November 13, 2008 – 10:38 pm
A lovely photo set of New York City from the 1930s. My favorites are the crowded beach scene at Coney Island, Margaret Bourke-White’s shot of hats in the Garment District, and a shot of “the Lung Block” on the Lower East Side. In due time, that then-notorious but now-beautiful block was razed to make way for one of Manhattan’s first large apartment complexes, Knickerbocker Village which at various times housed several members of the Bonnano crime family and Julius & Ethel Rosenberg. (thx, mark)
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Also tagged 1930s, Amp, Apartment Complexes, Bonnano Crime Family, Coney Island, Due Time, Ethel Rosenberg, Favorites, Garment District, Hats, Knickerbocker Village, Lovely Photo, Lower East Side, Margaret Bourke White, Members, New York City, Thx, York Photo
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November 11, 2008 – 5:06 pm
Dark Days is a documentary released in 2000 about a group of homeless people living in an abandoned Manhattan railway tunnel.
When he relocated from London to Manhattan, Marc Singer was struck by the number of homeless people he had seen throughout the city. Singer had befriended a good number of New York’s homeless and later, after hearing of people living underground in abandoned tunnel systems, he met and became close to a group of people living in The Freedom Tunnel community stretching north from Penn Station past Harlem. After living with them for a number of months, he decided to create a documentary in order to help them financially. The film’s crew consisted of the subjects themselves, who rigged up makeshift lighting and steadicam dollies, and learned to use a 16mm camera with black & white Kodak film. Singer himself had never been a filmmaker before, and saw the production of Dark Days as a means of gaining better accommodation for the residents of the tunnel.
The entire film is available for viewing at Google Video. (via waxy)
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Also tagged 16mm Camera, Accommodation, Amp, Dark Days, Dollies, Filmmaker, Freedom, Google, Harlem, Homeless People, Kodak Film, Lighting, London, Marc Singer, Penn Station, Railway Tunnel, Steadicam, Tunnel Systems
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