As if to prove a point, the HWL project got completely rained out on Sunday. It was to be a short but powerful day of chalking. I was going North from Battery Park past the World Trade Center site to Chamber Street. (Getting to pass by the green building, 7 World Trade Center, on the [...]
Saturday was an exciting day for the HWL project. After drawing the chalk line through the financial district, I was going to spend the day not walking and talking, but pretty much staying in one place and meeting the people passing through. I was up early to load up the ZipCar with all of the [...]
One of my favorite things that has been written about the project was written by Andy Goodman, of “good ideas for good causes.” He talks about the people on the street pleading for you to stop and give some time (and money) regarding any number of good causes, and then says “In one of America’s [...]
Sunday was the day to travel to the Brooklyn Bridge. I went right up to the bridge too. Below the line on the East side, from 14th to Brooklyn Bridge lay the FDR drive, a waste transfer station, a huge power station, a lot of river front parks, and of most concern, innumerable New York [...]
I am sitting in Corlear’s Hook Park at Cherry Street and FDR Drive, waiting for the sun to go set. I did my first installation of the illuminated beacons for High Water Line, and am waiting to get some pictures of them after dusk. It seems as good a time as any to delve into [...]
You know it is the stereotypical New York attitude of not noticing the things happening around you. Mostly I think that is a great NYC attribute, it helps so many of us live in a really dense crowded active place. You create your own little bubble and just keep on walking. It prevented, I imagine, [...]
A number of people have asked me what I feel about the fact that the line is gone so quickly. Admittedly, mostly I am just fascinated by the changes that the line undergoes as traffic (cars, buses, foot, bike, strollers, etc) passes over it. As a car goes through it, a puff of chalk rises [...]
Today, while out in Manhattan Beach and Brighton Beach I had a photographer from Canary Project, Curtis along with me. He spent the day climbing lightposts, dodging traffic and laying on the ground to document the project. As I drew the line in front of a tall nursing home building, Curtis asked “So the nursing [...]
