I loved this and the next half a dozen series of posts, which looked at street art on Wythe Ave; of which, there is a dizzying proliferation. This week –…
On account of the frantic gentrification taking place in Williamsburg, Wythe Ave is chock-full of scaffolding clad construction sites. Here are four close-ups of scaffolding, presented as though they were…
In many cultures, crossroads are sacred and magical places, where possibilities converge and reality itself is unstable. I felt this convergence of many possible realities walking along Wythe Ave each…
A fundamental aspect of the street is the PAVEMENT. It is that which makes walking on the street possible in the first place. A fundamental aspect of urban life is…
This is it. This is number 100 of 100 Ways To See… A Street. The project is complete, and so is my short stint here in New York City. Tomorrow,…
April has been about dreams, change and new beginnings. There’s always been something cruel, yet hopeful about this month, an ambivalence captured in the most famous lines of English literature.…
Almost every night at Zebulon, a bar on Wythe Ave just after Metropolitan, a different live band / performer / DJ ensemble is featured. And every morning without fail, the…
For this third post documenting change on Wythe Ave, I thought I would borrow snapshots of 10 intersections from Google Street View, and interpose these with my own more recent…
My shoot lasted four months in total. Along the way, one of the most beautiful post-industrial buildings on Wythe Ave was completely demolished, to make way for a completely new…
The next four posts document change on the street, from different perspectives. They are an effort to “see” the street temporally, rather than spatially, as it were. In the four…
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