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Very interesting to learn about the history behind these parades.
Photographer P.L.Sperr took 1930s photographs of Manhattan ragamuffins. Here are some of them.
Photographer P.L.Sperr took 1930s photographs of Manhattan ragamuffins. Here are some of them.
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Very interesting to learn about the history behind these parades.
Photographer P.L.Sperr took 1930s photographs of Manhattan ragamuffins. Here are some of them.
Photographer P.L.Sperr took 1930s photographs of Manhattan ragamuffins. Here are some of them.
Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, 1932.
Photograph by the unsung hero of New York photography, P.L. Sperr.
Photograph by the unsung hero of New York photography, P.L. Sperr.
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, 1932.
Photograph by the unsung hero of New York photography, P.L. Sperr.
Photograph by the unsung hero of New York photography, P.L. Sperr.
Just started reading …
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Just started reading …
At the 79th Street Station.
November 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
At the 79th Street Station.
The old doorway on East 103rd. Gone to dust.
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The old doorway on East 103rd. Gone to dust.
“When I first became aware of gargoyles carved upon churches and illustrated in manuscripts, I recognised these creatures from my own imagination and I made my own paintings of these scaled, clawed, horned, winged beasts … “
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October 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“When I first became aware of gargoyles carved upon churches and illustrated in manuscripts, I recognised these creatures from my own imagination and I made my own paintings of these scaled, clawed, horned, winged beasts … “
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This nice house on a double
-sized lot on 42nd Street. All garden in the back, along with a barn that was standing when the owner’s parents moved in in the 1940s. Spent most of my time in the city in a wooden rowhouse. Miss it a lot.
-sized lot on 42nd Street. All garden in the back, along with a barn that was standing when the owner’s parents moved in in the 1940s. Spent most of my time in the city in a wooden rowhouse. Miss it a lot.
October 27, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This nice house on a double
-sized lot on 42nd Street. All garden in the back, along with a barn that was standing when the owner’s parents moved in in the 1940s. Spent most of my time in the city in a wooden rowhouse. Miss it a lot.
-sized lot on 42nd Street. All garden in the back, along with a barn that was standing when the owner’s parents moved in in the 1940s. Spent most of my time in the city in a wooden rowhouse. Miss it a lot.
And right before I voted, I traded in my old Queens library card for this one.
October 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
And right before I voted, I traded in my old Queens library card for this one.
Several hours ago …
October 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Several hours ago …
Montreal fall.
October 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Montreal fall.
Great to see this planned for NYC. Finland has been supplying baby boxes to newborns & their families since 1949! Since then, other countries have been supplying them too, including Scotland, since 2017. Much needed, and a symbol of a society that cares.
October 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Great to see this planned for NYC. Finland has been supplying baby boxes to newborns & their families since 1949! Since then, other countries have been supplying them too, including Scotland, since 2017. Much needed, and a symbol of a society that cares.
Late afternoon. More yellows than reds.
October 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Late afternoon. More yellows than reds.
“It is a sort of family, a very strange family. Most of my staff have been with me a very long time and we are very close. Eighty per cent of my customers are regulars and we are all close to each other. We help each other through everything. To be honest, I do not know what I would do without it.”
October 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“It is a sort of family, a very strange family. Most of my staff have been with me a very long time and we are very close. Eighty per cent of my customers are regulars and we are all close to each other. We help each other through everything. To be honest, I do not know what I would do without it.”
“On the road to the French house, Lesley performed with a python in cabaret before graduating to managing a strip club in Old Compton St in 1979, where admission cost 50p and senior customers brought sandwiches to stay all day.”
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October 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
“On the road to the French house, Lesley performed with a python in cabaret before graduating to managing a strip club in Old Compton St in 1979, where admission cost 50p and senior customers brought sandwiches to stay all day.”
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Have been spending time with a solitary ring-necked pheasant. What a splendid bird it is. It’s stayed in the same patch of brush for a week at least, and it tolerates my presence as long as I’m not too close. Yesterday, a bit of excitement as an otter dashed by, heading straight for the pond.
October 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Have been spending time with a solitary ring-necked pheasant. What a splendid bird it is. It’s stayed in the same patch of brush for a week at least, and it tolerates my presence as long as I’m not too close. Yesterday, a bit of excitement as an otter dashed by, heading straight for the pond.
A little time out.
September 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
A little time out.
Whiling away a bus ride looking at cats. If I could actually get a cat right now either of these would be divine.
September 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Whiling away a bus ride looking at cats. If I could actually get a cat right now either of these would be divine.
I like seeing so many terriers and terrier mixes represented in the photographs. This one looks so much like our own dog — Charlie/Charles/Chazza, or Bogdan (his middle name) when misbehaving — that it’s quite uncanny. Surely an ancestor.
September 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I like seeing so many terriers and terrier mixes represented in the photographs. This one looks so much like our own dog — Charlie/Charles/Chazza, or Bogdan (his middle name) when misbehaving — that it’s quite uncanny. Surely an ancestor.
“Sometimes in London, I wake late in the night and hear a dog calling out to me on the wind, in the dark silent city of my dreaming.”
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September 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“Sometimes in London, I wake late in the night and hear a dog calling out to me on the wind, in the dark silent city of my dreaming.”
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The #WKCR John Coltrane Birthday Broadcast is here again, playing through midnight.
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September 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The #WKCR John Coltrane Birthday Broadcast is here again, playing through midnight.
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“He was a Rag Merchant, whereas I am a Textile Consultant. I understand textiles, I know about suitings and have been dealing in them since 1946. Our different specialities complemented each other.”
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September 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“He was a Rag Merchant, whereas I am a Textile Consultant. I understand textiles, I know about suitings and have been dealing in them since 1946. Our different specialities complemented each other.”
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Raspados, late afternoon.
September 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Raspados, late afternoon.
The Paint & Juice truck.
September 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The Paint & Juice truck.