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See a gallery of NYC's glorious, gorgeous old-time storefronts [1]
['Ruben Bolling']
Date: 2023-09-23
New York Magazine has published (free, for a limited time) a gallery of photographs of some of New York City's most "shabby, singular storefronts." I find these more breathtakingly beautiful than what's hanging in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Link to the gallery here.
The common complaint that New York is turning into a city full of identical chains and nondescript glass towers is not wrong, but it misses the countless designs commissioned by store owners in hopes of enticing a wandering neighbor to actually stop in
https://t.co/eM6teiYm3p pic.twitter.com/meI8EIAk95 — New York Magazine (@NYMag) September 19, 2023
In my neighborhood, blocks of storefronts like these are being torn down to make room for high-rise apartment buildings that will have ground floor Bank of Americas or CVSs.
It's an incredible shame, as New York is being robbed of what makes it great. But I also have to ask: Why is it that even in the increasingly rare occurrence that a new, locally owned neighborhood shop opens, its storefront will have none of the eccentric aesthetic charm of these beauties from previous eras?
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