{"id":605283,"date":"2026-04-25T08:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605283\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T08:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:38:14","slug":"daniel-roots-east-village-in-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605283\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Root\u2019s East Village in focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiER4hpBHjY-9Bcnb9SwbRPoQfNIm49lwDeRKmygHG5E1tKZ23e1PPssQqmYfm6_VrDj_ZH56nSXB9P9CDrwFphEwP06jBCZU7EYKq88cFOSyOTVG6U-Ztua1hOUPprhiwwJ23wEpHrvBGJnRoqmF3X-pmlt_Yu_PiEiYJMmngS9PGz_peKQBZCJBg-5-Y\/s1766\/root.png\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/root.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Longtime East Village photographer Daniel Root has a new book out next month: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abbeville.com\/collections\/forthcoming\/products\/the-east-village-then-and-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The East Village Then and Now: Capturing the Changing Streets<\/a>&#8221; (Abbeville Press).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The book pairs Root&#8217;s photos of the Lower East Side and East Village from the early\/mid-1980s with images of the same (or similar) locations today \u2014 a decades-spanning look at a neighborhood in constant motion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Backstory: In 1984, Root was commissioned to photograph &#8220;the changing East Village.&#8221; The photos were taken, but the accompanying writing never materialized. The images were shelved as Root continued documenting the neighborhood over the years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A book project resurfaced in 2014 &#8230; but didn&#8217;t come together.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, more than 40 years after those first shots, the project is finally in print.<\/p>\n<p>The book includes a foreword by Peter McGough and an essay by Beat historian and Allen Ginsberg archivist Bill Morgan. It also features a Tompkins Square Park cartoon from Stan Mack and a poem by Ginsberg.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Root has several upcoming local events around the release:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Sunday: Walk + talk at P&amp;T Knitwear (1:30\u20133:30 p.m., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/walking-tour-east-village-then-now-with-daniel-root-tickets-1983913077420?aff=oddtdtcreator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ticketed<\/a>)\u00a0\u2022 May 3: Conversation with musician Eric Ambel at Book Club Bar (7\u20138 p.m., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/author-event-daniel-roots-the-east-village-then-and-now-tickets-1987557144924?aff=oddtdtcreator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">details<\/a>)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Publication date is May 12.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Previously on EV Grieve:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Longtime East Village photographer Daniel Root has a new book out next month: &#8220;The East Village Then and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-605283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}