Matthew Scarpa, a native of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, is vice-president and slide curator of the all-volunteer non-for-profit Bay Ridge Historical Society. Currently, Scarpa is an Editor/Picture Desk Editor with a imaging rights management agency in New York City, featuring the work of premier photographers from around the world. He has Bachelors Degrees in History and Art History. His first book Postcard History Series: Bay Ridge was published in 2013 with Arcadia Publishing.