I spent three decades photographing people on the streets of New York I learned a lot like this group of girls here they’re Colombian back 10 years ago beside getting fake breasts you can get fake butt cheeks really cheap in Columbia it’s a big thing there

I have to admit the Coney Island Beach isn’t the cleanest or the water I’ve been in it twice out of 100 times I’ve been there but what is really cool are these fake palm trees that shoot out cool fresh water all day in the hot sun It goes good with frozen margaritas

In 1981 and 1982 We had a great house panda Captain Tony’s Metro they played new wave rock ‘n’ roll they were so good I took them to Fort Lauderdale as their manager and we played in three big clubs one of my other adventures a band manager They even cut a album

Before I move back to Florida I spent two years in Coney Island Photographing the beach boardwalk and people I did a lot of great portfolios under that pier and above portraitsofnewyork.com go to the Coney Island days category I also have topnewyork.com

The year 1951 we are entering the Korean War Sal was an undercover photographer for the OSS that was CIA back then He traveled around the world photographing ships in transit and ports he did his undercover work through the seafarers union as they’re a photographer you could see all these published photos on this website

This was my second studio between 1989 and 1993 I have done over 200 nude and so my new exotic dancer portfolios and published 1200 dancers between New York and New Jersey under my name I also published dozens of girls for the 900 numbers you know talk to a girl for $.99 a minute I’m the guy took the photos I also supplied Howard stern with a lot of those Snapple girls

They called her tiny A 320 pound bull Dyke with a Mike Tyson overhand right And she was 6 foot tall this was Captain Tony’s bouncer from 1972 through 73 if any man was bothering a woman she would warn him once if he didn’t stop she would either drag him out or knock him out I heard many stories about her they say she hated men in 1978 I got to meet Her and it wasn’t pleasant

May 1980 I landed a great job with the Key West Citizen newspaper at the same time the Cuban boatlift exploded into the Florida Keys thousands of refugees and Tony Montana’s flooded key west I ended up doing 12 Front page photos and stories I became a professional photo journalist overnight I also did two major drug bust I have been rolling ever since over 40 years ago

This photo was taken at the Broadway lounge sometime in the late 40s it’s an original negative taken by Sal Terracina in the late 40s I don’t know who the girl is maybe he was cheating on Marilynn Monroe

The most recognize face on planet earth for the last four years Donald Trump back in 1972 my great uncle Sal was performing at the Strawhat lounge in Manhattan playing the piano hypnotizing people and taking portraits of the jetsetters that came there this is a 4 x 5“ negative definitely One of the sharpest images you can get out of a camera at the time When I printed it up it seems like Sal hypnotized him

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