10th Ave Between 43rd St and 45th St
Once again my schedule for shooting photos for this project has given me a completely skewed perspective on a block. What would normally be a busy stretch of 10th Avenue, filled with bars and restaurants, was utterly dead at 9am on a Sunday when I visited. Does this goes against my stated goal of accurate documentation for the site? Perhaps. But there's no way I'd be able to schedule my photo shooting to coincide with the various busy periods of each neighborhood. So that's just too bad.
There's an extreme contrast between the new and old apartments here. They share the same walls yet feature polarized visions of architecture. It's all a bit jarring. The overflow of bars, restaurants and food stores here made it feel like a place I ought to re-visit when the weather is nicer.
Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 8:00AM | Neighborhoods: Clinton, Hell's Kitchen, Upper West Side | Borough: Manhattan | 1 Comment
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Reminds me of something I read this morning, one of the sections in "Low Life" where Luc Sante gets a little poetic:
"Night is the permanent revolution, that of the globe. Every sundown, the streets change, becoming sinister or libidinous, or, for that matter, longer or narrower or unexpectedly twisted. The familiar rebels against those who presume to know it. The map is altered and time is telescoped. Daylight restores things to their normal condition, or is that really their normal condition? The map of the city wrinkles and unfolds, wrinkles and unfolds."
Anyway, these slices of the city you're cataloging are invaluable; best wishes that you keep it up.