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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E91ERX - Conceptual editorial image illustrating the No Kings protest movement in the United States, using a map of America and the hashtag #NoKings to evoke nationwide political mobilisation, civic resistance and public opposition to authoritarian style leadership. The phrase No Kings has been used by organisers and media reports to describe mass anti Trump demonstrations held across the US, framed around democracy, constitutional rights, civil liberties and resistance to concentrated executive power. This type of image is useful for editorial coverage of American politics, protest movements, national days of action, grassroots activism, public anger, democratic norms and the symbolism of nationwide dissent spreading across all 50 states. The map-based treatment gives the picture broad relevance for stories about federal politics, election tensions, civic identity, constitutional debate, social movement branding and protest culture in the modern United States. It also works well for wider search themes such as resistance, anti authoritarian activism, political messaging, campaign imagery, public demonstrations, civil society and the visual language of national protest movements. As a conceptual rather than documentary image, it is especially suitable for opinion pieces, magazine features, web headers, explainers and news articles that need a strong visual shorthand for a broad political moment rather than one specific rally or city. The wording also carries a deliberate historical echo, contrasting monarchy and hereditary rule with republican democracy and popular sovereignty. That makes the image commercially and editorially useful for themes including democracy under pressure, national opposition campaigns, protest branding, symbolic politics, public mobilisation and the geography of dissent across contemporary America. Because the movement has been described by organisers and news agencies as a nationwide protest mobilisation rather than a formal general strike.
Concept image of the United States map with #NoKings slogan, illustrating the nationwide anti Trump
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,map,atlas,world,maps,Republicans,president,of,the,USA,America,American,casting,a,model,doll,shadows,right wing,democracy,Stop the Steal,NY,candidate,misogynistic,presidential,election,impeachment,politics,party,Fulton County,Georgia,toy,Capitol Riots,Executive Orders,investigations,Mar-a-Lago,#NoKings,NoKings,National Strike
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RWW5RJ - Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
Trump won the 2016 presidential election as the Republican nominee against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton while losing the popular vote. During the campaign, his political positions were described as populist, protectionist, isolationist, and nationalist. His election and policies sparked numerous protests. He was the first U.S. president with no prior military or government service. The 2017“2019 special counsel investigation established that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to favor his campaign. Trump promoted conspiracy theories and made many false and misleading statements during his campaigns and presidency, to a degree unprecedented in American politics. Many of his comments and actions have been characterized as racially charged or racist and many as misogynistic
Georgia , GA, USA, United States of America
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,map,atlas,world,maps,Republicans,of,the,USA,America,American,model,doll,shadows,right wing,right-wing,democracy,45,Lock Him Up,figure,racist,elections,felony,not,guilty,charges,toy,bankruptcy,merchandise,policy,policies,concept,ratings,tariffs,#NoKings,NoKings,National Strike,47
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RWW5W3 - Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
Trump won the 2016 presidential election as the Republican nominee against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton while losing the popular vote. During the campaign, his political positions were described as populist, protectionist, isolationist, and nationalist. His election and policies sparked numerous protests. He was the first U.S. president with no prior military or government service. The 2017“2019 special counsel investigation established that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to favor his campaign. Trump promoted conspiracy theories and made many false and misleading statements during his campaigns and presidency, to a degree unprecedented in American politics. Many of his comments and actions have been characterized as racially charged or racist and many as misogynistic
Georgia , GA, USA, United States of America
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,map,atlas,world,maps,Republicans,president,of,the,USA,America,American,casting,model,right wing,right-wing,democracy,Stop the Steal,45,Lock them up,impeach,politics,party,Fulton County,Georgia,Washington,family,Executive Order,pardon,claims,voting fraud,lawsuits,concept,criminal,conspiracy theories,polls,#NoKings,NoKings
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RWW5WM - Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
Trump won the 2016 presidential election as the Republican nominee against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton while losing the popular vote. During the campaign, his political positions were described as populist, protectionist, isolationist, and nationalist. His election and policies sparked numerous protests. He was the first U.S. president with no prior military or government service. The 2017“2019 special counsel investigation established that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to favor his campaign. Trump promoted conspiracy theories and made many false and misleading statements during his campaigns and presidency, to a degree unprecedented in American politics. Many of his comments and actions have been characterized as racially charged or racist and many as misogynistic
Georgia , GA, USA, United States of America
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,England,London,city,centre,central,historic,diet,controlling,control,controlled,habit,habits,now,vintage,restaurant,diner,from,rural,United States,of,America,USA,Americana,US,American,stressed,distressed,worn,tired,supersize,me,disorder,disorders,antique,cold cathode,corrosion,Weight Watchers,1970s
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R3Y9B3 - . Rusty neon sign - EAT - Vintage Restaurant Sign from rural United States USA. Photographed on 21 May 2023, this spring image records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include London, central, historic, diet, controlling, control, controlled, habit, habits, now, vintage, restaurant, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The wording and graphic design are important parts of the image, preserving contemporary language, typography, branding or campaigning material that may later disappear or change. Prominent wording, signage, posters, logos or other graphic material gives the photograph additional documentary value because it records how an organisation, campaign, business or place communicated with the public at that moment. Text and branding visible in a streetscape can be especially useful for editorial comparison after rebranding, closure, redevelopment or policy change. Food and drink content broadens the image's relevance to eating out, grocery retail, hospitality, pricing, consumer choice, local food culture and the commercial presentation of meals, ingredients or products. It can illustrate changing tastes, inflation and cost-of-living pressures, food retail competition, traditional businesses and the everyday economics of buying food and drink where those themes are relevant. The frame provides a detailed documentary record of the subject as it appeared at the time of photography, preserving the surrounding context as well as the principal feature. Its value is both descriptive and editorial, allowing the scene to illustrate news, features, local history, travel, social change and retrospective comparison. The composition retains practical contextual detail for news, feature, documentary, educational and historical use.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,British,city,centre,Merseyside,L3 4AF,L3,Royal Albert Dock,Pier Head,Liverpool,port,sail,sailor,sailors,the,dock,docks,America,manhole,cover,at,Tate,art,artwork,Jeon Joonho,News from Nowhere,William Morris,leaves,vine,vines,gallery,covers,rust,rusty,rusting
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R22XM1 - Grid covers
One of these covers was installed over an existing drain at the entrance to Tate Modern in 2019, while another could be found inside the gallery itself. They stood for the thin cover that we place over the dirty and chaotic parts of our world that must exist to allow civilisation to function. The exhibition also demonstrated links between Liverpool and Jeon's home city of Busan in South Korea. Both were powerful ports 100 years ago, but suffered decline in the 20th century, followed by a culture and heritage-fronted resurgence at the 21st century got under way.
The metal grid is embedded in the pavement outside Tate Liverpool at the Albert Dock. It is decorated with intertwining vine-like branches, and in the centre is the phrase My future will reflect a new world . There's a spider's web and a few other things floating round (perhaps berries or pollen grains).
Art at the Dock
The proximity to Tate Liverpool isn't coincidental. This installation is part of a wider collaboration between artists Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, under the banner ˜News from Nowhere'
News From Nowhere is the name of a novel by the very same William Morris I mentioned in the first paragraph. In the novel, the Victorian protagonist is mysteriously catapulted into the 21st century, and his conversations with the futuristic inhabitants act as a satire and comment on the inequalities and rampant industrialisation of Morris's own time (and there lies the connection with the bookshop).
Moon and Jeon's collaboration arose from conversations between the two artists over art's role in the world. They were fed up [with] wasteful art installations and art production . Part of their News From Nowhere collaboration is a piece of video called El Fin del Mondo (End of the World) which reminds us that the future is no yet written, though we in the present are writing it all the time. Therefore, art can have a very important place in deciding the direction of the world as a whole.
Royal Albert Dock, Pier Head, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L3 4AF
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Keywords: grave,church,graveyard,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,America,USA,Even,amidst,the,can be planted,last,resting,place,of,wife,Ted Hughes,village,Calderdale,novelist,writer,Yorkshire,England,UK,St Thomas The Apostle,12,Becketts Close,Hebden Bridge,West Yorkshire,HX7 7LJ,HX6,The Colossus and Other Poems,suicide,death,Ariel,depression,depressed,poetry,dramatic
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PHGEEP - Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 “ February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) and Ariel (1965), as well as The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963. The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth to receive this honour posthumously.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Plath graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts and the University of Cambridge, England, where she was a student at Newnham College. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956, and they lived together in the United States and then in England. Their relationship was tumultuous and, in her letters, Plath alleges abuse at his hands. They had two children before separating in 1962.
Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life, and was treated multiple times with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). She killed herself in 1963, 11/02/1963
12,Becketts Close, Heptonstall village, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England, UK, HX7 7LJ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,America,US,USA,Even,amidst,fierce flames,the,golden lotus,can be planted,last,resting,place,of,wife,Ted Hughes,village,Calderdale,novelist,writer,Yorkshire,England,UK,St Thomas The Apostle,church,12,Becketts Close,Heptonstall,Hebden Bridge,West Yorkshire,HX7 7LJ,HX6,The Colossus and Other Poems,suicide,death,Ariel,depression,depressed,poetry
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PHEHKT - Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 “ February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) and Ariel (1965), as well as The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963. The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth to receive this honour posthumously.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Plath graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts and the University of Cambridge, England, where she was a student at Newnham College. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956, and they lived together in the United States and then in England. Their relationship was tumultuous and, in her letters, Plath alleges abuse at his hands. They had two children before separating in 1962.
Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life, and was treated multiple times with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). She killed herself in 1963, 11/02/1963
12,Becketts Cl, Heptonstall, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, England, UK, HX7 7LJ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PHEJ14 - Moody black and white photograph of the final resting place of American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath Hughes in the churchyard extension beside St Thomas's Church at Heptonstall, near Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. The weathered stone headstone records her name and the years 1932 to 1963, together with the epitaph: Even amidst fierce flames, the golden lotus can be planted.
The gravestone stands among dense winter vegetation, wilted flowers and low plants, with neighbouring memorials leaning at different angles across the uneven burial ground. Bare trees and the dark outline of the church tower rise behind the graves beneath a heavy, cloudy sky. The wide-angle viewpoint and selective monochrome treatment create a sombre, atmospheric image reflecting themes of mortality, remembrance, literary tragedy and enduring creative influence.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Sylvia Plath became one of the most widely studied poets of the twentieth century. Her writing is closely associated with confessional poetry and explores identity, relationships, psychological distress, motherhood, death and personal transformation. Her best-known works include the novel The Bell Jar and poetry collections including The Colossus and the posthumously published Ariel.
Plath married English poet Ted Hughes and visited his family in the Calder Valley area. Following her death in London in 1963, she was buried at Heptonstall, where her grave has become an international destination for readers, writers, academics and literary tourists. Visitors frequently leave flowers, pens, notes and other small tributes beside the headstone.
The golden lotus inscription provides a powerful image of endurance, renewal and beauty emerging from suffering. It has become inseparable from the public memory of Plath and the continuing interpretation of her life and work.
The photograph is suitable for editorial features concerning Sylvia Plath, American literature, women writers, poetry heritage, literary p
12,Becketts Cl, Heptonstall, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, England, UK, HX7 7LJ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,station,train,trains,America,railways,railway,SantaFe,SP,Southern pacific,enthusiast,with,modeller,hobby,gricer,gricers,enthusiasts,modellers,model rail layouts,model,layouts,layout,logo,logos,American,railroad,rail road,New York,NY USA,room,large
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JX2W9T - . This authentic period view of Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1 in 2022 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The principal subject is USA American railways layout, Model railroad, at Crewe heritage centre, Cheshire, England, UK, CW1, with modeller. Other connected aspects include regional identity, rail operations, historical comparison, historic townscape, local character, historic rolling stock, adaptive reuse, mixed-use redevelopment, archival record, changing streetscape, period detail, rail transport history, industrial railway, and mechanical signalling. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into rail reform and network modernisation, not least because of the importance of preserving signal boxes and rolling stock as industrial heritage. Today's relevance is strengthened by planning, construction costs and the continuing question of how regeneration tries to create reasons to visit traditional town centres. For later comparison, the photograph preserves local activity and public use at Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1, details that may look very different after different community use. A second descriptive layer includes before-and-after reference, place identity, rail infrastructure, local history, community identity, urban regeneration, documentary photography, and social history. The combination of layout, heritage, modeller, Crewe, and centre anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. By fixing the subject within Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The setting also helps illustrate rail reform and how Crewe's identity remains tied to railway engineering and operations as part of the longer story of Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1. The scene captures evidence of earlier appearance for future local research.
