Photographers James and Karla Murray will show slides from their new book - Storefront: The Disappearing Face of New York - at the Tenement Museum on March 5 at 6:30 p.m.

The  book features an interview with Joshua Russ Tupper.  Niki Russ Federman will join the authors for the panel discussion at the museum, as will Brian Schames of M. Schames & Son Paints (a longtime fixture on Essex Street across from Seward Park).

The Municipal Art Society says, of the book,

“Storefront: The Disappearing Face of New York is a visual guide to New York City’s timeworn storefronts, a collection of powerful images that capture the neighborhood spirit, familiarity, comfort and warmth that these shops once embodied. Almost all of these businesses are a reflection of New York’s early immigrant population, a wild mix of Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Poles, Eastern Europeans, and later, Hispanics and Chinese. The variety is immense … And as the Murrays’ stunning, large format photographs make patently clear, the face of New York is etched in their facades.”

- Jen Snow