Timothy McDarrah

Timothy Swann McDarrah (March, 29, 1962 – August 16, 2021) was a newspaper reporter and

McDarrah was arrested in New York in June 2005 in an FBI sting operation on charges related to online solicitation of sex with a minor, and after an eight-day trial, was sentenced to six years in a minimum security prison. His attorney blamed his client's conduct on an internet addiction.^[1]

Later career

McDarrah co-authored three books with his father,

In 2016, he began the Save the Village walking tours of key places in Greenwich Village's social history, organizing the tours around photos from his father's photograph archives of Greenwich Village.[3]

He edited a retrospective book of his father's photographs entitled Fred W. McDarrah: New York Scenes, released by Abrams Books in 2019. ^[4]

McDarrah’ s last act was to start his own downtown gallery, Art of Our Century, in 2019. “I can’t do it [create art.] But maybe my art is being of service to those that can. And to those who are interested in what an artist can do,” he wrote in a blog post on the gallery's website. The gallery helped to boost the careers of painters Khari Turner and Marc Kehoe, fiber artist Dindga McCannon, and street artist Hash Halper, who died by suicide in June, among others.[1]

McDarrah died on August 16, 2021, when a fast-moving acute leukemia took his life when he was 59. McDarrah is survived by a son, Theodore Howard McDarrah, with photographer and journalist Caroline Howard.

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