CBH Talk | Kibbitz & Nosh, Photographs of Dubrow’s Cafeteria

Remember New York City’s legendary Dubrow’s Cafeterias as photographer Marcia Bricker Halperin and writer Kevin Baker revisit the era of blintzes and coffee in cups and saucers through Halperin’s atmospheric photographs. Taken between 1975 and 1985, the year Dubrow’s closed its revolving doors, Halperin’s black and white images capture a lost era of assimilating Jewish immigrants and community. They talk about the grit of New York and the comfort inside. 

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Marcia Bricker Halperin, a lifelong Brooklynite, has been photographing the character and the landscape of the city since the 1970s. Since retiring from a 35 year career teaching art and photography, she has been scanning and printing large bodies of unseen negatives from her archives. Her photography has been included in many group exhibitions, including at the Brooklyn Museum and the International Center of Photography, and is represented in a number of collections. Kibbitz & Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria is her debut book.

Kevin Baker is a novelist, historian, and journalist, who has written extensively about New York City.  His latest book, The New York Game: Baseball and the Making of the World's Greatest City, will be published by Knopf next March.