Crewe,Cheshire,England,UK, CW1
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Lancashire,England,UK,the,presents,US,USA,America,dancers,tel,telephone,01253,tiles,tiled,former,cinema,movie,house,nightclub,seedy,entertaining,party,partying,girls,women,woman,lap,dancing,for,money,cash,erotic,den,of,iniquity,vice
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JREBKY - . An identifiable period record of Albert Road, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 4PW in 2022, retaining practical detail and local context that distinguish documentary photography from a generic illustration. At the centre of the view is Fallen Angels, The Dragons Den, Albert Road, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 4PW - presents American Style Table Dancing. Another layer of the photograph includes town-centre economy, roadside transit, street-level business, public transport stop, changing streetscape, local bus network, street-side transport, commercial streetscape, archival record, mixed-use town centre, local mobility, contemporary social history, retail property, and regional identity. The wider contemporary story combines store closures, brand consolidation and how physical retail adapts to online competition. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with service frequency, passenger information and the shift toward cleaner vehicles and integrated ticketing. For later comparison, the photograph preserves local activity and public use at Albert Road, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 4PW, details that may look very different after closure or conversion. The wider setting retains connections with passenger transport, public-transport wayfinding, high-street commerce, local character, independent trading, local history, historical comparison, and public realm. The combination of Dancing, Angels, Table, presents, and Albert anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. By fixing the subject within Albert Road, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 4PW, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. A further contemporary connection is store closures and how physical retail adapts to online competition within the specific setting of Albert Road, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 4PW.
Albert Road, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, FY1 4PW
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Keywords: GotonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,busy,people,passing,American Candy Shop,Piccadilly,London,England,UK,at night,night,dusk,evening,at,in,the,America,US,USA,Circus,time,nighttime,Hershey,Hersheys,chocolate,business,rate,rates,snacks,and,sweets,confectionary,tacky,American Candy World,American Candy Land,Candy Surprise
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JKGJC6 - . This authentic period view of the recorded location in 2022 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The main point of reference is American Candy Shop, Piccadilly, London, England, UK, at night. Further facets of the scene include local trading, shopfront economy, customer footfall, specialist retailer, changing land use, before-and-after reference, town-centre economy, contemporary social history, high-street commerce, changing streetscape, regional identity, retail property, commercial streetscape, and local character. For current editorial use, town-centre regeneration and independent business provide additional context, especially through how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses and branding. Small period details of transport arrangements and footfall at the recorded location may become more significant with time, particularly following redevelopment. The wider setting retains connections with local history, independent retail, place identity, archival record, local enterprise, public realm, visual archive, and small business. The recorded references to Candy, American, Piccadilly, London, and night preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The subject itself supplies the location context here: American Candy Shop, Piccadilly, London, England, UK, at night is preserved in image 2JKGJC6 as a dated piece of material, social or visual history. The scene further reflects town-centre regeneration and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses and branding when considered against later change at the recorded location. Its period value extends to commercial rents and the resilience of independent shops in an online retail economy without losing the local specificity of the recorded location. The record includes a point of historical comparison for later comparison.
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,Miami FL,America,sign,lights,in lights,United States of America,Harry Sharland,Childrens,Children,Blakemere,Village,CW8,ride,rides,amusements,fairs,light,FL,FLA,Florida,in,the,Sharlands,name,state,county,children,kids,family,retail,cash,travelling,Chester Road
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2J92PGG - . This location-specific image from Blakemere Village, Chester Rd, Northwich, Cheshire,England, UK, CW8 2EB in 2022 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The subject captured here is Miami Ride Sign, Harry Sharlands Fun Fair, Blakemere Village, Chester Rd, Northwich, Cheshire,England, UK, CW8 2EB. The image also relates to commercial frontage, period detail, high-street commerce, informal play space, interactive public realm, family recreation, destination retail, customer footfall, open-air leisure, community recreation, city-centre public space, shopfront economy, retail chain, and pedestrian square. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with heatwaves, inclusive design and the importance of inclusive spaces that serve residents as well as visitors. The modern context includes continuing discussion of commercial rents, town-centre regeneration and the role of large retailers in town-centre and edge-of-centre economies. For later comparison, the photograph preserves signage and branding at Blakemere Village, Chester Rd, Northwich, Cheshire,England, UK, CW8 2EB, details that may look very different after closure or conversion. Other useful contextual ideas include summer city life, local character, commercial streetscape, brand-led retail, consumer retail, physical store, town-centre economy, and public-realm activation. Details involving Harry, Northwich, Sharlands, Village, and Chester make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. For Blakemere Village, Chester Rd, Northwich, Cheshire,England, UK, CW8 2EB, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. It also preserves details of everyday use within the wider story of Blakemere Village, Chester Rd, Northwich, Cheshire,England, UK, CW8 2EB.
Blakemere Village, Chester Rd, Northwich, Cheshire,England, UK, CW8 2EB
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Burtonwood,RAF,WA5,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK,WA5 9YZ,America,US,air force,showing,rank,service,personnel,services,armed,cold war,airbase,jackets,jacket,labels,lapel,blue,true,award,awards,awarded,ranks,ranked,history,historic,heritage
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3XNKN - . An on-location photograph from RAF Burtonwood, Warrington , Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 9YZ in 2019, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The defining feature is US air force uniform Jacket, showing rank stationed at RAF Burtonwood, Warrington , Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 9YZ. The surrounding context encompasses mass transit, historical comparison, social history, rail modernisation, station environment, documentary photography, public realm, everyday life, visual archive, rail mobility, local history, archival record, changing streetscape, and regional rail. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into station investment and public ownership, not least because of the role of public transport in reducing congestion and emissions. The archival value lies partly in recording local activity and public use around RAF Burtonwood, Warrington , Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 9YZ before redevelopment alters the character of the place. The wider setting retains connections with community identity, rail infrastructure, contemporary social history, place identity, integrated transport, railway branding, public transport network, and passenger railway. The combination of Burtonwood, uniform, stationed, Jacket, and force anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. The wider setting at RAF Burtonwood, Warrington , Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 9YZ matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. A further contemporary connection is station investment and the role of public transport in reducing congestion and emissions within the real-world context of RAF Burtonwood, Warrington , Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 9YZ. The scene captures a local visual benchmark for future local research. The period view preserves a point of historical comparison before later change alters the scene.
RAF Burtonwood, Warrington , Cheshire, England, UK, WA5 9YZ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,NYC,New York City,St Marks Place,New York St Marks Place,street,New York Street,USA,America,City Centre,city,centre,center,city center,New York Travel Tourism,store,stores,cigar,tobacconist,cigars,Cigars,pipes,tabs,smokes,cigs,Havana,Havanas,Cuban,lit,lights,shops,retail,smoking,expensive,unhealthy
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF05C - Smoking is a practice in which a substance is burned and the resulting smoke breathed in to be tasted and absorbed into the bloodstream. Most commonly the substance is the dried leaves of the tobacco plant which have been rolled into a small square of rice paper to create a small, round cylinder called a cigarette. Smoking is primarily practiced as a route of administration for recreational drug use because the combustion of the dried plant leaves vaporizes and delivers active substances into the lungs where they are rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream and reach bodily tissue. In the case of cigarette smoking these substances are contained in a mixture of aerosol particles and gasses and include the pharmacologically active alkaloid nicotine
the vaporization creates heated aerosol and gas into a form that allows inhalation and deep penetration into the lungs where absorption into the bloodstream of the active substances occurs. In some cultures, smoking is also carried out as a part of various rituals, where participants use it to help induce trance-like states that, they believe, can lead them to spiritual enlightenment.
Smoking generally has negative health effects, because smoke inhalation inherently poses challenges to various physiologic processes such as respiration. Diseases related to tobacco smoking have been shown to kill approximately half of long-term smokers when compared to average mortality rates faced by non-smokers. Smoking caused over five million deaths a year from 1990 to 2015.
Smoking is one of the most common forms of recreational drug use. Tobacco smoking is the most popular form, being practiced by over one billion people globally, of whom the majority are in the developing countries. Less common drugs for smoking include cannabis and opium. Some of the substances are classified as hard narcotics, like heroin, but the use of these is very limited as they are usually not commercially available.
Manhattan, New York City, NYC, USA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,NOHO NYC,NYC,New York City,St Marks Place,St Marks Place NYC,New York St Marks Place,street,New York Street,USA,America,city,centre,center,city center,East Village,Eastvillage,Block Drug Store,Block,Drugstore,Drug Store,chemist,shop,Chemist Shop,New York Travel Tourism,store,stores,Block Drugstores pharmacy frontage,in red,NY 10003,exterior,American Drug store,Block Drug Company,Russia,Russian,Alexander Block,neighbourhoods,1970s
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF05F - stock-photo/gotonysmith-Block.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>Block Drug Company was a pharmaceutical company based in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, that specialized in dental care products. Its most popular products included Polident denture cleanser, Poli-Grip denture adhesive, Dentu-Creme denture toothpaste, Nytol sleeping pill, Tegrin medicated shampoo for psoriasis, Lava hand soaps (acquired from Procter & Gamble), Beano and Phazyme anti-gas products, Balmex diaper rash ointments, and Sensodyne desensitizing toothpaste.
GlaxoSmithKline purchased the company for $1.24 billion in 2001.
The company was founded in 1907 by Alexander Block, a Russian immigrant who had a small drugstore on Fulton Street in Brooklyn, New York. He turned the company into a wholesaler in 1915, then became a drug manufacturer in 1925, acquiring a 50 percent interest in Wernet's Dental Manufacturing Company.
Block Drug moved its headquarters to Jersey City, New Jersey in 1938.
Although Alexander Block built the company largely through acquisitions, he developed the Polident brand internally during the 1930s. In 1948, Block Drug rolled out the Ammi-i-Dent tooth powder, and in the early 1950s, the company developed Nytol. After Alexander Block's death in 1953, his son Leonard N. Block (1911“2005) took over, eventually becoming the company's chairman. The last major new product the company introduced was Tegrin, in 1964.
Although Block Drug was a public company from 1971 until 2001, it operated much like a private, family-run firm, with the Block family holding all voting shares plus 54 percent of the non-voting stock. In addition, the company never held annual meetings or issued proxy statements
Leonard N. Block died in 2005 at age 93 after suffering for years from Alzheimer's disease. Block's nephew John P. Roberts was the producer of the Woodstock Festival using money from his Block inheritance.
