Carole Teller’s Changing New York
As part of their online Historic Image Archive, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP) has just released a new collection called Carole Teller’s Changing New York.
Veselka, by Carole Teller, c. 1980
They write:
"Carole Teller is an artist who has lived in the East Village since the early 1960s. As a photographer, she had a keen and often prescient eye, capturing in her daily travels people and places that struck her, but which were also often on the precipice of change or disappearing. In some cases these were buildings in the process of being demolished, like Penn Station or tenements being cleared for urban renewal. In other cases they were fading painted signs growing fainter by the day. But often these were people, businesses, street scenes, or layers of grit or decay which were integral parts of her New York, but which were frequently on the edge of transformation, revival, or removal."
Astor Place, Carole Teller, early 1980s
For this post, I've selected a few choice shots from around the East Village.
There's the old Veselka before its renovation. And Astor Place before the Green Monster landed, back when the parking lot provided for a "thieves' market" and the public space was a true public space.
Block Drugs and M. Schacht's, Carole Teller, mid-1980s
Block Drugs is still there today, with its glorious neon sign, but M. Schacht's is long gone--along with "APPETIZING." Gem Spa remains, but the St. Marks Cinema has vanished.
There are many more photos to browse, and they are for sale as prints, with funds going to support the preservation work of GVSHP.
Gem Spa and St. Marks Cinema, Carole Teller, c. 1980
Veselka, by Carole Teller, c. 1980
They write:
"Carole Teller is an artist who has lived in the East Village since the early 1960s. As a photographer, she had a keen and often prescient eye, capturing in her daily travels people and places that struck her, but which were also often on the precipice of change or disappearing. In some cases these were buildings in the process of being demolished, like Penn Station or tenements being cleared for urban renewal. In other cases they were fading painted signs growing fainter by the day. But often these were people, businesses, street scenes, or layers of grit or decay which were integral parts of her New York, but which were frequently on the edge of transformation, revival, or removal."
Astor Place, Carole Teller, early 1980s
For this post, I've selected a few choice shots from around the East Village.
There's the old Veselka before its renovation. And Astor Place before the Green Monster landed, back when the parking lot provided for a "thieves' market" and the public space was a true public space.
Block Drugs and M. Schacht's, Carole Teller, mid-1980s
Block Drugs is still there today, with its glorious neon sign, but M. Schacht's is long gone--along with "APPETIZING." Gem Spa remains, but the St. Marks Cinema has vanished.
There are many more photos to browse, and they are for sale as prints, with funds going to support the preservation work of GVSHP.
Gem Spa and St. Marks Cinema, Carole Teller, c. 1980
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