Shuttered
Who will remember all the crappy pizza joints fading into NYC history?
Julian Dibbell
Tuesday, August 30th 2005
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The good old days
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Indeed, the evidence compiled here—from "Amboy Road in Tottenville, Staten Island, A Walk Down" (13 pictures, with special attention to L'il Joe's/Big Al's Bait and Tackle Shop) to "Zaytoons Menu (Middle Eastern), Carroll Gardens" (one of a dozen or so close-up menu shots)—just goes to confirm the increasingly obvious: If ever there was a time to fear for the future of New York City's collective urban memory, this isn't it. Between the carpet-bombing comprehensiveness of Amazon search engine A9's "BlockView" (maps.a9.com), photo-mapping of the city's streets, and historically researched photoblogs like Kevin Walsh's forgotten-ny.com, street-level New York has never been more amply and accessibly documented. But that hardly makes the spare lyricism of the Sendrows' Encyclopedia superfluous. Every picture tells a story, after all, and in this naked city there are still at least eight million to be told.
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