This location perfectly illustrates the gallery’s mission, which is to present photography from the spaces in between—from artists who often fall through the cracks of the arbitrary and dated classifications of traditional curatorship.

Founded by photographer agent Bruce Kramer and photographer Robert DiScalfani, who lives and works in the neighborhood, Bond Street Gallery is the first photography gallery in the area. It is housed in a 100-year-old townhouse that the founders have restored while keeping the original structure and feel of the building intact.

Inside it has exposed brick walls, and out back is a tranquil courtyard. Bond Street Gallery will blend fine art and commercial photography, the fields in which both founders have worked and lived for decades. “These two worlds are becoming more and more interwoven,” says Kramer, “and we want to create an outlet that reflects that.” The gallery will also mix vintage and contemporary, famous and undiscovered, homegrown and foreign. The initial roster of photographers includes Harold Feinstein, Robert DiScalfani, Mitch Dobrowner, Fabrice Fouillet, Josef Hoflehner, Anthony Mandler, Cristine McConnell, Jason Mullins, Henri Silberman, Chris Steele-Perkins, and James White. Bond Street Gallery will show their work in the gallery and on its website, www.bondstreetgallery.com, which will offer online purchase.

Bond Street Gallery’s inaugural exhibition is Coney Island of the Heart, centered on the work of Harold Feinstein. It celebrates the history of Coney Island as the playground of the working-class melting pot through exuberant and singular images of the Jews, Italians, African-Americans, Russians, Puerto Ricans, and others who have played there. Other photographers on display include: Bruce Davidson, Bruce Gilden, Sid Grossman, Harold Roth, and Henri Silberman.