101 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003, USA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,NYC,New York City,street,USA,America,City Centre,city,centre,center,city center,Eastvillage,store,stores,shop,25 St Marks Pl A,New York,NY 10003,sign,Search and Destroy,2nd hand clothing,second hand Clothing,NY,10003,used clothes,used,secondhand,clothes,dolls,shop window,display,doll heads,dolls heads,Come get your ass blasted,Loud speakers,East Village,New York St Marks Place,St Marks Place
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF05G - . An editorial view records the visible identity of 25 St Marks Place A, New York, NY 10003, USA, as photographed in 2018. The documentary focus is Search and Destroy second hand Clothing shop, 25 St Marks Place , New York, NY 10003, USA. The location can also be described in terms of commercial frontage, independent retail, shopping habits, consumer retail, retail property, shopfront economy, chain-store economy, retail vacancy, retail decline and renewal, local trading, city-centre economy, and consumer spending. Current debate around independent trading often combines brand consolidation, shifts in leisure spending and the practical challenge of mixed-use town centres. Because this is a time-specific record of 25 St Marks Place A, New York, NY 10003, USA, later comparison can reveal changes in signage, ownership, land use, transport, street furniture, building condition and the way the public uses the surrounding space. The location additionally reflects town-centre trading, urban commerce, customer footfall, commercial streetscape, storefront culture, shopping district. Associated details include St Marks Place NYC, New York St Marks Place, New York Street, New York Travel Tourism, used clothing, East Village. A more expansive reading adds bricks-and-mortar retail, and high-street commerce. The wider contemporary story of independent trading now includes changing footfall alongside shifts in leisure spending, while policy and investment increasingly consider mixed-use town centres. The combination preserved here provides evidence of public activity, period design, the appearance of the built environment, local character, and changes of use as part of the area's longer social history. That gives this view of 25 St Marks Place A, New York, NY 10003, USA continuing value for local history, retrospective reporting and visual comparison. Details around 25 St Marks Place A, New York, NY 10003, USA strengthen its value as a dated record of the place.
25 St Marks Place A, New York, NY 10003, USA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF05H - . A place-specific photograph places on record the visible identity of the recorded location, in documentary coverage dating from 2018. The location is represented through Saint Marks Place, Piercing, Flesh Center, tattoo, east Village, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA. Related ideas embodied by the location include shopfront economy, bricks-and-mortar retail, shopping district, historic built environment, architectural heritage, heritage streetscape, period architecture, built heritage, consumer retail, urban commerce, local trading, and retail property. The wider contemporary story of consumer spending now includes shifts in leisure spending alongside brand consolidation, while policy and investment increasingly consider adaptable commercial space. Current debate around heritage assets often combines adaptive reuse, redevelopment pressure and the practical challenge of keeping older buildings useful. The photograph fixes the recorded location at one identifiable stage in its history, providing a reference against which later refurbishment, closure, demolition, conversion, new ownership or altered public use can be assessed, specifically in relation to Saint Marks Place. The location additionally reflects townscape identity, commercial streetscape, consumer spending, retail vacancy, storefront culture, adaptive reuse. Further recorded details include New York St Marks Place, flesh centre, Saint Marks Place tattoo, St Marks Place tattoo. A second layer of description includes traditional building, historic townscape, town-centre trading, conservation interest, independent retail, city-centre economy, historic environment, local landmark, architectural character, and commercial frontage. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, commercial property also connects with brand consolidation, hybrid working and efforts aimed at stronger local footfall. The view additionally fixes a moment in the site's history as a historical reference.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,NOHO NYC,NYC,New York City,St Marks Place,New York St Marks Place,street,USA,America,City Centre,city,centre,center,city center,East Village,New York Travel Tourism,Loud speakers,dolls heads,secondhand,NY,10003,Search and Destroy,sign,2nd hand clothing,25 St Marks Pl A,store,Come get your ass blasted,doll heads,dolls,clothes,display,used clothes,used,second hand Clothing,NY 10003,shop,New York,stores
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF05N - . This descriptive scene shows the physical context of 25 St Marks Place A, New York, NY 10003, USA, in an image captured in 2018. Within that setting the photograph concentrates on Search and Destroy second hand Clothing shop, 25 St Marks Place , New York, NY 10003, USA. The location can also be described in terms of independent retail, shopping habits, consumer retail, commercial frontage, local trading, city-centre economy, bricks-and-mortar retail, storefront culture, chain-store economy, shopfront economy, retail property, and customer footfall. For present-day editorial use, town-centre commerce can also illustrate debates about shifts in leisure spending and changing footfall, particularly where these affect mixed-use town centres. Over time, this view of 25 St Marks Place A, New York, NY 10003, USA can support local-history and planning research by preserving details of appearance, occupation, signage, public access and everyday use that written records may omit. The surrounding context also touches on retail vacancy, town-centre trading, consumer spending, shopping district, retail decline and renewal, commercial streetscape. Further recorded details include East Village, New York Travel Tourism, New York St Marks Place, NOHO NYC, St Marks Place NYC, New York Street. Other relevant facets include high-street commerce, and urban commerce. In the mid-2020s, consumer spending is increasingly discussed through online shopping and operating costs, with attention turning to mixed-use town centres. The lasting documentary value lies in its record of the appearance of the built environment, period design, changes of use, local character, and public activity within the surrounding area. For future comparison, the scene preserves commercial identity, signage and branding, community life, local continuity, and physical infrastructure as part of the area's longer social history.
25 St Marks Place A, New York, NY 10003, USA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,NOHO NYC,NYC,New York City,street,New York Street,USA,America,City Centre,city,centre,center,city center,Eastvillage,New York Travel Tourism,store,stores,wash,washing,Cosmo,Cosmos,Launderama,clothes,Dolly Tub,inner city,downtown,drop off,service,services,inc,dollytub,machine,machines,busy
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF05R - . A local-history photograph shows a moment within 142 1st Avenue #9, New York, NY 10009, USA, in a 2018 record. The source caption identifies Cosmo Launderama, launderette, 142 1st Avenue #9, New York, NY 10009, USA. Other closely connected aspects of the subject are shopping district, local trading, commercial frontage, high-street commerce, town-centre trading, storefront culture, retail decline and renewal, bricks-and-mortar retail, city-centre economy, commercial streetscape, urban commerce, and independent retail. Modern coverage of physical shops frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of shifts in leisure spending, brand consolidation and bringing empty units back into use. Documentary value is strengthened by the precise setting at 142 1st Avenue #9, New York, NY 10009, USA, where even ordinary details of frontage, equipment, signs, traffic or public activity may disappear as the area evolves. The resulting scene connects with consumer spending, retail property, chain-store economy, retail vacancy, shopping habits, customer footfall. The scene is further associated with St Marks Place, St Marks Place NYC, New York St Marks Place, East Village. A more expansive reading adds shopfront economy, and consumer retail. For present-day editorial use, town-centre commerce can also illustrate debates about online shopping and hybrid working, particularly where these affect heritage-led regeneration. The combination preserved here provides evidence of community life, signage and branding, physical infrastructure, local continuity, and commercial identity without relying on a generic or reconstructed view. As the location changes, the frame remains a reference for movement through the area, everyday services, historic fabric, planning and redevelopment, and social change in a form that can be compared with later photographs. The documentary frame records the character of the setting against later redevelopment.
142 1st Avenue #9, New York, NY 10009, USA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,NOHO NYC,NYC,New York City,St Marks Place,St Marks Place NYC,street,New York Street,USA,America,City Centre,city,centre,center,city center,East Village,Eastvillage,New York Travel Tourism,store,stores,in New York,Jew,bakers,baking,Kosher Baking,Moishes Kosher Bake Shop 115 2nd Ave,Manhattan,New York,shop,retail,Moishes,2nd Ave,Manhattan New York,Best Jewish Bakery,babka,flaky rugelach,doughy challah
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF060 - . A place-specific photograph preserves the social and built context of 115 2nd Ave, New York, NY, USA, in a time-specific record from 2018. The scene is specifically associated with Moishes Kosher Bake Shop 115 2nd Ave, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NYC, USA. The wider setting includes retail vacancy, shopping habits, retail property, shopping district, town-centre trading, independent retail, retail decline and renewal, storefront culture, bricks-and-mortar retail, commercial frontage, city-centre economy, and commercial streetscape. The wider contemporary story of commercial property now includes operating costs alongside hybrid working, while policy and investment increasingly consider heritage-led regeneration. Small period details preserved at 115 2nd Ave, New York, NY, USA may become historically important as commercial occupants, public services, infrastructure and the built environment change, making the image useful for retrospective editorial coverage. The scene also relates to high-street commerce, urban commerce, customer footfall, shopfront economy, chain-store economy, local trading. Further recorded details include Kosher baker, Jewish baking, Jewish bakery, Jewish Immigrants, New York St Marks Place, 115 2nd Avenue. Further aspects present in the subject include consumer retail, and consumer spending. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, independent trading also connects with vacant premises, brand consolidation and efforts aimed at mixed-use town centres. The combination preserved here provides evidence of period design, the appearance of the built environment, changes of use, local character, and public activity within the surrounding area. As the location changes, the frame remains a reference for local continuity, signage and branding, community life, commercial identity, and physical infrastructure as part of the area's longer social history.
115 2nd Ave, New York, NY, USA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,NYC,New York St Marks Place,street,New York Street,USA,America,City Centre,city,centre,center,city center,East Village,Eastvillage,New York Travel Tourism,store,stores,NY 10003,secondhand,shop window,dolls heads,Loud speakers,Come get your ass blasted,display,doll heads,dolls,clothes,used clothes,second hand Clothing,2nd hand clothing,NY,10003,25 St Marks Pl A,Search and Destroy,sign,shop
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF061 - . A contemporary documentary view records the working environment around the recorded location, in a photograph originating in 2018. The frame is associated with Search and Destroy second hand Clothing shop, 25 St Marks Place , New York, NY 10003, USA. The physical and social setting additionally connects with retail vacancy, shopping habits, shopfront economy, storefront culture, city-centre economy, high-street commerce, retail property, customer footfall, consumer spending, consumer retail, urban commerce, and town-centre trading. Current debate around physical shops often combines online shopping, vacant premises and the practical challenge of bringing empty units back into use. The date and location give the photograph archival strength: future views of the recorded location may show different businesses, branding, services, architecture, traffic patterns or redevelopment, allowing clear before-and-after comparison, specifically in relation to Search and Destroy second hand Clothing shop. The view also records themes involving shopping district, retail decline and renewal, independent retail, commercial streetscape, chain-store economy, local trading. Further recorded details include St Marks Place NYC, New York City, NOHO NYC. Its context additionally embraces commercial frontage, and bricks-and-mortar retail. The wider contemporary story of independent trading now includes operating costs alongside changing footfall, while policy and investment increasingly consider mixed-use town centres. Taken together, these details make the photograph a useful record of local character, the appearance of the built environment, public activity, period design, and changes of use without relying on a generic or reconstructed view. The combination preserved here provides evidence of community life, local continuity, signage and branding, commercial identity, and physical infrastructure in a form that can be compared with later photographs.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,NOHO NYC,NYC,New York City,St Marks Place,St Marks Place NYC,street,New York Street,USA,America,City Centre,city,centre,center,city center,New York Travel Tourism,shop,cafe,poster,front,shopfront,inner city,downtown,streetart,spray,spraycan,expression,neighborhood,graffiti,art,Manhattan,East Village,attraction,tourist,tourism
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF065 - . A place-specific photograph preserves the physical context of the recorded location, in a documentary image made in 2018. Within that setting the photograph concentrates on Physical Graffiti Tea Shop, St Marks, Graffitea, East Village, Manhattan, NYC,NY, USA. Other closely connected aspects of the subject are bricks-and-mortar retail, retail decline and renewal, chain-store economy, creative regeneration, tourism economy, consumer retail, food-and-drink business, urban commerce, hospitality premises, destination economy, public art, and shopping district. The wider contemporary story of retail streets now includes changing footfall alongside brand consolidation, while policy and investment increasingly consider mixed-use town centres. Current debate around community artwork often combines regeneration, public-realm investment and the practical challenge of recording temporary artwork. In the mid-2020s, local dining is increasingly discussed through changing visitor patterns and staffing, with attention turning to sustainable tourism. The photograph fixes the recorded location at one identifiable stage in its history, providing a reference against which later refurbishment, closure, demolition, conversion, new ownership or altered public use can be assessed, specifically in relation to Physical Graffiti Tea Shop. The view also records themes involving visitor economy, temporary artwork, illustrated hoarding, visitor destination, high-street commerce, art-led regeneration. Associated details include New York St Marks Place, Eastvillage. A second layer of description includes customer service, commercial frontage, restaurant sector, shopping habits, food culture, city-centre economy, commercial streetscape, hospitality trade, catering trade, and local trading. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, high-street retail also connects with hybrid working, changing footfall and efforts aimed at bringing empty units back into use.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,NOHO NYC,NYC,New York City,New York St Marks Place,street,New York Street,USA,America,City Centre,city,centre,center,city center,East Village,Eastvillage,ATM,Cash Machine,AutoTeller,Auto Teller,New York Travel Tourism,US Street ATM,Hyosung ATM,Saint Marks Place,Manhattan,NY,US,Street ATM,Hyosung,St Marks Place,urbn,automation,automated,dollars
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF066 - A company of dedicated professionals who continually innovate automated products and self-service solutions for the financial and retail industries. And we believe we do it better than anyone else.
