[Astor Place circa the early 1980s by Carole Teller]
The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP) has an addition to its online Historic Image Archive – a collection titled "Carole Teller’s Changing New York." (View it here.)
Here's part of an email Monday via GVSHP Executive Director Andrew Berman:
Carole is an artist who has lived in the East Village since the early 1960s, who has generously donated to GVSHP over 500 photographic images she took of Lower Manhattan and all of New York from the early 1960s to the early 1990s.
[T]hey show an incredible story of change in New York over the last half century. Carole had a keen and prescient eye catching things on the verge of change, erasure, demolition, restoration, or renewal. All her pictures capture slices of New York that are both familiar and foreign, since every one of these images captures a scene which in one way or another no longer exists, at least as portrayed.
Berman shared a sampling of Teller's photos... (all reprinted with permission)...
Bocce Court at First Park, from First Street west of First Avenue looking to south side of East Houston Street ... circa 1963...
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50-52 Second Ave, southeast corner at Third Street ... circa late 1970s...
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36 St. Mark's Place, south side, just west of Second Avenue, next to Gem Spa ... circa early 1980s...
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St. Mark's Place, just west of Second Avenue ... circa 1980...
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Second Avenue, west side between Second and Third Streets, looking south ... circa 1969 ...
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...and an undated photo of 113 Avenue A near Seventh Street — Ray's Candy Store...
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Prints of all these images are available for sale through the website, with proceeds benefitting GVSHP.