Debbie Carter
@villagerexpat.bsky.social
Missing historic Greenwich Village. Chasing the rents in NYC, now on the Upper East Side. Believer in luck & timing, walking tours & historic preservation. Blog about my NYC ancestors and my mother's art at villagerexpat.com.
My mother's painting "The Boxing Match, Duquesne Gardens, 1952" on view @huntingtonarts.bsky.social 2/17-3/22. Likely a scene from the Dapper Dan tourney painted for Howard Worner's class at Carnegie Tech School of Art. Blog post: tinyurl.com/24zy4tb8 @post-gazette.com @cmualumni.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 8:29 PM
My mother's painting "The Boxing Match, Duquesne Gardens, 1952" on view @huntingtonarts.bsky.social 2/17-3/22. Likely a scene from the Dapper Dan tourney painted for Howard Worner's class at Carnegie Tech School of Art. Blog post: tinyurl.com/24zy4tb8 @post-gazette.com @cmualumni.bsky.social
January 25, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Remembering A. Fitz & Sons butchers, est. 1867 in Sutton Place, now Simchick Meats on First Ave. bet. 54th/55th streets www.villagerexpat.com/2025/11/reme... Part of my mother's "Midtown Merchants" series rendered in the 1980s, posted on barbaraboydcarter.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Remembering A. Fitz & Sons butchers, est. 1867 in Sutton Place, now Simchick Meats on First Ave. bet. 54th/55th streets www.villagerexpat.com/2025/11/reme... Part of my mother's "Midtown Merchants" series rendered in the 1980s, posted on barbaraboydcarter.com
My mother's "House Analysis" project as an art student at Carnegie Tech in the early 1950s. pictured: Barbara Boyd Carter in Morewood Gardens dorm & the former Farrell-Bailey mansion/College Club on No. Craig St. www.villagerexpat.com/2025/10/my-m... @library.cmu.edu @warhol.org @post-gazette.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
My mother's "House Analysis" project as an art student at Carnegie Tech in the early 1950s. pictured: Barbara Boyd Carter in Morewood Gardens dorm & the former Farrell-Bailey mansion/College Club on No. Craig St. www.villagerexpat.com/2025/10/my-m... @library.cmu.edu @warhol.org @post-gazette.com