguin: Metamorphoses at MoMA

Siesta, 1893 by Paul Gauguin

Head of Tehura (Tehamana) 

exhibition site

The First Home

in Brooklyn, NY!

Todd Webb

Todd Webb Photographs

at the NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Audubon’s Aviary: Parts Unknown (Part II of The Complete Flock)

at the NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY

in the NYPost

Bill Cunningham: Facades

Bill Cunningham Photographing Models

Editta Sherman, his muse

Editta Sherman on the Subway

Museum of the City of New York

Gilded New York