STORE
FRONT
The Disappearing Face
of New York
James T. & Karla L. Murray
Hardbound,
13 ¼'' x 12'', 336
pages
220 color illustrations
2009, Ginko Press
From the Publisher:
Store Front – The Disappearing Face of New York
is a visual guide to New York City’s timeworn storefronts,
a collection of powerful images that capture the neighborhood
spirit, familiarity, comfort and warmth that these shops once
embodied. Almost all of these businesses are a reflection of New
York’s early immigrant population, a wild mix of Irish,
Germans, Jews, Italians, Poles, Eastern Europeans and later Hispanics
and Chinese.
The variety is immense from Manhattan’s
Yonah Schimmel Knish Bakery and Katz’s Delicatessen to the
Jackson Heights Florist in Queens, Court Street Pastry in Brooklyn,
D. D'Auria and Sons Pork Store in the Bronx and the De Luca General
Store on Staten Island. And as the Murray’s stunning, large
format photographs make patently clear, the face of New York is
etched in their facades.
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