Wijnanda Deroo at Robert Mann Gallery

We just noticed that photographer Wijnanda Deroo has an exhibition entitled "Inside New York Eateries" at the Robert Mann Gallery. You can view some of her photographs here. The gallery show runs through January 29.

Ms. Deroo came to take photographs of the long-abandoned interior at 97 Orchard Street in the late 1980s. We have dozens of her haunting images in our collection - all of which you can see here, in the online photo database. Some favorites are below.

(In our collection we also have some of her images from around the neighborhood, including some of the bathhouse at 133 Allen Street that's now Church of Grace to Fujianese, and several of Becker Locksmith, located in what's now our own 103 Orchard Street, our new visitor center. Our charming handyman, exhibit installer, and jack-of-all-trades Bob, who's lived in the neighborhood for almost 40 years, got his first live-in girlfriend a key to his place there.)

- Posted by Kate

Photograph by Wijnanda Deroo. Collection of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum (c) 2010.

Photograph by Wijnanda Deroo. Collection of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum (c) 2010.

Photograph by Wijnanda Deroo. Collection of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum (c) 2010.

Photograph by Wijnanda Deroo. Collection of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum (c) 2010.

Photograph by Wijnanda Deroo. Collection of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum (c) 2010.