Why?
We invent and apply real solutions that work
We focus on excellence in customer service
We continually evolve and improve our products and ourselves
Nautilus Hyosung America is a subsidiary of South Korea Hyosung, Inc., a global leader in self-service solutions to the retail off-premises and financial institution markets. Our headquarters is located in Irving, Texas and we have research and development support at our Global Software Center in Dayton, Ohio.
Where ingenuity meets agility.
We are proud to say our software and hardware developers are ingenious, original, and inventive in applying new ideas that solve problems and meet challenges for our customers. In both business and software development, we possess the ability to rapidly and efficiently adapt to change. We think these two qualities make the ideal combination to ensure our continued success and the success of our customers.
Saint Marks Place, East Village, Manhattan, New York City, NYC, NY , USA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,St Marks Place,St Marks Place NYC,New York St Marks Place,street,New York Street,USA,America,City Centre,city,centre,center,city center,New York Travel Tourism,open Today,East Village,New York,NYC,Psychic,tea room,Psychology,exploring the mind,EastVillage,manhattan,NY,pink,A-Board,advert,advertising,cheap,$10,ten dollar,special,fortune telling,fortune teller,mystic,supernatural
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF067 - . An editorial view sets out the physical context of the recorded location, in a time-specific record from 2018. Within that setting the photograph concentrates on open Today, Psychic tea room, Psychology, exploring the mind, East Village, manhattan, New York, NYC, NY, USA. The location also connects place and memory, documentary photography, local character, community environment, everyday Britain, social context, contemporary social history, everyday infrastructure, documentary record, place-based history, changing Britain, and public realm. Current debate around social history often combines redevelopment, business turnover and the practical challenge of before-and-after study. Small period details preserved at the recorded location may become historically important as commercial occupants, public services, infrastructure and the built environment change, making the image useful for retrospective editorial coverage, specifically in relation to open Today. The resulting scene connects with social landscape, urban and rural change, regional identity, local identity, community life, visual record. Associated details include NOHO NYC, New York City, Eastvillage. Other relevant facets include cultural landscape, and modern history. The wider contemporary story of regional identity now includes changing use alongside redevelopment, while policy and investment increasingly consider a clearer record of local change. As the location changes, the frame remains a reference for ownership or occupation, neighbourhood identity, architecture and streetscape, transport patterns, and public access as part of the area's longer social history. In historical comparison, the image can help trace patterns of everyday use, local business activity, the condition of buildings, public-realm details, and regional identity without relying on a generic or reconstructed view. The frame further records period appearance for visual before-and-after study.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,NYC,New York City,street,New York Street,USA,America,City Centre,city,centre,center,city center,Eastvillage,New York Travel Tourism,Manhattan,New York,NY,T-Shirt on male,T-Shirt,male,man,painting,street painting,face look,expression,Adam MCA Yauch,Adam Yauch,musical icon,music icon,cancer,Hip Hop,rap Group,band,Young Aborigines,The Beastie Boys
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF06B - The Beastie Boys were an American hip hop group from New York City formed in 1981. The group comprised Michael Mike D Diamond (vocals, drums), Adam MCA Yauch (vocals, bass) and Adam Ad-Rock Horovitz (vocals, guitar).
The Beastie Boys were formed as a four-piece hardcore punk band, the Young Aborigines, in 1979 by Mike D (vocals), MCA (bass), John Berry (guitar) and Kate Schellenbach (drums). They appeared on the compilation cassette New York Thrash, contributing two songs from their first EP, Polly Wog Stew, in 1982. Berry left shortly thereafter and was replaced by Horovitz. After achieving local success with the 1983 experimental hip hop single Cooky Puss, the Beastie Boys made a full transition to hip hop, and Schellenbach left the group soon after. They toured with Madonna in 1985 and a year later released their debut album Licensed to Ill. It was followed by Paul's Boutique, Check Your Head, Ill Communication, Hello Nasty, To the 5 Boroughs, The Mix-Up, and Hot Sauce Committee Part Two.
The Beastie Boys have sold 26 million records in the United States and 50 million records worldwide, making them the biggest-selling rap group since Billboard began recording sales in 1991. With seven platinum-selling albums from 1986 to 2004,[4] the Beastie Boys were one of the longest-lived hip hop acts worldwide. In 2012, they became the third rap group to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In the same year, MCA died of cancer. In 2014, Mike D confirmed that Beastie Boys had disbanded.
86, East 7th Street, East Village, Manhattan, New York City, NYC, NY, USA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,NOHO NYC,NYC,New York City,St Marks Place,St Marks Place NYC,New York St Marks Place,street,New York Street,USA,America,City Centre,city,centre,center,city center,East Village,Eastvillage,Block Drug Store,Block,Drugstore,Drug Store,chemist,shop,Chemist Shop,New York Travel Tourism,Block Drugstores pharmacy frontage,in red,NY 10003,exterior,American Drug store,Block Drug Company,Russia,Russian,Alexander Block,weight loss drugs,neighbourhoods
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF06C - stock-photo/gotonysmith-Block.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>Block Drug Company was a pharmaceutical company based in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, that specialized in dental care products. Its most popular products included Polident denture cleanser, Poli-Grip denture adhesive, Dentu-Creme denture toothpaste, Nytol sleeping pill, Tegrin medicated shampoo for psoriasis, Lava hand soaps (acquired from Procter & Gamble), Beano and Phazyme anti-gas products, Balmex diaper rash ointments, and Sensodyne desensitizing toothpaste.
GlaxoSmithKline purchased the company for $1.24 billion in 2001.
The company was founded in 1907 by Alexander Block, a Russian immigrant who had a small drugstore on Fulton Street in Brooklyn, New York. He turned the company into a wholesaler in 1915, then became a drug manufacturer in 1925, acquiring a 50 percent interest in Wernet's Dental Manufacturing Company.
Block Drug moved its headquarters to Jersey City, New Jersey in 1938.
Although Alexander Block built the company largely through acquisitions, he developed the Polident brand internally during the 1930s. In 1948, Block Drug rolled out the Ammi-i-Dent tooth powder, and in the early 1950s, the company developed Nytol. After Alexander Block's death in 1953, his son Leonard N. Block (1911“2005) took over, eventually becoming the company's chairman. The last major new product the company introduced was Tegrin, in 1964.
Although Block Drug was a public company from 1971 until 2001, it operated much like a private, family-run firm, with the Block family holding all voting shares plus 54 percent of the non-voting stock. In addition, the company never held annual meetings or issued proxy statements
Leonard N. Block died in 2005 at age 93 after suffering for years from Alzheimer's disease. Block's nephew John P. Roberts was the producer of the Woodstock Festival using money from his Block inheritance.
101 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003, USA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,NOHO NYC,NYC,New York City,St Marks Place,street,New York Street,USA,America,City Centre,city,centre,center,city center,Eastvillage,New York Travel Tourism,East 6th Street,NY,New York,tenements,Street,City,east side tenements,history,historic,the,states,classic,traditional,flat,flats,apartment,apartments,housing,crisis,inner city,downtown
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF06D - As the United States industrialized during the 19th century, immigrants and workers from the countryside were housed in former middle-class houses and other buildings, such as warehouses, which were bought up and divided into small dwellings. Beginning as early as the 1830s in New York City's Lower East Side or possibly the 1820s on Mott Street, three- and four-story buildings were converted into railroad flats, so called because the rooms were linked together like the cars of a train, with windowless internal rooms. The adapted buildings were also known as rookeries, and these were a particular concern, as they were prone to collapse and fire. Mulberry Bend and Five Points were the sites of notorious rookeries that the city worked for decades to clear. In both rookeries and purpose-built tenements, communal water taps and water closets (either privies or school sinks, which opened into a vault that often became clogged) were squeezed into the small open spaces between buildings. In parts of the Lower East Side, buildings were older and had courtyards, generally occupied by machine shops, stables, and other businesses.
Lower East Side tenement buildings
Such tenements were particularly prevalent in New York, where in 1865 a report stated that 500,000 people lived in unhealthy tenements, whereas in Boston in 1845, less than a quarter of workers were housed in tenements. One reason New York had so many tenements was the large numbers of immigrants
another was that the grid plan on which streets were laid out, and the economic practice of building on individual 25- by 100-foot lots, combined to produce high land coverage. Prior to 1867, tenements often covered more than 90 percent of the lot, were five or six stories high, and had 18 rooms per floor, of which only two received direct sunlight. Yards were a few feet wide and often filled with privies. Interior rooms were unventilated.
East 6th Street, East Village, Manhattan, New York City, NYC, NY, USA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,NOHO NYC,NYC,New York City,St Marks Place,St Marks Place NYC,New York St Marks Place,street,New York Street,USA,America,City Centre,city,centre,center,city center,East Village,Eastvillage,Block Drug Store,Block,Drugstore,Drug Store,chemist,shop,Chemist Shop,New York Travel Tourism,store,stores,Block Drugstores pharmacy frontage,NY 10003,exterior,American Drug store,Block Drug Company,Russia,Russian,Alexander Block,neighbourhood,1970s
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF06F - stock-photo/gotonysmith-Block.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>Block Drug Company was a pharmaceutical company based in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, that specialized in dental care products. Its most popular products included Polident denture cleanser, Poli-Grip denture adhesive, Dentu-Creme denture toothpaste, Nytol sleeping pill, Tegrin medicated shampoo for psoriasis, Lava hand soaps (acquired from Procter & Gamble), Beano and Phazyme anti-gas products, Balmex diaper rash ointments, and Sensodyne desensitizing toothpaste.
GlaxoSmithKline purchased the company for $1.24 billion in 2001.
The company was founded in 1907 by Alexander Block, a Russian immigrant who had a small drugstore on Fulton Street in Brooklyn, New York. He turned the company into a wholesaler in 1915, then became a drug manufacturer in 1925, acquiring a 50 percent interest in Wernet's Dental Manufacturing Company.
Block Drug moved its headquarters to Jersey City, New Jersey in 1938.
Although Alexander Block built the company largely through acquisitions, he developed the Polident brand internally during the 1930s. In 1948, Block Drug rolled out the Ammi-i-Dent tooth powder, and in the early 1950s, the company developed Nytol. After Alexander Block's death in 1953, his son Leonard N. Block (1911“2005) took over, eventually becoming the company's chairman. The last major new product the company introduced was Tegrin, in 1964.
Although Block Drug was a public company from 1971 until 2001, it operated much like a private, family-run firm, with the Block family holding all voting shares plus 54 percent of the non-voting stock. In addition, the company never held annual meetings or issued proxy statements
Leonard N. Block died in 2005 at age 93 after suffering for years from Alzheimer's disease. Block's nephew John P. Roberts was the producer of the Woodstock Festival using money from his Block inheritance.
