Taken in the hot New York summer of 1959, Bruce Davidson’s classic essay Brooklyn Gang, New York, infiltrates a close-knit group of teenagers as they sunbathed, smoked and bloodied each other up. They were young, poor and reckless but the very embodiment of 1950s cool.
Friday, January 7th, 2022, Good Afternoon!
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Good afternoon! Wishing you a happy Friday, January 7th, 2022 from all of us at Viewing NYC!
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[WATCH] Peek Behind the Scenes at the New York Public Library's Laser Sorting Facility
In this episode of the New York Public Library web series Library Stories, we get to take a peek behind the scenes at BookOps, the library's laser sorting facility in LIC.
Javier Velez is a the floor manager at BookOps, where materials from The New York Public Library and The Brooklyn Public Library are sorted on a giant laser scanning book sorts. He tells his Library story and the sense of pride he feels training the other workers on the floor, knowing that he's preparing them with skills that will last a lifetime