The Meat Packing District is today one of the hippest neighborhoods of Manhattan.
In the mid-nineties, this area was dark and desolate with the semi-abandoned warehouses of meat purveyors. In the early morning, the butchers going to work were crossing night creatures finishing their shifts. There were a few clubs, hidden on the meat market's dark corners. Jackie 60 and of course the infamous Vault and Manhole in the Triangle Building. After going to the clubs like Nell's on 14th street, Florent on Gansevoort was a real treat. A fun coffee shop with crazy drag waitresses and other strangers of the night. And also great burgers and breakfast for hungry nightclubbers crashing in the morning light.
Here are some day time shots of this area with its great cinematic quality.
Cameras: Nikon FM2 - Nikor 35mm/f2 / Canon AF35
Gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for these fantastic photos. It really brings back a flood of memories.
ReplyDeleteThank you for this nice comment ! The kind that makes me want to keep going with this blog !
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These photos are terrific. Man, I really miss those days. Thanks so much for posting these.
ReplyDeleteI remember walking these streets as a six-year-old with my dad every Sunday & I can't believe that my kids will see a COMPLETELY different side of New York that I experienced. Thank you so much for bringing these memories back. Pictures really are worth a thousand words. In this case, millions!
ReplyDeleteThanks...a million for your nice comment ! I am delighted to know these images are being apreciated by New Yorkers.
DeleteAre you a cinematographer? Nice eye. Compose in B&W and you can do anything. I messed a lot of the '90's in the city because I was off playing Navy. I was in some of the same areas in the '80's when I was at the Navy Yard and other parts of town. I miss the grit. As a photographer it is that sort of subject matter that is more interesting than the scrubbed and clean city we are dealing with now.
ReplyDeleteI moved out in the late 80s at age 17, and the very first apartment I had on my own was in the Meatpacking District. It was all I could afford- and so seedy nobody understood how or why I could live there. My old building is long gone now, and I no longer recognize the neighborhood at all.
ReplyDeleteThank you for taking me back to a simpler, wonderful time.
Thank you for these wonderful photos. A lot of West St. memories are there. Unfortunately, you can barely recognize the area now. Bring back the old days of the Anvil, Alex's, Mineshaft,J's, etc and the fun times that were then.
ReplyDeleteThanks Richard ! I am glad these images bring all these memories to my blog readers ! I miss these times too ! I will continue updating my other posts. Please come back for more images of NY in the 90's. GA.
DeleteGad, I can remember those days, and in my mind, that is still how the district is (haven't been down there in a decade). Thanks for the photos
ReplyDeleteI am a new New Yorker (6yrs) and I am always fascinated by seeng how much the city has changed in a relatively short period of time. I wish had witnessed all these changes. Please keep posting pics of a long gone NYC. I feel nostalgic even if I was not here back then!
ReplyDeleteWow, I can smell the 'hood through these photos. I lived in Chelsea and then the West Village from 1990-2005. What memories.
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