Author Naomi Rosenblum book signing & reception at Rizzoli Bookstore
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Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York $40.95 This is a visual tour so saturated with realism you can smell the knishes neatly displayed in the window of the Yonah Schimmel Knish Bakery, a visual tour comprised of hundreds of images of unique 19th and 20th century retail graphics and neon signs still in use and inspiring us to purchase to this very day. But for how long?Are New York City s local merchants a dying breed or an enduring group of… |
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Vandal Squad: Inside the New York City Transit Police Department, 1984-2004 $12.99 Amazon Best of the Month, November 2008: Graffiti writers have become a pop culture fixture, and their outlaw mystique has helped spark a cottage industry of books devoted to their work. But as Robert DeNiro said in Heat, “There is a flip side to that coin.” In Vandal Squad, Bronx-born Joseph Rivera chronicles his cat-and-mouse police work putting away many of the perps on New York City’s Top 40 V… |
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The Velvet Underground: New York Art $30.56 The Velvet Underground is an astonishing assembly of rare objects and artworks and the first book of its scale to document the formative years of the band Time Out magazine named the greatest New York musicians of all time. From never-before-seen photographs of the band’s first live show in New York to Andy Warhol’s cover and poster designs, Lou Reed’s handwritten music and lyric… |
