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Quite a pretty sunset while driving home from Connecticut to New York State over the old Tappan Zee Bridge. July 2010.
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Coming home on the Staten Island Ferry, I noticed the sunset over the old Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal. In the golden waves was also a sailboat plying the sunset waters. It was simply beautiful! Jersey City. Sept 2005
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The view of Long Island Sound's shoreline as it appears in 2023. At one time, there was a steep hill here called "Platts" hills, which was leveled in the 1990s to build new houses. Milford, CT.
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Just 7 years ago, this was the walkway path from my car to the Verizon Wireless building in the distance. These days, all kinds of weeds and wild grasses occupy the same scene. Orangeburg NY. June 2023
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If you were 12 years old in the early 1970s, chances are your room looked like mine. Posters and pennants from all the tourist places your parents drove your family to. Even the cover of a Vinnie's Pizza box. Milford, CT. Aug 1972
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Back in 1991 though 2009, I had a radio show at WPKN-FM. It was a Saturday nights oldies program featuring music from the 1960s, '70s, '80s and 1960s/70s Rhythm and Blues. Bridgeport, CT. April 2004.
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My friends and I attended the Woodmont Day celebrations at the Anchor beach. It was really nice to see all these new and shiny cars parked on Beach Avenue. That's Signal Rock with the flag on the left. Milford, CT. July 1917
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After an extremely successful game of Monopoly, I finally have enough cash to just throw it in the air and give it away for free to friends. Milford CT. Aug 1972
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"Wait, Dad. Before you take the photo, I've got an itch in my nose"... says my younger son on our staircase. Pearl River, NY. May 2005
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The smoke and smell of hundreds out of control Canadian wildfires has spread to the Midwest and America's Northeast. Here' a view I took several miles from my house. Not only can you see the dense smoke, but it reeks like a rancid campfire. June 7 2023
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I've been taking photos for a LONG time, but this is the very first image I have which portrays my oldest son. My wife and I framed it and the view hangs in the living room. Nov 1991. Courtesy Nyack Hospital in Nyack, NY.
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Good evening, Honey. I had the absolutely worst day at work today. My boss was constantly on my back about the smallest things! Could you run to the bathroom and get some Tylenol for this really bad headache? I sure appreciate it. Love ya!
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Reese, the Calico cat thinks: "Uhh... as much as I love small cozy spaces, will somebody PLEASE get me out of this slop sink! I will lick you and purr forever. Meow..."
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We met by accident. The last of the aging 1960s hot Hippie Chicks driving a Chrysler P/T Cruiser. After a brief chat and my compliment about her car, we parted ways into our separate lives never to meet each other again.
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Nothing quite as good as DDT to get rid of those disgusting and pesky summer insects. This stuff even destroys Bedbugs, something today's insecticides struggle with. Check out the original Gulfspray device to the right.
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Spinning back into history. A carnival in Piermont New York while the place was transitioning from an large abandoned power plant to modern and expensive townhomes and restaurant which exist today. June 1991
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I had an incredibly vivid dream a few nights ago about a future where people coexist with ruins from the industrial past. "Mommy, what were those big things?" "I don't know, dear, but your great grandfather would".
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Yet another grueling day at the Cassette Hospital where aging tapes and tape decks are given a second life. This pre-op shot shows a 1995 Sony TC-WE303 desperately in need of a new capacitor and two drive belts. March 2023.
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Manhattan entrepreneurship at its best. Even Spongebob, Elmo and Mickey Mouse hustle for money. It works like this... You take a photo or two of your child hugging one of these guys and then drop 10 bucks into their bag as a "tip". New York. Sept 2009.
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Strip away all the modern tall glass-box corporate buildings, the South Street Seaport and you're left with a Lower East Side of mostly decrepit 19th century brick buildings and a series of large rusting piers on the East River. New York. 1967
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Usually, I take the time machine backwards, but on this occasion the controls were set for 2123. Over the decades, the Arctic glaciers had fully melted and the remains of our infrastructure were completely flooded.
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Hey, here's an idea. Let's take a late evening stroll over the Brooklyn Bridge after dinner. Sounds good to me. New York 2021.
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The look, feeling and colors while strolling around one of Lower Manhattan's narrow, crooked streets during the rain on a warm and humid summer afternoon. New York. July 2012.
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What an intense dream last night! I was back in 1930 and took the Staten Island Ferry with a girlfriend named Daphne. As the boat cruised past the Battery, we saw people strolling as well as Castle Clinton when it still contained the New York Aquarium.
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A rare aerial view of the World Trade Center's construction zone. The North Tower is about 12 floors tall while the South Tower has just begun. Abandoned 19th century piers line the Hudson. New York. 1969.
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Super Bowl party aftermath: My older son totally crashes while the younger one seems to be staring at something on the ceiling. My wife's sister used to throw ENORMOUS parties during the Super Bowl game.
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Sis admires my 1968 Pontiac Firebird just weeks after I bought it. This was a "rough original version" of a car I've craved since 4th grade. Finally, after months of searching in the mid 1990s, I found one that was in semi-decent shape. July 1995.
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Summer life from 56 years ago. A young me in the center, my first girlfriend at right and her sister at left. My sister swims in a blowup duckie. That large log would return every summer for a long time! Milford CT. Aug 1967.
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By the mid 1960s, vast swaths of Manhattan's Lower West Side were abandoned and decrepit. Once bustling with busy piers, wholesalers and stores, all that was left were shuttered fossils from the past. West and Chambers Streets. New York. 1966.
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Hey mac, get me to Brooklyn and step on it!! West 34th Street looking east toward Midtown, the New Yorker Hotel and the Empire State Building. Based on the cars, this is from around 1950.
