Friday, August 28, 2009

Gone Private

The former Williamsburgh Savings Bank building in pictures. It's the highest structure in Brooklyn.

(I had an account at that bank when I lived in New York; they were remarkably convenient, considering. The branches I used had similar enormous lobbies that looked as though the builders and architects had changed their minds about the cathedral. Eventually, I closed that account and the one at the other bank and hadn't thought of them in years, especially since smaller banks have been bought up, one way or another, by larger, less consumer-oriented banks.

Mr. Kensinger is a professional photographer whose specialty is "The Abandoned & Industrial Edges of New York." If I told him that Far Rockaway looked like that in the '70s, he'd probably shake his head.)

via Harper's. Sort of.

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