Forbidden Spaces: WTC Construction
Forbidden Spaces: WTC Construction
On the night of 9/11 this year I went down to ground zero to try and get a different angle on the memorial tribute.
Around 1:30am, I was the only person in the neighborhood except for police and a skeleton crew of construction workers. I struck up a conversation with a passing worker, asking about the specks of what looked like huge glitter in the beams of light (which turned out to be thousands of birds who deviated from their natural migratory patterns).
I spent about half an hour talking with my new friend about many things New York, and people we knew who were lost in the towers almost a decade ago; at which point he turned to me and said, “Would you like a tour of the site?”
The next hour or so I was treated to a clandestine perspective of the construction that very few get to see. This is my favorite image from my time inside the site.
(image is shot from the base of what used to be Tower 2, looking 4 floors underground into the sub-structure construction – The tribute lights are actually 2 blocks south of the site this year because they can’t put them on the actual site – due to construction).
At the request of the nameless worker who gave me the tour, I waited a month to publish the image.
WTC – New Construction and 9/11 Tribute
Ground Zero construction site
The annual tribute to 9/11 taken from the foot of the construction site of the new World Trade Center. The building to the right is the ongoing construction of Building 1 (the Freedom Tower), after many year of delays, now built up to 38 floors.
Ghost of the Keller Hotel – Greenwich Village NYC
Keller Hotel (abandoned) - Greenwich Village, NYC
Built in 1897, and designed by Julius Munckwitz, The Keller hotel was a seaman’s hotel built in the Renaissance Revival style near the transatlantic cruise docks on the Hudson River. It Provided food for immigrants at Ellis Island, and later after the decline of he maritime industry was a flophouse for out-of-work sailors.
Manhattan Fireworks – 2010
Click on the image for a gallery gallery of images from this years fireworks (48 images)...
The fireworks over Manhattan never disappoint… I’ve posted a larger gallery this year – it may be overkill, but for those of you who didn’t get to see the display can enjoy highlights here.
Click on the image above to start the gallery, then click on the right of left of the image to go forward or back.
The iPhone as Polaroid
Junior's Restaurant - Brooklyn, NY
Since the demise of Polaroid, I’ve been looking for solutions to take the place of my beloved SX-70.
The new Polaroid compatible film from The Impossible Project will be available soon, but in the interim, the shakeitphoto app on my iphone has been a fun substitute. Now If I could only get it to work with my strobes…
Fireworks over Manhattan
Click on the image for a small gallery of images from this years fireworks…
This year the NYC fireworks were over the Hudson River, so it was either be crushed in with thousands of people to watch the fireworks against the New Jersey Skyline, or take a short ferry ride to Weehawken (just across the river) for a better view, and a much smaller crowd watching the festivities with NYC as the background. Easy Choice.
