EV Grieve: 1990s East Village

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024

A moment on Avenue A in 1995

Top photo by Stacie Joy

We've noted some of the 1990s storefront transformation along parts of Avenue A for the Darren Aronofsky-directed crime thriller "Caught Stealing" starring Austin Butler (here ... here... and here).

The top pic shows Conor's Goat going as (the fictitious) Therline's Coffee Shop at 23 Avenue A at Second Street.

Meanwhile, here's a photo from May 1995 when Margaret's Coffee Shop was the tenant... (photo by Dyske Suematsu)...

Previously on EV Grieve:

• Let's take a walk along Avenue A in the East Village in 1997

Sunday, February 6, 2022

Sunday's opening Instagram post

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A post shared by Gregoire Alessandrini (@newyork1990s)

A scene from early 1994 on Houston Street looking west toward Avenue B ... post/photo by Gregoire Alessandrini. (We've featured his images in the past, like here.)

Thursday, April 3, 2014

A quick step back into the early 1990s East Village

[East 5th Street]

Gregoire Alessandrini has once again updated his excellent blog, New York in the 1990's Photo Archives ...

We thought we'd share a sampling of his latest uploads here from the early 1990s...

[East 7th Street]

[St. Mark's Place]

[Second Avenue]

[Astor Place]

Spend the rest of your day checking out all his photos here.

Some background: As a student here in the early-to-mid 1990s, he always carried a camera around with him ... and he has been uploading the photos from that time to his blog. He lives in Paris these days.

Previously

Friday, October 4, 2013

Found photos in the East Village from the early 1990s

When Roy Lee lived in the East Village in the early 1990s, he'd always pick up and save discarded photos that he'd find on the streets. All these years later, he finally got around to scanning them ... he shared them on Facebook, where we spotted them...

"If anyone actually recognizes anyone, that would be fun, but I don't expect it," he said.

And does anyone know if any manufacturer still makes that snazzy zebra-tiger print in the bottom photo?

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

East Village murals of the early 1990s

Grégoire Alessandrini has added more images to his blog — New York in the 1990's Photo Archives. We featured some of his work back in May and in July...

Alessandrini, who now lives in Paris, now has more photos of East Village murals circa early to mid 1990s... including...

East 11th Street...

...the Bowery...

... anyone say where this is...? (East 13th?)

... East 12th Street at Avenue A...

Check out all his photos here.

All images © G. Alessandrini

Friday, July 5, 2013

An East Village snow day

Grégoire Alessandrini let us know that he just added more images to his blog — New York in the 1990's Photo Archives. We featured some of his work back in May.

Some background: As a student here in the early-to-mid 1990s, he always carried a camera around with him ... and he has been uploading the photos from that time to his blog. He lives in Paris these days.

Anyway, given the temps outside today ... East Village blizzard pics from 1995 seemed fitting...

Second Avenue looking north...

First Avenue looking north ...

Avenue A looking south ...

Indian Larry...

You may now spend your holiday weekend rooting through his photo archives here.

Friday, May 24, 2013

A quick trip back to the East Village of the early 1990s

I just added New York in the 1990's Photo Archives to that jumbled mess of a blogroll over on the right-hand side of this page.

A little background: As a student here in the early-to-mid 1990s, Grégoire Alessandrini was always carrying a camera around with him... and he has been uploading the photos from that time to his blog. (Alex has featured his work at Flaming Pablum while Curbed has also highlighted his photos of Times Square and the Meatpacking District.)

I wanted to point out a few of his photos from the East Village, where he lived on Avenue A and East 12th Street. He lives in Paris these days (Vélib, the bike-share program, works very well there, he says) ... Regarding the photos: "I really do miss these times."