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PAINT PASTE PAPER AND PUSH!

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A NOTE IN PREFACE This is a photographic book about visible ghosts.   In a city where every square foot of ground has a price tag, physical reality is in constant flux.  The city of last Thursday is not the city of this Thursday.  Often, the only tangible remnant of what once was is the written word.     Remarkably, some of those written words, inscribed near or at the site of endeavors now vanished, have not vanished.  A careful look into a shaded alleyway or over an adjoining roof and you will see them.   My goal is to show some of these preternaturally persistent words and phrases, not so much to instruct, but rather to impart a sense of the small magic that still hangs heavy over parts of the metropolis. This book was not written to mourn the passing of so many of the architectural and historical wonders of this city.   That task has already been done by Nathan Silver in Lost New York and by Jose Vergara in Transitions....
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PAINT PASTE PAPER AND PUSH

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  A NOTE IN PREFACE This is a photographic book about visible ghosts.    In a city where every square foot of ground has a price tag, physical reality is in constant flux.   The city of last Thursday is not the city of this Thursday.   Often, the only tangible remnant of what once was is the written word.        Remarkably, some of those written words, inscribed near or at the site of endeavors now vanished, have not vanished.   A careful look into a shaded alleyway or over an adjoining roof and you will see them.    My goal is to show some of these preternaturally persistent words and phrases, not so much to instruct, but rather to impart a sense of the small magic that still hangs heavy over parts of the metropolis.   This book was not written to mourn the passing of so many of the architectural and historical wonders of this city.    That task has already been done by Nathan Silver in Lost New York and by...
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