Arlene Gottfried’s Mesmerizing Photographs of New York in the 1980s

Arlene Gottfried’s Mesmerizing Photographs of New York in the 1980s – Feature Shoot

Boy with Knife, late 1970s Heroin Series, Man With Beer And Cigarette, late 1970s Hailing from Coney Island, Arlene Gottfried (1950-2017) grew up on the streets of Crown Heights during the 1960s…

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Hailing from Coney Island, Arlene Gottfried (1950-2017) grew up on the streets of Crown Heights during the 1960s just as white flight was reshaping the face of New York. She moved to Greenwich Village in 1972 as a young photography student enrolled at Fashion Institute of Technology and soon thereafter her family moved to the East Village when it was more familiarly known as Alphabet City — one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Manhattan.