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NYC's Bike and Pedestrian Crashes Are Now Mapped - New York News - Runnin' Scared

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:24:24 -0400

NYC's Bike and Pedestrian Crashes Are Now Mapped - New York News - Runnin' Scared

Williamsburg Bridge Acrobats Spared From Felony Charges: Gothamist

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:03:17 -0400

Williamsburg Bridge Acrobats Spared From Felony Charges: Gothamist

TLD Presents: “Strangers,” by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis | The Lo-Down : News from the Lower East Side

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:28:37 -0400

TLD Presents: “Strangers,” by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis | The Lo-Down : News from the Lower East Side

Food-Focused Shopping on the Lower East Side | The Lo-Down : News from the Lower East Side

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:26:38 -0400

Food-Focused Shopping on the Lower East Side | The Lo-Down : News from the Lower East Side

Interview: LES Photographer Rebecca Lepkoff

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:33:00 -0400

Photographer Rebecca Lepkoff, recalls a time when the streets of the Lower East Side were like a theater. “There was always something happening… life took place on the street,” she says.

Lepkoff, 95, grew up in a tenement at 60 Hester St., an address that no longer exists, and was always fascinated with the streets of her youth. Her black and white photographs depict scenes from a neighborhood that has all but vanished—girls skipping rope in the street; people gathered in front of the Loew’s Canal theater before a show; stoop-sitting and sharing gossip; women hanging laundry on clotheslines strung between buildings.

Lepkoff’s photographs have appeared in numerous galleries and museum shows as well as in A History of Women Photographers by Naomi Rosenblum; Bystander: A History of Street Photography by Joel Meyerowitz and Colin Westerbeck; Street Gangs by Sandra Gardiner and Life on the Lower East Side: Photographs by Rebecca Lepkoff, 1937-1950 by Peter Dans and Suzanne Wasserman. Watch a slideshow we prepared, highlighting some of some of her work by clicking on this link (the photos are courtesy of the Howard Greenberg Gallery).

Read the rest of the story here:

http://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/2011/10/tld-interview-lower-east-side-photographer-rebecca-lepkoff.html

Restaurant Report Card: September 2011

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:17:13 -0400

Restaurant Report Card: September 2011

TLD’s CMJ Music Showcase: Less The Band

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:14:57 -0400

TLD’s CMJ Music Showcase: Less The Band