101 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003, USA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,NOHO NYC,NYC,New York City,St Marks Place,street,New York Street,USA,America,City Centre,city,centre,center,city center,Eastvillage,New York Travel Tourism,East 6th Street,NY,New York,tenements,Street,City,east side tenements,history,historic,the,states,classic,traditional,flat,flats,apartment,apartments,housing,crisis,inner city,downtown
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF06M - As the United States industrialized during the 19th century, immigrants and workers from the countryside were housed in former middle-class houses and other buildings, such as warehouses, which were bought up and divided into small dwellings. Beginning as early as the 1830s in New York City's Lower East Side or possibly the 1820s on Mott Street, three- and four-story buildings were converted into railroad flats, so called because the rooms were linked together like the cars of a train, with windowless internal rooms. The adapted buildings were also known as rookeries, and these were a particular concern, as they were prone to collapse and fire. Mulberry Bend and Five Points were the sites of notorious rookeries that the city worked for decades to clear. In both rookeries and purpose-built tenements, communal water taps and water closets (either privies or school sinks, which opened into a vault that often became clogged) were squeezed into the small open spaces between buildings. In parts of the Lower East Side, buildings were older and had courtyards, generally occupied by machine shops, stables, and other businesses.
Lower East Side tenement buildings
Such tenements were particularly prevalent in New York, where in 1865 a report stated that 500,000 people lived in unhealthy tenements, whereas in Boston in 1845, less than a quarter of workers were housed in tenements. One reason New York had so many tenements was the large numbers of immigrants
another was that the grid plan on which streets were laid out, and the economic practice of building on individual 25- by 100-foot lots, combined to produce high land coverage. Prior to 1867, tenements often covered more than 90 percent of the lot, were five or six stories high, and had 18 rooms per floor, of which only two received direct sunlight. Yards were a few feet wide and often filled with privies. Interior rooms were unventilated.
East 6th Street, East Village, Manhattan, New York City, NYC, NY, USA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,NOHO NYC,NYC,New York City,St Marks Place NYC,New York St Marks Place,street,New York Street,USA,America,City Centre,city,centre,center,city center,East Village,Eastvillage,New York Travel Tourism,NYC Best Burger,Best Burger,sign,neon,Beef,Beefburger,Beef Burger,patty,cafe,restaurant,diner,Manhattan,NY,beef,red white blue,shopfront,window,sign in window
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF06N - . A grounded editorial photograph captures the social and built context of the recorded location, as photographed in 2018. The source caption identifies New York Citys Best Burger neon sign, NYCs Best Burger, East Village, Manhattan, NY, USA. The wider setting includes leisure venue, visitor economy, consumer leisure, customer service, service economy, local dining, restaurant sector, food culture, visitor destination, destination economy, food-and-drink business, and tourist accommodation. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, local dining also connects with commercial rents, consumer spending and efforts aimed at stronger town-centre leisure economies. The photograph fixes the recorded location at one identifiable stage in its history, providing a reference against which later refurbishment, closure, demolition, conversion, new ownership or altered public use can be assessed, specifically in relation to New York Citys Best Burger neon sign. The broader context includes food service, catering trade, leisure hospitality, hospitality premises, hospitality trade, hospitality employment. Other local associations include Worlds Best Burger, hamburger, beefburger, New York City Best Burger neon sign, St Marks Place, Pauls. Modern coverage of food service frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of food and energy costs, seasonality and distinctive visitor experiences. Viewed retrospectively, the photograph can reveal signage and branding, physical infrastructure, local continuity, commercial identity, and community life as part of the area's longer social history. Taken together, these details make the photograph a useful record of planning and redevelopment, social change, movement through the area, everyday services, and historic fabric without relying on a generic or reconstructed view. The view of New York Citys Best Burger neon sign also preserves another layer of local identity and period change.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF06W - . A grounded editorial photograph depicts the working environment around the recorded location, in a scene preserved from 2018. The scene is specifically associated with New York Citys Best Burger neon sign, NYCs Best Burger, East Village, Manhattan, NY, USA. The location also connects hospitality premises, visitor destination, destination economy, service economy, food-and-drink business, food culture, leisure venue, visitor economy, food service, local dining, restaurant sector, and hospitality trade. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, customer-facing businesses also connects with commercial rents, seasonality and efforts aimed at sustainable tourism. Over time, this view of the recorded location can support local-history and planning research by preserving details of appearance, occupation, signage, public access and everyday use that written records may omit, specifically in relation to New York Citys Best Burger neon sign. The view also records themes involving consumer leisure, tourist accommodation, leisure hospitality, hospitality employment, customer service, tourism economy. Other local associations include Worlds Best Burger, hamburger, beefburger, New York City Best Burger neon sign, St Marks Place, Pauls. Modern coverage of restaurants and hotels frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of commercial rents, seasonality and distinctive visitor experiences. As the location changes, the frame remains a reference for signage and branding, local continuity, commercial identity, community life, and physical infrastructure at this precise location. In historical comparison, the image can help trace movement through the area, social change, planning and redevelopment, historic fabric, and everyday services within the surrounding area. That gives this view of the recorded location continuing value for local history, retrospective reporting and visual comparison, specifically in relation to New York Citys Best Burger neon sign.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF070 - . A grounded editorial photograph sets out the physical context of 86, East 7th Street, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA, in an image captured in 2018. The supplied image information identifies 7th St Village Farm inc store, 86, East 7th Street, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA. Other closely connected aspects of the subject are urban artwork, customer footfall, contemporary mural, community art, storefront culture, retail decline and renewal, commercial frontage, street-level design, shopping habits, shopfront economy, independent retail, and public realm art. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, retail streets also connects with hybrid working, shifts in leisure spending and efforts aimed at bringing empty units back into use. The wider contemporary story of public art now includes youth culture alongside temporary installations, while policy and investment increasingly consider stronger place identity. Over time, this view of 86, East 7th Street, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA can support local-history and planning research by preserving details of appearance, occupation, signage, public access and everyday use that written records may omit. The scene also relates to creative streetscape, local trading, temporary artwork, consumer spending, city artwork, city-centre economy. Other local associations include urban art, NOHO NYC, St Marks Place NYC, 86 East 7th Street, New York Travel Tourism, 7th Street Village Farm inc. The location further reflects graphic intervention, community expression, high-street commerce, street creativity, retail property, urban graphics, chain-store economy, art-led regeneration, mural culture, and visual placemaking. Modern coverage of consumer spending frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of vacant premises, brand consolidation and mixed-use town centres. The location view retains the area's visual identity for visual before-and-after study.
86, East 7th Street, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF071 - . A detailed visual record records the setting around East 7th Street, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA, in a 2018 record. The image record centres upon Money and Art, ATM at East 7th Street, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA. The wider setting includes mural culture, local identity, art-led regeneration, community art, contemporary mural, urban visual culture, city artwork, street-level design, temporary artwork, illustrated hoarding, street creativity, and public art. For present-day editorial use, urban murals can also illustrate debates about youth culture and public-realm investment, particularly where these affect art integrated with regeneration. The date and location give the photograph archival strength: future views of East 7th Street, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA may show different businesses, branding, services, architecture, traffic patterns or redevelopment, allowing clear before-and-after comparison. Beyond the immediate subject, the setting involves creative regeneration, creative streetscape, graphic intervention, urban graphics, community expression, urban artwork. The scene is further associated with street ATM, cash Machine in the street, Cash machine, Auto Teller, New York Travel Tourism, New York St Marks Place. Its context additionally embraces visual placemaking, and public realm art. In the mid-2020s, community artwork is increasingly discussed through community participation and public-realm investment, with attention turning to recording temporary artwork. The lasting documentary value lies in its record of public access, neighbourhood identity, architecture and streetscape, transport patterns, and ownership or occupation within the surrounding area. That gives this view of East 7th Street, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA continuing value for local history, retrospective reporting and visual comparison.
East 7th Street, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF073 - Astor Place is a one-block street in NoHo/East Village, in the lower part of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It runs from Broadway in the west, just below East 8th Street
to Lafayette Street, ending at Alamo plaza. Astor Place is also sometimes used for the neighborhood around the street. It encompasses two plazas at the intersection with Cooper Square, Lafayette Street, Fourth Avenue, and Eighth Street “ Alamo Plaza and Astor Place Station Plaza. It was named for John Jacob Astor (at one time the richest person in the United States), soon after his death in 1848. A $21 million reconstruction to implement a redesign of Astor Place began in 2013
Astor Place, East Village, Manhattan, New York City, NY
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,NOHO NYC,NYC,New York City,St Marks Place,St Marks Place NYC,street,New York Street,USA,America,City Centre,city,centre,center,city center,East Village,Eastvillage,Cash Machine,AutoTeller,street cash machine,Manhattan,New York,NY,Harlem,cash,inner city,downtown,streetart,spray,spraycan,expression,neighborhood,graffiti,art
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF074 - . A place-specific photograph preserves the physical context of East 7th Street, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA, in this period view from 2018. The principal point of reference is Money and Art, ATM at East 7th Street, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA. The location can also be described in terms of community expression, creative regeneration, urban artwork, street creativity, illustrated hoarding, contemporary mural, mural culture, public realm art, public art, city artwork, urban graphics, and visual placemaking. The wider contemporary story of temporary urban art now includes public-realm investment alongside temporary installations, while policy and investment increasingly consider community-led design. Over time, this view of East 7th Street, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA can support local-history and planning research by preserving details of appearance, occupation, signage, public access and everyday use that written records may omit. The resulting scene connects with local identity, creative streetscape, temporary artwork, graphic intervention, street-level design, community art. Associated details include street ATM, cash Machine in the street, Cash machine, Auto Teller, New York Travel Tourism, New York St Marks Place. Further aspects present in the subject include urban visual culture, and art-led regeneration. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, public art also connects with youth culture, graffiti versus commissioned work and efforts aimed at stronger place identity. Viewed retrospectively, the photograph can reveal community life, commercial identity, physical infrastructure, local continuity, and signage and branding at this precise location. Taken together, these details make the photograph a useful record of historic fabric, planning and redevelopment, movement through the area, social change, and everyday services within the surrounding area.
East 7th Street, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,NOHO NYC,NYC,New York City,St Marks Place,street,New York Street,USA,America,City Centre,city,centre,center,city center,East Village,Eastvillage,New York Travel Tourism,hearts,Manhattan,NY,streets,shops,retail,Taberna 97,Hertad,art,street art,painting,graffiti,urban art,inner city,downtown,streetart,spray,spraycan,expression
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF075 - . A grounded editorial photograph sets out the everyday reality of St Marks Place, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NYC, in an image captured in 2018. The principal recorded subject is Heart by Hertad at Taberna 97, St Marks Place, East Village, Manhattan, New York City, NYC, NY ,USA. Other aspects of the setting include urban visual culture, illustrated hoarding, town-centre trading, bricks-and-mortar retail, consumer spending, mural culture, urban graphics, public art, city artwork, customer footfall, commercial frontage, and city-centre economy. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, independent trading also connects with shifts in leisure spending, online shopping and efforts aimed at stronger local footfall. The wider contemporary story of street-level design now includes temporary installations alongside graffiti versus commissioned work, while policy and investment increasingly consider creative reuse of redevelopment sites. Small period details preserved at St Marks Place, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NYC may become historically important as commercial occupants, public services, infrastructure and the built environment change, making the image useful for retrospective editorial coverage. The location additionally reflects creative regeneration, shopping district, shopping habits, urban commerce, community expression, street creativity. The record also refers to love in the city, Love the city, love your town, love your city, Taberna97, New York St Marks Place. The scene also carries the language of commercial streetscape, high-street commerce, urban artwork, graphic intervention, retail property, creative streetscape, public realm art, chain-store economy, storefront culture, and visual placemaking. That gives this view of St Marks Place, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NYC continuing value for local history, retrospective reporting and visual comparison.
