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Coffee, conversation, and community: Inside NYC's vanished cafeterias

November 5, 2017

Image: Marcia Bricker Halperin

One frigid day in February 1975, Marcia Bricker Halperin, a budding street photographer, was shooting storefront windows on Kings Highway in Brooklyn. With her fingers practically frozen to her Pentax, she slipped into a Dubrow’s Cafeteria to defrost.

I took a ticket from the man at the door and found myself looking out at a tableau of amazing faces between the coffee urns and steam tables teeming with choices and the muraled walls under high ceilings with modernist, space-age lighting.
Marcia Bricker Halperin

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Source: Mashable | Coffee, conversation, and community: Inside NYC's vanished cafeterias

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