Brooklyn Storefronts as Metaphor for a Changing Borough - New York Times

Not long ago Paul Auster acknowledged Brooklyn's photogenic streetscapes through the life's work of one Augie Wren, Harvey Keitel's main character in Smoke, the mid-90s love letter to a borough on the brink of change.

A decade-plus later, the new downtown lies across the East River, where artists and hipsters mix with breeders and natives in districts like Red Hook and Williamsburg, Boerum Hill and Fort Greene. With all such migrations, storefronts change with the demographics, as evidenced in Brooklyn Storefronts, the new pictoral by Paul Lacy.

Much like Augie, Lacy's been cataloging indie bodegas and beauty shops across Brooklyn, a landscape bound to change in coming years. Unlike Augie, who shot the same vantage point each day, Lacy travels the borough to capture 75 standalone shops.

Check the New York Times post Brooklyn Storefronts as Metaphor for a Changing Borough for an interview with the artist, and ever-interesting chain of reader comments and feedback.