In illustrating The Great Map of Williamsburg, neighborhood artist Alex Russell knew that he was creating a time capsule of an ever-evolving piece of the borough he’s long called home. What he couldn’t have predicted is that so many of the storefronts and restaurants he’d lovingly illustrated would shutter before his pictorial map was printed.
“My printer closed their doors for a few months just as my order went in,” Russell said of his…
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