St Marks Place, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NYC
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF076 - . A grounded editorial photograph places on record the everyday reality of 94 St Marks Pace, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA, in documentary coverage dating from 2018. The source caption identifies Big Steves, Famous Fun City, expert Tattooing,tattooist, 94 St Marks Pace, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA. The scene also brings together shopfront economy, local trading, commercial frontage, bricks-and-mortar retail, chain-store economy, retail vacancy, city-centre economy, commercial streetscape, customer footfall, independent retail, shopping district, and high-street commerce. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, independent trading also connects with operating costs, changing footfall and efforts aimed at stronger local footfall. The photograph fixes 94 St Marks Pace, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA at one identifiable stage in its history, providing a reference against which later refurbishment, closure, demolition, conversion, new ownership or altered public use can be assessed. The location additionally reflects shopping habits, urban commerce, town-centre trading, consumer retail, retail decline and renewal, retail property. Other local associations include New York St Marks Place, redshop, shop, Big Steves world Famous Fun City. Further aspects present in the subject include consumer spending, and storefront culture. Modern coverage of town-centre commerce frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of operating costs, brand consolidation and stronger local footfall. Taken together, these details make the photograph a useful record of signage and branding, community life, commercial identity, local continuity, and physical infrastructure as part of the area's longer social history. The location view retains the area's visual identity as part of the area's social history. Details around 94 St Marks Pace, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA strengthen its value as a dated record of the place.
94 St Marks Pace, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF077 - stock-photo/gotonysmith-Block.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>Block Drug Company was a pharmaceutical company based in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, that specialized in dental care products. Its most popular products included Polident denture cleanser, Poli-Grip denture adhesive, Dentu-Creme denture toothpaste, Nytol sleeping pill, Tegrin medicated shampoo for psoriasis, Lava hand soaps (acquired from Procter & Gamble), Beano and Phazyme anti-gas products, Balmex diaper rash ointments, and Sensodyne desensitizing toothpaste.
GlaxoSmithKline purchased the company for $1.24 billion in 2001.
The company was founded in 1907 by Alexander Block, a Russian immigrant who had a small drugstore on Fulton Street in Brooklyn, New York. He turned the company into a wholesaler in 1915, then became a drug manufacturer in 1925, acquiring a 50 percent interest in Wernet's Dental Manufacturing Company.
Block Drug moved its headquarters to Jersey City, New Jersey in 1938.
Although Alexander Block built the company largely through acquisitions, he developed the Polident brand internally during the 1930s. In 1948, Block Drug rolled out the Ammi-i-Dent tooth powder, and in the early 1950s, the company developed Nytol. After Alexander Block's death in 1953, his son Leonard N. Block (1911“2005) took over, eventually becoming the company's chairman. The last major new product the company introduced was Tegrin, in 1964.
Although Block Drug was a public company from 1971 until 2001, it operated much like a private, family-run firm, with the Block family holding all voting shares plus 54 percent of the non-voting stock. In addition, the company never held annual meetings or issued proxy statements
Leonard N. Block died in 2005 at age 93 after suffering for years from Alzheimer's disease. Block's nephew John P. Roberts was the producer of the Woodstock Festival using money from his Block inheritance.
101 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003, USA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,NYC,street,New York Street,USA,America,City Centre,city,centre,center,city center,New York Travel Tourism,travel,sign,signs,2nd Av sign,2bd avenuw sign,second Avenue,East 6th Street,6th Street,history,historic,the,states,classic,traditional,flat,flats,apartment,apartments,housing,crisis,inner city,downtown
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF079 - . An editorial view records the character of the recorded location, as it appeared in 2018. The principal recorded subject is St Marks Place, 2nd avenue, tenements, East Village, Manhattan, New York City, NYC, NY, USA. The location also connects housing affordability, domestic architecture, residential development, housing provision, historic fabric, conservation architecture, historic built environment, urban living, heritage streetscape, historic townscape, estate environment, and urban fabric. Current debate around residential affordability often combines the cost of decent homes, damp and mould and the practical challenge of more affordable supply. In the mid-2020s, heritage assets is increasingly discussed through redevelopment pressure and conservation of original fabric, with attention turning to lower-carbon reuse rather than demolition. The date and location give the photograph archival strength: future views of the recorded location may show different businesses, branding, services, architecture, traffic patterns or redevelopment, allowing clear before-and-after comparison, specifically in relation to St Marks Place. The scene also relates to period architecture, housing quality, townscape identity, urban conservation, local landmark, residential streetscape. Further recorded details include NOHO NYC, St Marks Place NYC, Saint Marks Place, New York St Marks Place, Eastvillage, tourists. A more expansive reading adds conservation interest, housing stock, local neighbourhood, community infrastructure, community housing, residential environment, built heritage, tenure and occupancy, architectural character, and homes and neighbourhoods. The wider contemporary story of energy retrofit now includes damp and mould alongside fuel poverty, while policy and investment increasingly consider lower household energy use. It remains a grounded period reference to the recorded location, its use, appearance and changing local context.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF07A - Astor Place is a one-block street in NoHo/East Village, in the lower part of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It runs from Broadway in the west, just below East 8th Street
to Lafayette Street, ending at Alamo plaza. Astor Place is also sometimes used for the neighborhood around the street. It encompasses two plazas at the intersection with Cooper Square, Lafayette Street, Fourth Avenue, and Eighth Street “ Alamo Plaza and Astor Place Station Plaza. It was named for John Jacob Astor (at one time the richest person in the United States), soon after his death in 1848. A $21 million reconstruction to implement a redesign of Astor Place began in 2013
Astor Place, East Village, Manhattan, New York City, NY
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF07D - . An on-location image places on record the character of the recorded location, in a photograph originating in 2018. Within that setting the photograph concentrates on Fuck Your Phone, Keep Your Head Up, stencil on pavement, with feet in Adidas Trainers, Chinatown, New York City, NYC, NY, USA. The location also connects online service, digital transformation, digital interface, digital access, technology adoption, cybersecurity, app-based service, consumer electronics, software platform, connected society, smartphone culture, and online identity. In the mid-2020s, digital access is increasingly discussed through online identity and privacy, with attention turning to greater dependence on mobile platforms. The date and location give the photograph archival strength: future views of the recorded location may show different businesses, branding, services, architecture, traffic patterns or redevelopment, allowing clear before-and-after comparison, specifically in relation to Fuck Your Phone. The resulting scene connects with mobile computing, information technology, networked technology, connected device, digital technology, mobile internet. The scene is further associated with Fuck Your Phone Keep Your Head Up, stenciled, art, on street, on the street. Current debate around consumer technology often combines online identity, reliable connectivity and the practical challenge of more services delivered through phones. The lasting documentary value lies in its record of public-realm details, regional identity, the condition of buildings, local business activity, and patterns of everyday use in a form that can be compared with later photographs. For future comparison, the scene preserves changes of use, public activity, period design, local character, and the appearance of the built environment as an authentic period reference. The view of Fuck Your Phone also preserves another layer of local identity and period change.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF07F - Physical Graffiti is the sixth studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was released as a double album on 24 February 1975 by the group's new record label, Swan Song Records.
The band wrote and recorded eight new songs for the album in early 1974 at Headley Grange, a country house in Hampshire, which gave them ample time to improvise arrangements and experiment with recording. The total playing time covered three sides of an LP, so they decided to expand it into a double by including previously unreleased tracks from the sessions for the earlier albums Led Zeppelin III, Led Zeppelin IV and Houses of the Holy. The album covered a range of styles including hard rock, progressive rock, rock 'n' roll and folk. The album was then mixed over summer 1974 and planned for an end-of year release. It was delayed because of the sleeve, which was designed by Peter Corriston and featured a theme around a tenement block in Manhattan, New York.
Physical Graffiti was commercially and critically successful upon its release and debuted at number one on album charts in both the US and the UK. It was promoted by a successful US tour and a five-night residency at Earl's Court, London, and has since been viewed as one of the group's strongest albums and the artistic peak of their career. The album has been reissued on CD several times, including an expansive 40th anniversary edition in 2015. Physical Graffiti was later certified 16× platinum in the United States
St Marks Place, East Village, New York City, NY, USA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF07H - . An editorial view records the character of the recorded location, in a view made during 2018. The scene is specifically associated with St Marks Place, 2nd avenue, tenements, East Village, Manhattan, New York City, NYC, NY, USA. Further features of the subject include housing provision, traditional building, residential development, historic townscape, townscape identity, community infrastructure, architectural heritage, period architecture, housing quality, architectural detail, urban fabric, and heritage streetscape. Current debate around neighbourhood condition often combines repair standards, damp and mould and the practical challenge of lower household energy use. In the mid-2020s, heritage assets is increasingly discussed through vacancy and energy retrofit, with attention turning to lower-carbon reuse rather than demolition. Because this is a time-specific record of the recorded location, later comparison can reveal changes in signage, ownership, land use, transport, street furniture, building condition and the way the public uses the surrounding space, specifically in relation to St Marks Place. The location additionally reflects tenure and occupancy, local neighbourhood, estate environment, urban living, historic built environment, adaptive reuse. The scene also carries the language of period property, housing stock, property maintenance, historic environment, place-making, affordable homes, urban conservation, conservation interest, neighbourhood regeneration, and historic fabric. The wider contemporary story of residential affordability now includes repair standards alongside damp and mould, while policy and investment increasingly consider stronger tenant accountability. That gives this view of the recorded location continuing value for local history, retrospective reporting and visual comparison, specifically in relation to St Marks Place. The frame further records local character within the wider local story.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFK6B2 - 9/11 memorial's fountains flow
The fountain, where the north tower of the World Trade Center once stood, was undergoing tests of the massive pumping systems that will blast 26,000 gallons a minute over the 30-foot deep black granite walls.
Daniels, who happened upon the test yesterday, said the sight of the water filling the 1-acre pool was awe-inspiring after years of planning and building.
Construction workers from around the site paused to look and listen during the tests as engineers below the memorial plaza monitored and adjusted the 16 pumps that will circulate 480,000 gallons of recycled water.
During the design phase of the memorial, there were concerns that the fountains might be too loud. But Daniels said the sound of the cascading water yesterday created a nice, peaceful background, like the sound of the ocean.
It's perfect. It's not overwhelming at all, Daniels said.
A second fountain over the footprint of the south tower will be ready for testing later this year. A spokesman for the Port Authority, which is overseeing construction of the $500 million memorial, said yesterday's trial run went very well.
The two fountains together make up the nation's largest manmade waterfalls, and are at the heart of the design of the memorial, called Reflecting Absence.
Paula Berry, a 9/11 family member who served on the 13-member jury that picked the memorial design by Michael Arad, was ecstatic about the test run.
The presence of water is incredibly important at the memorial, said Berry. When you think of the memorial's name, Reflecting Absence, you have to have the means to reflect and the water plays that role.
But Berry said the sound of the water rushing over the sides of the fountains could very well be one of the most lasting impressions visitors take away.
Yesterday's tests lasted a few hours, and will be repeated as needed.
Construction of the memorial remains on schedule for its planned opening next Sept. 11 ” the 10th anniversary
One World Trade Center, Manhattan, New York City, NY, USA, North America
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFK6NJ - Peter Cooper (February 12, 1791 “ April 4, 1883) was an American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, and politician. He designed and built the first American steam locomotive, the Tom Thumb, founded the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, served as its first president, and stood for election as the Greenback Party's candidate in the 1876 presidential election.
Cooper began tinkering at a young age while working in various positions in New York City. He purchased a glue factory in 1821 and used that factory's profits to found the Canton Iron Works, where he earned even larger profits by assembling the Tom Thumb. Cooper's success as a businessman and inventor continued over the ensuing decades, and he became the first mill operator to successfully use anthracite coal to puddle iron. He also developed numerous patents for products such as gelatin and participated in the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable.
During the Gilded Age, Cooper became an ardent critic of the gold standard and the debt-based monetary system of bank currency, advocating instead for government-issued banknotes. Cooper was nominated for president at the 1876 Greenback National Convention, and the Greenback ticket of Cooper and Samuel Fenton Cary won just under one percent of the popular vote in the 1876 general election. His son Edward and his son-in-law Abram Hewitt, both served as Mayor of New York City.
