Uncouth in the City

After I got over the fact that these are not pictures but miniatures, a sad thought came to mind: We’ve traded far too many classic store fronts for stores like this. The Disneyfication of New York might make the streets cleaner (and Times Square “safer”) but on days like today, it just makes me sad. Viva la progress?!

randomnyc:

obsoletethebook:

“Randy Hage tells Vanishing New York he ramped up his efforts when he noticed that many of these classic shops were going the way of, well, most mom-and-pops in town.”  

There are more at his Flickr page.

(via Classic City Storefronts Live on Forever…in Miniature Form :  Curbed NY)