"Vintage" photos of NYC

[Addison D.]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 11:13pm

I feel like Rip Van Winkle. I've woken up to find that what I think of as my recent past has become a source of "Vintage" nostalgia for some, and a dubious fiction for others.

Didn't we all just have dinner at Florent the other day????

From untappedcities.com,--a portfolio of photographs from Gregoire Alessandrini of NYC's Meatpacking District in the 1990's.

Says the photographer:

"In the mid-nineties, this area was dark and desolate with the semi-abandoned warehouses of meat purveyors. In the early morning, the butchers going to work were crossing night creatures finishing their shifts. There were a few clubs, hidden on the meat market’s dark corners. Jackie 60 and of course the infamous Vault and Manhole in the Triangle Building. After going to the clubs like Nell’s on 14th street, Florent on Gansevoort was a real treat. A fun coffee shop with crazy drag waitresses and other strangers of the night. And also great burgers and breakfast for hungry nightclubbers crashing in the morning light."

Yeah--that's all true. But it wasn't a THING; it just...WAS.








Before the high-line, SoHo House or even DVF

Updated On: 8/22/13 at 11:13 PM