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August 11, 2023 Miss Rosen

📷: Eric B & Rakim, NYC (1987) ©Janette Beckman In 1982, British photographer Janette Beckman landed in New York with plans to spend Christmas with a friend but was quickly entranced by the city’s singular mix of creativity, rebellion, and decadence. After a decade of “benign neglect” promulgated by the Nixon White House, New York […]

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August 1, 2023 Bucky Turco

📷: @nycgraff.head 70. That’s how many New York City subway cars were hit last week, establishing a new record high and milestone in the number of incidents the MTA normally deals with over 7 days time. First reported by @RespectTheArchitects, the “historical feat” consisted of several wholetrains getting covered from top to bottom. (For the […]

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July 26, 2023 Miss Rosen

Mike Maldonado, Iowa, 1998; from Ed Templeton: Wires Crossed (Aperture, 2023). © 2023 Ed Templeton The year was 1990 and SoCal skater Ed Templeton went pro, ushering in a new era of sport, art, and business that could only emerge from the underground. Just 18 years old, Templeton stood at the vanguard, winning the first […]

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July 17, 2023 Bucky Turco

Police tracking down a high profile murder suspect by collecting DNA from a piece of half-eaten pizza crust in a pizza box that was discarded into a public trash can on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, is one of the craziest (and most New York) details to emerge out of the highly publicized arrest of Rex […]

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June 7, 2023 Miss Rosen

All photos © Eddie Otchere Back in 1994, word on the street was out: Wu-Tang Clan had landed in London for a concert at the Kentish Town Forum. Deeply immersed in the city’s underground music scene, Vauxhall native Eddie Otchere knew his moment had arrived. Then 20, the young photographer made a few calls and […]

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May 10, 2023 Miss Rosen

Barreto’s on Stanton Street (1987) | 📷: Tria Giovan On May 28, 1984, New York Magazine announced the death knell of the Lower East Side (LES) with a cover story declaiming the arrival of gentrification. “There Goes the Neighborhood,” the weekly warned, above a photograph of white hipsters in front of a graffiti-covered wall that’s […]

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May 8, 2023 Ron Kuby

“A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a certain priest came down that road. And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. Likewise a Levite, when he arrived […]

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May 5, 2023 Bucky Turco

Mexico City, Mexico – From the outside, La Posada del Sol doesn’t look like much, just another grouping of dilapidated, graffiti-covered buildings with boarded-up windows. Widely known amongst urban explorers, the location is notoriously hard to access: Round-the-clock security and green steel gates adorned with barb wire makes entry nearly impossible, unless you’re resourceful. I […]

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April 14, 2023 Miss Rosen

(Jamel Shabazz: Albums | Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation) As a young boy growing up in Red Hook during the 1960s, photographer Jamel Shabazz lived in a mythic city that has long since disappeared but for the people, photographs, and stories that preserve a bygone era. His family lived in one of the newest Brooklyn housing […]

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February 23, 2023 Bucky Turco

NYC subway surfers 📷: @legalizedfraud That’s the question that elected officials and many others are asking after the recent death of yet another 15-year-old “subway surfer” in New York City. According to police, teenager Zackery Noel Nazario hit his head on something, presumably a beam, and fell beneath a Manhattan-bound J train as it crossed […]

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