http://jimepstein.postach.io/feed.xml 2015-03-05T08:21:32.217000Z Werkzeug https://jimepstein.postach.io/post/boondoggle-in-the-motor-city 2015-03-05T08:21:31.914000Z 2014-11-29T20:11:26Z Jim Epstein <div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Ld05-5OOLRg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br/></span></div> <div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br/></span></div> <div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Detroit has become a place Hollywood directors come for great wreckage shots. One quarter of the city's 140 square miles are deserted. Detroit public school students boast the nation's worst reading scores, the products of a corruption-ridden school system that recently flirted with bankruptcy. Detroit bested Baltimore in 2009 to take the dreaded "murder capital" title. It may also be the worst place in the country to have a heart attack: prepare to wait half an hour for an ambulance.</span> <div><br/></div> <div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a town lacking essential services, what do local leaders and federal politicians have in mind for helping the city? What's needed to hoist Detroit back to its 1950 heyday, when it was America's fourth largest city, with more than double its current population?</span></div> <div><br/></div> <div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Why, light rail, of course!</span></div> <div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br/></span></div> <div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Released on October 10, 2010</span><br/></div> </div> <div><br/></div> <span><img src="https://cdn-images.postach.io/w600_8ba92f963f54bc9ff2f604da98a285bb.jpg" style="height: auto;"/></span><br/> <div><br/></div> <div><br/></div> <div><br/></div> https://jimepstein.postach.io/post/book-row-a-history-of-the-strand-bookstore 2015-03-05T08:21:31.967000Z 2014-11-27T20:43:52Z Jim Epstein <div>A look at the history of the Strand, the last survivor of the legendary row of book stores that lined New York City's Fourth Avenue. Originally aired on Channel Thirteen/WNET in 2004.</div> <div><br/></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-Wl9zhC-snY?list=UUGXSA88VPHZplAsygyPfNjA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><br/></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><span><img src="https://cdn-images.postach.io/w600_0e2a396bcf1ca3535cf91a6758839c04.jpg" style="height: auto;"/></span><br/></div> https://jimepstein.postach.io/post/life-on-the-lower-east-side 2015-03-05T08:21:31.991000Z 2014-11-27T20:42:11Z Jim Epstein I made this profile of the great Lower East Side photographer Rebecca Lepkoff, which originally aired on Channel Thirteen/WNET in 2006. <div> <pre style="text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/7p5NnkxZM_Y" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </pre> <pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <br/> </pre> <pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </pre> <img src="https://cdn-images.postach.io/w600_2f2e2e9f3e1922ace25b9377eda74382.jpg" style="height: auto;"/> <pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </pre></div> https://jimepstein.postach.io/post/photographing-nyc-thomas-holton-reiner-leist-and-ethan-levitas 2015-03-05T08:21:32.030000Z 2014-11-27T19:22:19Z Jim Epstein <div> <h2 style="padding: 0px 0px 17.5px; border: 0px; list-style-type: none; line-height: 4rem; font-family: Lato, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="2">This profile of photographers Thomas Holton, Reiner Leist, and Ethan Levitas aired on Channel Thirteen/WNET in 2008.</font></span></h2> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/idXRdquK6GA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><br/></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><br/></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><br/></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><span><img src="https://cdn-images.postach.io/w600_83f97c459d0f9ba744d82a9ccbdf2158.jpg" style="height: auto;"/></span><br/></div> https://jimepstein.postach.io/post/the-story-of-the-sanborn-mapping-co 2015-03-05T08:21:32.062000Z 2014-11-27T19:14:07Z Jim Epstein <div> The piece originally aired on Channel Thirteen in 2008. </div> <div><br/></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/LnCZ-flnT1E?list=UUGXSA88VPHZplAsygyPfNjA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><br/></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><span><img src="https://cdn-images.postach.io/w600_508f48104dbecd00088b4a9bff74bbe0.jpg" style="height: auto;"/></span><br/></div> https://jimepstein.postach.io/post/the-mexicans-of-port-richmond 2015-03-05T08:21:32.105000Z 2014-11-27T19:07:44Z Jim Epstein <div><div style="text-align: left;">This story about a community of illegal Mexican immigrants in Staten Island, aired on Channel Thirteen/WNET in 2005.</div></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><br/></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/oJVHf4jKWCo?list=UUGXSA88VPHZplAsygyPfNjA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><br/></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><span><img src="https://cdn-images.postach.io/w600_9caefe25ed7edc7e5f0078aa39bf8f49.jpg" style="height: auto;"/></span><br/></div> https://jimepstein.postach.io/post/remembering-jane-jacobs 2015-03-05T08:21:32.182000Z 2014-11-27T18:58:06Z Jim Epstein <div>An appreciation of the urban critic and author Jane Jacobs. This aired on Channel Thirteen the week following Jacob's death in 2006.</div> <div><br/></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/mjEg7tChDrk?list=UUGXSA88VPHZplAsygyPfNjA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><br/></div> <div><br/></div> <div><span><img src="https://cdn-images.postach.io/w600_391d1051711f996f2ebe75de0b8d32d7.jpg" style="height: auto;"/></span><br/></div> https://jimepstein.postach.io/post/475-dean-street 2015-03-05T08:21:32.217000Z 2014-11-27T18:55:01Z Jim Epstein <div>A profile of the residents of 475 Dean Street in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, which was taken through eminent domain and destroyed to make way for Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards project. This piece aired on Channel Thirteen/WNET in 2004.</div> <div><br/></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/FUNWKg9O0Pw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><br/></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><br/></div> <div><br/></div> <div><span><img src="https://cdn-images.postach.io/w600_3c48e214a208beed59e73506a3050230.jpg" style="height: auto;"/></span><br/></div>