John Albok stayed in his neighborhood to photograph street life.

By Paul Goldfinger, MD,  Editor @Blogfinger.net

When I was working in Manhattan at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, that part of town, at around 100th St and 5th/Madison Avenue was still an old fashioned neighborhood.   I would walk up Madison Avenue to get there, and on the way I passed  diner style restaurants, a bakery, a flower shop, a newsstand and other similar mom and pop businesses.

One shop that always captured my attention was a tailor shop at 96th St. and Madison Ave.    I could see the tailor working in the back, but mostly my gaze went to his front window where he displayed, one at a time, a changing exhibit of black and white photographs shown mounted on a board and sitting on an easel.

These images were mostly about his neighborhood.   They had warmth, emotion, and beauty. …