Like the guest from hell, the guest who won’t leave, old negatives from New York keep appearing. Maybe this is the last batch …
During these visits, a typical day might involve joining Dennis in the early morning to walk Gabrielle to school (kindergarten). We would walk and/or ride bus or subway until school was over, seeking out bookstores and museums and galleries and libraries. And grabbing a quick deli lunch. Then it was a return to the apartment, where Dennis would probably write for the next many hours and I would hit the streets again solo for more exploration and photography. During the week, Gabrielle’s mom would be at work doing lawyer things, but all of us would go exploring on the weekend, often in Central Park and wherever playgrounds could be found.
And for more of Gabrielle, see the special collection (linked in the left side panel).
From the previously-unknown negative archives. One of my many side trips to NYC, this time a few days with my brother and family in the then-largely ungentrified West Village, and to see a couple of photographer friends.
At least that is how this particular batch of negatives was marked. Will probably need help from Dennis again to pin down the exact time period; I’m guessing 1974? I often stopped over in NYC to visit Dennis’ family in the West Village on my frequent business trips to New York and D.C. Mostly we just walked and did the subway, going from bookstore to bookstore. And walked Gabrielle to school. And shopped the deli’s. (Perhaps my favorite city, but Tokyo has to be a close second.) Easy to digress …