Cooper Sq. &, E 7th St, New York, NY 10003, United States
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFK75M - . This location-based editorial photograph from 285 Fulton St, New York, NY 10007, United States in 2018 preserves a recognisable subject together with clues about how the place was used and presented at the time. The principal point of reference is WTC,World Trade Center Place, New York City, NYC, New York state,USA, with office blocks in background. The image connects the immediate subject with housing quality, historic townscape, estate environment, documentary photography, neighbourhood regeneration, regional identity, built environment, historic context, affordable homes, adaptive reuse, local history, period streetscape, place identity, and historical comparison. Today's wider story includes tenant rights, damp and mould and the practical question of the balance between new supply and local infrastructure. For contemporary context, redevelopment pressure and planning control are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes the contrast between preservation and redevelopment. Looking back from the mid-2020s, the scene keeps a record of period details that may disappear after redevelopment or refurbishment in the immediate surroundings of 285 Fulton St, New York, NY 10007, United States. The wider local story also touches on visual archive, conservation interest, community housing, architectural character, cityscape history, urban fabric, heritage landmark, and contemporary social history. References to office, state, Trade, background, and Place help fix the photograph to its own subject and period rather than reducing it to a generic view. A later view of 285 Fulton St, New York, NY 10007, United States may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The wider significance includes tenant rights and the balance between new supply and local infrastructure as part of the longer story of 285 Fulton St, New York, NY 10007, United States.
285 Fulton St, New York, NY 10007, United States
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RM9ATB - A tower viewer is a telescope or binoculars permanently mounted on a stalk. The device magnifies objects seen through its lenses, allowing users to see farther and more clearly than they could with the naked eye or with less powerful viewing devices. Tower viewers are typically metallic and most swivel horizontally and vertically (within given axes of rotation) to permit a range of view. The viewing machines are commonly placed in tourist destinations and scenic lookouts for the purpose of viewing attractions and events of interest
they are also used in residential, business, recreational and government locations for the purposes of surveillance and safety monitoring.
Two well-known manufacturers of tower viewers in the United States are Tower Optical Co., Inc. (founded in 1933) and SeeCoast Manufacturing Company, Inc. (founded in 1960). Both firms offer wheelchair-accessible viewer bases that provide easy access to the sighting mechanisms in compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Tower viewer manufacturers located abroad include Hi-Spy Viewing Machines, Inc. (established in 1991) in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada.
Ellis Island, New York, NYC, USA
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4398634214 - 'Great to meet a fellow appreciator of the comedy of Matt Berry, as 'Toast Of London'. He was kind enough to tend me a free pint of double IPA, $12 &
8% ABV and it was great to talk about the fabulous Toast Voiceovers - www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK5H33R1ZMY
Heres the T-Shirt that started that conversation:
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If you are on Twitter, do add a follow there and I will follow back in return mobile.twitter.com/HotpixUK
Have a look at my archived photography, from ten years back at www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BTY7AK - John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 “ November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his work as president concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate prior to becoming president.
Kennedy was born into a wealthy political family in Brookline, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1940, before joining the U.S. Naval Reserve the following year. During World War II, he commanded a series of PT boats in the Pacific theater and earned the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his service. After a brief stint in journalism, Kennedy represented a working-class Boston district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953. He was subsequently elected to the U.S. Senate and served as the junior Senator from Massachusetts from 1953 to 1960. While in the Senate, Kennedy published his book, Profiles in Courage, which won a Pulitzer Prize. In the 1960 presidential election, he narrowly defeated Republican opponent Richard Nixon, who was the incumbent vice president.
New York State, USA
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4925460775 - 'Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth - 'The Dandy Warhols' - Play this track here.
\u00bfWhats this iPod Shuffle set all about? Read about it here
I was a late convert to the Dandy's and their friends/enemies The BJM who I saw live recently.
The band's name is a pun on the name of American pop artist Andy Warhol and originate from Portland, Oregon in 1993. Influences include The Velvet Underground, the Beach Boys and The Rolling Stones.
The band first achieved success in the UK after the release of their second Album 'The Dandy Warhols Come Down' in 1997. The promotional video for this single 'Not If You Were The Last Junkie on Earth' was directed by celebrity fashion photographer David LaChapelle, and it earned them acclaim outside the US.
Along with The Brian Jonestown Massacre (BJM), The Dandy Warhols were the subjects of the 2004 documentary DiG! This film captured a love-hate relationship between both bands, highlighting the interaction of BJM frontman Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor. It was recorded over the course of seven years by Ondi Timoner, and won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.
To get a bit of background to both bands you could do worse than grab this DVD. tell 'em I sent you!
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The illegal drug trade is a global black market, competing with legal drug trade, dedicated to cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of those substances which are subject to drug prohibition laws. Most jurisdictions prohibit trade, except under license, of many types of drugs by drug prohibition laws.
A UN report said the global drug trade generated an estimated US$321.6 billion in 2003. With a world GDP of US$36 trillion in the same year, the illegal drug trade may be estimated as slightly less than 1% of total global commerce. Consumption of illegal drugs is widespread globally.
Cocaine (benzoylmethylecgonine) is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from 'coca' in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine. It is a stimulant of the central nervous system, an appetite suppressant, and a topical anesthetic.
For over a thousand years South American indigenous peoples have chewed the leaves of Erythroxylon coca, a plant that contains vital nutrients as well as numerous alkaloids, including cocaine. The coca leaf was, and still is, chewed almost universally by some indigenous communities.
The remains of coca leaves have been found with ancient Peruvian mummies, and pottery from the time period depicts humans with bulged cheeks, indicating the presence of something on which they are chewing. There is also evidence that these cultures used a mixture of coca leaves and saliva as an anesthetic for the performance of trepanation.
When the Spanish arrived in South America, most at first ignored aboriginal claims that the leaf gave them strength and energy, and declared the practice of chewing it the work of the Devil. But after discovering that these claims were true, they legalized and taxed the leaf, taking 10% off the value of each crop.
In 1569, Nicol\u00e1s Monardes described the practice of the natives of chewing a mixture of tobacco and coca leaves to induce 'great contentment'.
Crack is a lower purity form of free-base cocaine and contains sodium bicarbonate as impurity. Freebase and crack are often administered by smoking. The origin of the name is from the crackling sound (hence the onomatopoeic \u201ccrack\u201d) produced when cocaine containing impurities are heated.
The trade north of drugs and south of cash and weapons continues in the Americas regardless of prohibition, cival and military enforcement. As I type this I am listening to the story of dead bodies found near San Fernando in Mexico,Tamaulipas state, the corpses are reportedly those of 58 men and 14 women. It appears to be among the biggest mass graves linked to drug cartel violence to be uncovered in Mexico.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4407631870 - 'Taking a NY taxi yellow cab up town, Bob checks his hillbilly palm pilot....
Some nice extreme piercings and tats.
An old shot, sadly the noise abatement society have led to the demise of CBGB's at 315 Bowery. I dont know who should be more ashamed. The club originally opened by Billy Kristal closed in October 2006. The final concert was performed quite appropriately by Patti Smith on 15/10/2006.
A lot of my favourite bands cut their teeth there and I remember having early cassette tape bootlegs from CBGB's. My faves were the Ramones, Tom Verlaine &
Television, Patti Smith Group, The Dead Boys (I came across Sonic Reducer on 12' last week- which prompted me to dig this out), Richard Hell &
The Voidoids, The Cramps, Blondie and those darlings Talking Heads.
If you like that, you will probbaly appreciate this www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4271674913/
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Keywords: Blue,Morpho,Butterfly,Emerging,Chrysalis,wings,eye,pupa,macro,bellows,close,up,closeup,mexico,central,america,hotpix,hotpixuk,tonysmith,tony,smith,pupae,bluemorpho
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4382356125 - 'The Peleides Blue Morpho (Morpho peleides) is an iridescent tropical butterfly found in Mexico, Central America, northern South America,Paraguay and Trinidad. The example shown here is emerging from its Chrysalis and will soon be opening on a tree to dry out its damp wings.
This Butterfly drinks the juices from rotting fruits for food. Examples are mango, kiwi, and lychee.
Blue Morpho butterflies live in the rainforests of South America, and can be found in Mexico and Central America.The wingspan of the Blue Morpho butterfly ranges from 7.5 cm to 20 cm, so in theory an easy subject for macro photography.
The entire Blue Morpho Butterfly lifecycle, from egg to adult is only 115 days. The larvae of Blue Morpho Butterflies are cannibals. The caterpillar Blue Morpho Butterfly is red-brown with patches of bright green. The brilliant blue color in the butterfly's wings is caused by the diffraction of the light from millions of tiny scales on its wings. It uses this to frighten away predators, by flashing its wings rapidly. The Blue Morpho Butterflies stick together in groups to deter their predators, a form of Mobbing behavior.
In the half light of a rain forest the outer brown patterns mimic eyes this proving another defence mechanism.
Another one of natures best www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4315063542/ and
a non natural macro www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3875569224/
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF221G - The Peleides Blue Morpho (Morpho peleides) is an iridescent tropical butterfly found in Mexico, Central America, northern South America,Paraguay and Trinidad. The example shown here is emerging from its Chrysalis and will soon be opening on a tree to dry out its damp wings.
This Butterfly drinks the juices from rotting fruits for food. Examples are mango, kiwi, and lychee.
Blue Morpho butterflies live in the rainforests of South America, and can be found in Mexico and Central America.The wingspan of the Blue Morpho butterfly ranges from 7.5 cm to 20 cm, so in theory an easy subject for macro photography.
The entire Blue Morpho Butterfly lifecycle, from egg to adult is only 115 days. The larvae of Blue Morpho Butterflies are cannibals. The caterpillar Blue Morpho Butterfly is red-brown with patches of bright green. The brilliant blue color in the butterfly's wings is caused by the diffraction of the light from millions of tiny scales on its wings. It uses this to frighten away predators, by flashing its wings rapidly. The Blue Morpho Butterflies stick together in groups to deter their predators, a form of Mobbing behavior.
In the half light of a rain forest the outer brown patterns mimic eyes this proving another defence mechanism.
Butterfly Farm Attraction, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: rge,jelly,bean,factory,US,USA,america,candy,sweets,colours,black,white,mono,monochrome,bw,flavours,extreme,sugar,treat,beany,belly,mr,california,calif,CA,partial,mixed,color,this photo rocks,stillife,stilllife,still,life,platinumphoto,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4328233789 - 'The biggest jar of these I have ever seen that you can buy without being accompained by an adult. It has been slowley being dipped into by people in the office now for about two months.
However the lack of an official 'Jelly Belly' trademark or logo on this jar (or indeed Mr jelly Belly as mascot) leads me to believe that these are in fact imposter beans (possibly come by way of ebay and Hong Kong). Let the buyer beware.
If you are new to this type of candy, concept is that there are about 50 flavours and a few specials. These can be mixed together in the mouth to replicate the experience of a cocktail. EG Coconut and Watermelon.
Ronald Reagan was a big fan of them apparently and had a jar of them on his desk in the White House and on Air Force One next to the big red button labelled 'Nuke'. Through perserverance he also made them the first jelly beans in outer space, sending them on the 1983 Challenger shuttle for the astronauts. You would have thought Mars and Milky Way bars would be most appropriate. The jelly beans were proven at low gravity, hence got the gig.
In recent years the high sugar content of the original beans has been offset by the introduction of a range of 'Sport' and 'Extreme Sport' beans. These contain vitamines, electrolytes(?) and the latter caffeine. All safe for our vege' breatheren and 100% Kosher.
