Tacos La Hacienda

UpFromFlames: 5th Dec 2007 - 01:27 GMT

Nice Shots!

And hey, Yer father in from Bushwick!Is he from the unit they are renovating inthe shot? Maybe its even part of the city's latest Urban Renewal project there? Also, the house with the mural is the El Puente Bushwick building, painted up by Joe Matunis and Los Muralistas Del Puente--same folks who painted "Time Flies: A History of Bushwick"

Finally, this is very fine Mexican restaurant you have named this post after.

BelievelandBikes: 5th Dec 2007 - 08:14 GMT

The grate adds such a wonderful grittiness to the old car frames in the first shot. I can't wait to shoot NYC in January. The gray of winter adds a certain quality of underlying hope to the landscapes of great cities, particularly as day gives way to dusk and the night breaks into morning.

little ukraine: 5th Dec 2007 - 13:44 GMT

upfromflames - thanks for the info! sadly (for me) it seemed that the only house on the block which had been demolished and rebuilt was 184, so the house my father grew up in is no longer standing. i'm pretty sure that's a new building in the shot, not a renovation. yeah, those tacos really hit the spot. unfortunately, didn't get anything from the pastry shop.

Believeland - can't wait to see your shots! Perhaps you can find some Cleveland spirit in New York.

UpFromFlames: 5th Dec 2007 - 14:30 GMT

If you want to see the house as it once was, you can find the images on files at the municipal archives in the 1939 Tax Roll photos.
for more info: www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/taxphotos/home.shtml

iman: 8th Dec 2007 - 18:56 GMT

my dads also from bushwick. he lived there until he was about 11, than he moved to ridgewood