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[1st Avenue near 5th Street from 1983 by Raphael Lasar]
Two Fridays ago, we shared photos that EVG Facebook friend Raphael Lasar took of the Blizzard of 1983 (the Megalopolitan Blizzard). This storm produced some 22 inches of snow on Feb. 11-12 that year.
We posted these photos the day before the blizzard (Jonas, if you'd like) dumped nearly 27 inches here on Jan. 23.
Following this, Cassondra Bazelow, an art director who lives in the neighborhood, went out and took post-blizzard photos at the same locations that Raphael did.
Here then, one location, two blizzards, 33 years apart...
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[1st Avenue near 5th Street]
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[1st Avenue looking north toward 6th Street]
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[1st Avenue at Sixth Street]
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[1st Avenue at East 3rd Street]
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[2nd Avenue between East 6th and East 7th streets]
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[Astor Place]
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[Astor Place]
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[Astor Place and the Alamo]
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[St. Mark's Place between 2nd Avenue and 3rd Avenue]
Previously on EV Grieve:
When the Megalopolitan Blizzard hit the East Village (and NYC) in February 1983