Now for some candy from Sheffield - www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3915943695/
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Keywords: Charles MacLeod Stornoway butcher shop,Isle of Lewis,Outer Hebrides,Scotland UK. Hebrides,tarton,tarten,tartan,family,on,front,red,postbox,post,box,pillarbox,pillar,box,gotonysmith,black,pudding,puddings,famous,Cromwell,St,Bayhead,Matheson rd road roundabout,gotonysmith,Buy,Buy Pictures of,In the early 1900s,Murdo,MacLeod,left,the,village,of,Keose,on,the,Isle,of,Lewis,bound,for,South,America,to,work,on,a,Patagonian,sheep,farm.,An,expert,judge,and,buyer,of,livestock,Murdos employer,Jose Menendez,held him in high esteem. So much so,that on his return to the Isle of Lewis,Murdo,was,asked,to,include,Menendez,in,the,name,of,his,first-born,child.,On,setting,up,home,in,Ropework,Cottage,Stornoway,Murdo,and,wife,Christina,thus,became,parents,to,Charles,Menendez,MacLeod,Steòrnabhagh,Na h-Eileanan Siar,Western Isles,Leòdhas,Eilean,CNES,Alba,Eilean Leòdhais,Stornoway town
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CEMWKY - Charles MacLeod Stornoway butcher shop, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland UK. Here follows a bit of history:
In the early 1900s, Murdo MacLeod left the village of Keose on the Isle of Lewis bound for South America to work on a Patagonian sheep farm. An expert judge and buyer of livestock, Murdo's employer, Jose Menendez, held him in high esteem. So much so, that on his return to the Isle of Lewis, Murdo was asked to include Menendez in the name of his first-born child. On setting up home in Ropework Cottage, Stornoway, Murdo and wife, Christina thus became parents to Charles Menendez MacLeod.
The tradition continues today.
Charles MacLeod's Stornoway butcher shop, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3708845957 - 'Dave Weatherby with his award winning American 1957 classic car, about 4 minutes before the heavens opened.
Ever thought of taking the train instead? www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3709536244/in/set-72157621...
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HCGH - . A grounded documentary photograph made at New York State, USA in 2009, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The location is represented through Red Chevy Impala ,classic automobile, car interior, USA. The broader subject matter reaches into public realm, community identity, documentary photography, historical comparison, archival record, specialist retailer, shopfront economy, street-level business, everyday life, regional identity, specialist shop, town-centre trading, high-street commerce, and contemporary social history. Today's relevance is strengthened by footfall, store closures and the continuing question of the contribution of independents to distinctive high streets. The image fixes street furniture and boundaries within New York State, USA at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against changed technology. A second descriptive layer includes independent retail, changing streetscape, changing land use, local enterprise, retail property, bricks-and-mortar retail, commercial frontage, and period detail. Details involving Impala, automobile, interior, Chevy, and classic make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. By fixing the subject within New York State, USA, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The setting also helps illustrate footfall and the contribution of independents to distinctive high streets without losing the local specificity of New York State, USA. The image also provides a reference for commercial rents and the contribution of independents to distinctive high streets in a form that can be compared with future views of New York State, USA. Another useful connection is commercial rents and how commercial property costs affect small retailers within the real-world context of New York State, USA.
New York State, USA
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Keywords: NY,NYC,Manhatten,TwinTowers,Twin,towers,Murder,911,11/09,Terror,Anniversary,Statue,Of,Liberty,Harbour,Ground,Zero,police,policeman,tribute,USA,United,States,atlantic,America,Axis,Evil,Worlds,World,NATA,ISAF,hockney,pano,panorama,joiner,analog,analogue
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 6133790374 - 'Suzanne Vega - Anniversary - Play this track here.
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This image is taken from a large joiner I took on May 10th 1994 from Liberty Island in New York harbour. An hour before I had witnessed a solar eclipse. To one side was the statue of liberty and the other, the New York Manhatten Skyline, crowned by the Twin Towers of The World Trade Centre and the wall Street financial district. The day before I had visited the observation deck of the south tower.
A bombing had been attempted the previous year on the 26th February
The joiner has been on my wall, appropriately mounted on black card for many years.
Too many innocents died that day, a result of a twisted idealogy that resulted in 767 aircraft being used as weapons and decades of failure of the west in bringing peace and lasting compromise to many poorer nations or ones where there is a financial interest.
The framing of the response as a 'war on terror' or a 'crusade' has been less than helpful from Mr Bush and Blair. Both of which have moved on to profit from their memoirs and speaking tours. Blair in his 'Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East' role in the first nine days of the 2008\u20132009 Israel-Gaza conflict, was allegedly spotted at the opening of the Armani store at Knightsbridge, London. Aides said he had been in phone contact with other world leaders since the fighting began. Yeah right.
A decade on, have we done everything to make this a safer, fairer world?
It's my hunch the faster we do, the easier it will be to tackle some of the roots what causes radicalism across the world, whatever your religious beliefs may be or whoever you believed your prophet to be (or maybe he/she has not arrived yet).
\u00bfWhats this iPod Shuffle set all about? Read about it here
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DHGYMP - File Under: BLM, Black Statue, Do Black Lives Matter. Figures (including those of other races) like this one, represented the four continents as they were defined in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Africa, America, Asia and Europe. By extension they would then stand for ˜the known world'. Statue attributed to Andries Carpentière or Jan van Nost
Dunham Massey Hall , near Altrincham Cheshire England , UK WA14 4SJ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RWW5WF - Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
Trump won the 2016 presidential election as the Republican nominee against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton while losing the popular vote. During the campaign, his political positions were described as populist, protectionist, isolationist, and nationalist. His election and policies sparked numerous protests. He was the first U.S. president with no prior military or government service. The 2017“2019 special counsel investigation established that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to favor his campaign. Trump promoted conspiracy theories and made many false and misleading statements during his campaigns and presidency, to a degree unprecedented in American politics. Many of his comments and actions have been characterized as racially charged or racist and many as misogynistic
Georgia , GA, USA, United States of America
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF06G - . A detailed visual record places on record the physical context of 96 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10009, USA, as it appeared in 2018. The supplied image information identifies Physical Graffitea ( Physical Graffiti ) after Led Zeppelin album, cafe, 96 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10009, USA. The photograph carries associations with visitor destination, community expression, creative streetscape, tourist accommodation, retail vacancy, hospitality premises, restaurant sector, contemporary mural, consumer leisure, urban artwork, consumer spending, and visitor economy. For present-day editorial use, commercial property can also illustrate debates about brand consolidation and changing footfall, particularly where these affect mixed-use town centres. Modern coverage of creative hoardings frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of graffiti versus commissioned work, youth culture and creative reuse of redevelopment sites. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, local dining also connects with changing visitor patterns, staffing and efforts aimed at adaptable venues. The date and location give the photograph archival strength: future views of 96 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10009, USA may show different businesses, branding, services, architecture, traffic patterns or redevelopment, allowing clear before-and-after comparison. The broader context includes retail decline and renewal, mural culture, urban graphics, catering trade, commercial streetscape, shopping habits. Further recorded details include tea shop, St Marks Place NYC, Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin album, PhysicalGraffitea, organic fairtrade. The location further reflects local trading, service economy, illustrated hoarding, leisure venue, shopping district, art-led regeneration, city-centre economy, customer service, food culture, and street-level design. The scene keeps a record of a moment in the site's history within the wider local story.
96 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10009, USA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF06X - . This contextual photograph records the visible identity of 96 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10009, USA, in a 2018 record. The documentary focus is Physical Graffitea ( Physical Graffiti ) after Led Zeppelin album, cafe, 96 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10009, USA. The location can also be described in terms of hospitality trade, conservation interest, consumer retail, restaurant sector, heritage streetscape, high-street commerce, independent retail, conservation architecture, retail property, period architecture, local tourism, and leisure hospitality. Modern coverage of physical shops frequently reaches beyond the immediate scene to questions of brand consolidation, operating costs and stronger local footfall. Seen from a 2025-onward perspective, temporary urban art also connects with temporary installations, public-realm investment and efforts aimed at community-led design. The wider contemporary story of local landmarks now includes planning control alongside energy retrofit, while policy and investment increasingly consider heritage-led regeneration. Documentary value is strengthened by the precise setting at 96 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10009, USA, where even ordinary details of frontage, equipment, signs, traffic or public activity may disappear as the area evolves. The surrounding story includes city artwork, contemporary mural, creative streetscape, architectural detail, architectural heritage, food-and-drink business. Other local associations include tea shop, St Marks Place NYC, Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin album, PhysicalGraffitea, organic fairtrade. Its context additionally embraces town-centre trading, art-led regeneration, shopping habits, mural culture, traditional building, historic townscape, commercial streetscape, consumer leisure, urban artwork, and city-centre economy. The resulting record of 96 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10009, USA is specific enough to support future before-and-after study of the same site.
96 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10009, USA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K0GF9H - . This authentic period view of the recorded location in 2022 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The image documents Old New York 1970s Taxi, a yellow cab, hired sign. The surrounding context encompasses contemporary social history, everyday life, regional identity, place identity, passenger information, public transport stop, radio dial, local history, bus infrastructure, surface public transport, domestic electronics, vintage radio, local mobility, and roadside transit. For current editorial use, broadcast archives and collecting provide additional context, especially through how station names and tuning scales preserve broadcast geography. Current relevance extends to service frequency and bus funding, particularly through the challenge of maintaining reliable services outside dense urban centres. For later comparison, the photograph preserves equipment and working practice at the recorded location, details that may look very different after redevelopment. The surrounding story also includes historical comparison, documentary photography, analogue tuner, visual archive, radio station guide, wireless set, changing land use, and passenger transport. Details involving yellow, 1970s, and hired make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. For the recorded location, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The setting also helps illustrate broadcast archives and how station names and tuning scales preserve broadcast geography when considered against later change at the recorded location. The image also provides a reference for integrated transport and the challenge of maintaining reliable services outside dense urban centres without losing the local specificity of the recorded location.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF07B - Money and Art, ATM at East 7th Street, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA gives a direct editorial record of a recognisable subject, with location, signage, architecture or everyday behaviour carrying much of the meaning. An ATM in Manhattan's East Village turned into or surrounded by art links money, street culture and neighbourhood identity in a city where cash machines are part of the visual clutter of commerce. The subject can illustrate urban art, financial access, gentrification, consumer culture, New York street life, cash use and the way everyday infrastructure becomes part of a creative streetscape. The location detail, New York, Manhattan, strengthens searches for regional features, travel pages, local-history pieces and news use where a named place matters. For buyers, the strength lies in the combination of a named subject, a lived-in setting and enough visual specificity to carry stories about how places are used, remembered, funded, visited or contested.
East 7th Street, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF06Y - Street signs mark the intersection of St Marks Place and Second Avenue in the East Village of Manhattan, New York City. The view layers familiar elements of the historic neighbourhood: green road signs, suspended yellow traffic lights, overhead cables, graffiti and a tightly packed backdrop of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century tenement and apartment buildings. Their weathered brick and stone facades feature carved window surrounds, projecting bays and decorative details, while external metal fire escapes zigzag down the elevations. Balconies, air-conditioning units and rooftop additions show how these older buildings continue to serve a densely populated modern city.
St Marks Place is the name given to the East 8th Street stretch running east from the Bowery and Astor Place. It has long been associated with immigrant settlement, bohemian life and successive New York countercultures. The surrounding East Village was once part of Kleindeutschland, or Little Germany, before later becoming a centre for artists, Beat writers, hippies, musicians, activists and the punk movement. Its clubs, record shops, clothing stores, bars and inexpensive apartments helped make it an internationally recognised symbol of downtown Manhattan culture.
The corner also has a notable connection with Gem Spa, the celebrated newsstand and neighbourhood store formerly located at 131 Second Avenue, also addressed as 36 St Marks Place. Known for egg creams, newspapers and a countercultural clientele, Gem Spa became an East Village landmark before closing in 2020. This scene therefore records more than road signage: it captures a junction shaped by immigration, tenement living, popular music, street art, nightlife and continuing gentrification. The mix of ornate historic architecture, utilitarian fire escapes and graffiti gives the photograph a distinctive New York character and places it firmly within Manhattan's evolving East Village streetscape
Intersection Second Avenue and St Marks Place, East Village, Manhattan, New York, NY 10003, USA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DHGYTB - File under: BLM, Black Statue, Do Black Lives Matter. Figures (including those of other races) like this one, represented the four continents as they were defined in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Africa, America, Asia and Europe. By extension they would then stand for ˜the known world'. Statue / Sundial is attributed to Andries Carpentière or Jan van Nost
Dunham Massey Hall , near Altrincham Cheshire England , UK WA14 4SJ
