Many of Jane Freeman's photos from the 1980s and 1990s were taken at locations I've been unable to identify. Feel free to weigh in, but please don't just toss out a guess. / 19 comments
In the last post in the then-and-now series of Jane Freeman's photos from the 1980s, we take a look at lower Greenwich Street, where the changes have been among the most dramatic. / 4 comments
It's hard to imagine now the state of decay that much of Greenwich Street—prime Tribeca these days—was in three decades ago. Lucky for us, Jane Freeman was taking photos.... / 11 comments
Over the past few decades, some of Tribeca's most dramatic changes have occurred in the neighborhood's northwest corner, where small buildings have been replaced by larger, fancier ones. / 4 comments
Amid Jane Freeman's cache of photos from the 1980s and 90s was a thorough look at the set constructed for "It Could Happen to You," starring Nicolas Cage and Bridget Fonda. The set designers also built a loft building next door. / 18 comments
We continue our crawl through the past with a walk up Hudson Street, from Duane to Laight. / 1 comment
Let's head into the Wayback Machine for a stroll in 1980s Tribeca, when the streets still had a touch of meanness about them. / 4 comments
Remember when United Rubber had a store on Warren Street? / 2 comments
Pre-1990 Tribeca was a markedly different place than it is now. In this post: W. Broadway and Staple Street. / 7 comments
As these pre-1990 photos of Tribeca show, the neighborhood was a markedly different place back then. First up: Franklin Street. / 10 comments
Tribeca artist and writer Jane Freeman takes us back to the 1990s, when you could still make art—such as Freeman's dioramas, interspersed throughout the text—from materials found at odd-lot stores and discarded on the street. / 6 comments
Longtime Tribeca artist and writer Jane Freeman lets us take a peek at a handful of her journal entries from the 1980s, when Tribeca was young and "we walked our dogs in acres of chamomile weeds." / 3 comments
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