Before and After Photos from The Burg
Over at NYC-Architecture, Tom Fletcher has been working on his own before-and-after photo series of Williamsburg. Starting with a series of black and white photos from 1910, he’s been reshooting a number of the scenarios today in color. Our first reaction: Though we have a soft spot for the current industrial landscape, the Burg was…
Over at NYC-Architecture, Tom Fletcher has been working on his own before-and-after photo series of Williamsburg. Starting with a series of black and white photos from 1910, he’s been reshooting a number of the scenarios today in color. Our first reaction: Though we have a soft spot for the current industrial landscape, the Burg was a helluva lot more charming a century ago, well before Robert Moses decimated the neighborhood by running the BQE through the middle of it. (See here for a good overview of Williamsburg’s history.) Maybe that’s why we have such affection for those few remaining original storefronts in the nabe.
Williamsburg History [NYC-Architecture]
jeez leave Robert Moses out of it, he wasn’t selling siding or forcing people to remove their corniches