Hage started making painstakingly detailed scale models of the storefronts he photographed.
It became a way of documenting the processes of gentrification and urban renewal, he said.
A 1:12 scale model of a store front built by Randy Hage.
Over the past 15 years, I have photographed over 700 storefronts, Hage toldThe Guardian.
More than half of those have moved or have gone out of business.
In some cases, these shops have served the people of New York for decades.
They are almost like characters in the story of everyday life in the city.
