Posted in Photos: New York City street series, tagged Brooklyn memory, Daddy's little girls on April 4, 2026| 2 Comments »
You saw some of Helen Levitt’s street scenes, but here is a shot from Eileen’s family album–Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn.
c. 1950’s. Photographer is Dad—Bernard Harkavy. Eileen is big sister. Hope is little sister. There is some drama going on, but what is it? Re-post from Blogfinger 2013.
THE MILLS BROTHERS:
Posted in Photography Central Park, Photos: New York City street series, tagged Buddy Holly: True Love Ways" on March 6, 2026| 1 Comment »
Paul Goldfinger. Central Park. 2014.
BUDDY HOLLY with one of the sweetest songs to come out of the 1950’s. He wrote this for his wife, 4 months before he died in a plane crash.
Posted in Blogfinger News, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photos: New York City street series, tagged Old St. Patrick's Cathedral on February 4, 2026| 1 Comment »
Mulberry Street, near Chinatown. By Paul Goldfinger, MD, Blogfinger.net. Sept 2013. Click once to enlarge. ©
Little Italy has been fading away for years. Yet you can still take a food tour there and visit family businesses that exist after more than one hundred years.
On Columbus Day, the Italian-American community is celebrated —-Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.
SALISBURY CATHEDRAL BOYS AND GIRLS CHOIR “The Lord is my Shepherd”
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photography nocturnal NYC, Photos: New York City street series, tagged Flatiron Building in New York on February 3, 2026| 2 Comments »
Paul Goldfinger photograph. . Flatiron Building. NYC. Tri-X collection. c.1990.
By Paul Goldfinger, Photography editor @Blogfinger. Posted on Blogfinger 2022.
Like Ocean Grove, the Flatiron Building is on the US National Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1902 and has a steel triangular frame which sits at 5th Avenue, Broadway, and East 22nd St. That part of NYC is called the “Flatiron District.”
This building has been a favorite subject of photographers. The name “Flatiron” refers to the shape of an antique metal clothes iron.
From a photographic point of view of buildings, sometimes you get strange angles, as there is with my photo above which gives the illusion of Flatiron tilting.
Professional architecture photographers use large format cameras with special equipment to get the correct perspective.
But many early photos of the Flatiron show the same off-perspective, but those photographers just accept the result and don’t comment about it.
Below is Edward Steichen’s famous 1904 night photograph of the Flatiron. He got the angles just right; probably with a large format camera where you stick your head under a black cloth.
Edward Steichen 1904
From Uptown Lowdown, a Jazz Salute to the Big Apple (live) with Warren Vaché (trumpet), Ken Peplowski (clarinet) and other famous players we have “Rose of Washington Square” and “Broadway Rose” : Warren is from New Jersey and he has played in the Great Auditorium at a rare performance where jazz was featured.
Thank you to Grover Frank S for his very special comment below.
Posted in Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photos: New York City street series, tagged Judy Collins on Blogfinger on January 6, 2026| 1 Comment »
Central Park at 5th Avenue and East 85th Street. Paul Goldfinger photo. Silver gelatin darkroom print. © Blogfinger.net Click to enlarge
JUDY COLLINS: “Who Knows Where the Time Goes?” From the album Christmas in New York
“Across the morning sky, all the birds are leaving
But how can they know it’s time for them to go?
Before the winter fire, I will still be dreaming
I have no thought of time
For who knows where the time goes?
Who knows where the time goes?”
Posted in Photography: New York City Street Series, Photos: New York City street series, tagged Len Cariou on December 29, 2025|
Fifth Avenue at Central Park. August, 2014. © Paul Goldfinger photo, NYC Street Series . Click to hear the melody better.
LEN CARIOU AND THE ZIEGFELD MALE CHORUS (with a wonderful staging of the Irving Berlin song) from the London production of Ziegfeld (about the Ziegfeld Follies—flapper era review.) Some of you may know Len Cariou from his role as the father in Blue Bloods (CBS)
Ziegfeld Folllies. Internet photo. Click to enlarge.
Ziegfeld girl. 1920’s. Internet photos (PG did not take this photo)
Posted in Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photos: New York City street series, tagged Central Park photograph, Remember John Lennon on Blogfinger on August 23, 2025|
Taken next to Central Park, a place Lennon loved. August, 2014. By Paul Goldfinger © Click once to enlarge.
BILL FRISELL; “Imagine” by John Lennon
Posted in Music from the Broadway stage., Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photography nocturnal NYC, Photography: New York City Street Series, Photos: New York City street series, tagged Jersey Boys on Blogfinger on July 10, 2025| 1 Comment »
Mid-town. Theater District. Paul Goldfinger photo. c. 2013. Blogfinger.net. NYC Street Series. Click to enlarge. ©
DANIEL REICHARD AND CAST OF JERSEY BOYS.
Posted in Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography: girls in summer clothes, Photos: New York City street series on March 12, 2025|
Near the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Silver gelatin darkroom print by Paul Goldfinger © Undated. Click to enlarge.
BRITTANY PORTMAN from Annie (on Broadway):)
Posted in Photography: girls in summer clothes, Photos: New York City street series, tagged The Trammps on Blogfinger on March 7, 2025|
Paul Goldfinger photograph . NYC Street Series. Washington Square Park. Click once.
THE TRAMMPS: “Zing Went the Strings of My Heart.” (live). Note: you can sing along, but practice saying, “Dip dit it dip dip dip” over and over, in pitch and in rhythm and with just the right volume. And find a bass go carry that part because it’s all about the bass.
Posted in Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photos: New York City street series, tagged A slice of life in NYC on February 5, 2025|
Yorkville. Upper East Side. New York Street Series. 2014. Photo by Paul Goldfinger.
Alicia Keys. The Sex and the City album
Alecia Keys at the 2025 Grammys. Internet photo
Posted in Photography Central Park, Photos: New York City street series, tagged A trip around Central Park on January 3, 2025|
Paul Goldfinger . Central Park. Click image to enlarge
KENNY VANCE. “Some Kind of Wonderful.”
Posted in Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photos: New York City street series, tagged NYC blizzard on December 29, 2024|
Central Park from 5th Avenue rooftop, Mt. Sinai Hospital roof. East 100th Street. By Paul Goldfinger, MD. Silver gelatin darkroom print. by photographer. 1969 blizzard. Click once on image to enlarge.
MOSTAR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. “Salut d’amour” Op 12. Edward Elgar, composer (1888).