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I LOST MY MIND AT OLD FRIEND PHOTOBOOTH IN NEW YORK CITY by Larry Baumhor

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  I LOST MY MIND AT OLD FRIEND PHOTOBOOTH IN NEW YORK CITY   by Larry Baumhor (All photos outside the booth are by Larry Baumhor)    I was intrigued when I read online that Old Friend Photobooth develops your photo with a film-type process. When I arrived at the photo booth at 117 Orchard (the corner of Delancey and Orchard) I began to feel excitement in my veins, a rush of adrenalin, and an increase of norepinephrine as though I was high on pot. It seemed like a cultural phenomenon with extreme thrills in the booth and waiting for the photo to develop. The owners of the photo booth are Brandon Minton and Zoe Lazerson as seen in the next photo.       How did you develop the idea for a film photo booth in NYC?    Zoe: We lived in Paris and we visited a film photo booth. Brandon and I, when we first started dating found film photo booths and took our own photo strips. We were moving back to NYC and thought they have no film photo booths and how accessible it was to the public. That’s wh
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JUSTICE FOR STEVE BUSCEMI BUT NOT FOR THE ORDINARY CITIZEN IN NEW YORK CITY by Larry Baumhor

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JUSTICE FOR STEVE BUSCEMI BUT NOT FOR THE ORDINARY CITIZEN IN NEW YORK CITY   by Larry Baumhor “Hooray for Hollywood
 -- That screwy ballyhooey Hollywood
    Where any office boy or young mechanic
    Can be a panic...”    ...and become a movie star, treated like royalty with special privileges. This was the case with Steve Buscemi who was clobbered in the face by a homeless man on the street in New York City. Buscemi suffered an eye injury but was not seriously hurt. Judge Marisol Martinez Alonso sent assailant Clifton Williams, to Rikers Island jail on $50,000 cash or $150,000 bond, court records show, and charged him with second-degree assault, a felony punishable by up to seven years in prison.    My assailant was arrested and released. He was ordered to appear for two court hearings. He never appeared in court. What was the assistant district attorney thinking when he was released?    My defendant has prior drug charges. Please leave a comment as to why Steve Buscemi ’ s attacker
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CHELSEA HOTEL PHOTOS by Larry Baumhor

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by Tony Notarberardino   CHELSEA HOTEL PHOTOS by Larry Baumhor (All photos were shot at the Chelsea Hotel)    Inside NYC's Famed Chelsea Hotel   Andy Warhol filming Chelsea Girls , 1966. Photo by Santi Visalli     Edie Sedgwick’s room 105 which was used to shoot scenes for Andy Warhol’s Chelsea Girls     by Tony Notarberardino Nancy Spungen by Allan Tannenbaum   Nancy Spungen was being escorted out of Room 100 in a gurney while heroin-induced Sid Vicious was carted away in handcuffs. Patti and Robert by Norman Seeff Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe’s room 204  by Larry Baumhor by Larry Baumhor The History of the Chelsea Hotel    In 1883 construction began for the Chelsea Hotel. The area in Chelsea was named after the hotel. The hotel was the center of the theater district and at the corner was an opera house. Within ten years the theaters moved to Broadway. Tenants began moving to midtown and uptown. In 1904 the hotel was in bankruptcy. In 1905 it b
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