Harvey Wang’s New York

In a live conversation at the Yiddish Book Center, award-winning photographer, filmmaker, and author Harvey Wang visits with The Shmooze to talk about his work and his recently opened exhibit, Harvey Wang’s New York. In the early years of his career, in the 1980s, Harvey’s photographic beat was the New York City nightlife scene. Yet a very different facet of the downtown landscape fascinated him. Cycling through the Lower East Side, he’d notice old businesses clearly not long for this world—venerable holdouts from when the neighborhood was an epicenter of Jewish immigration.