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An intimate neighborhood shot, displaying the kind of activity that people engage in when they feel relaxed in the place they live & work in. You won't see this downtown! Employees noticed the support structure that was created when a baby oak tree was planted. The new business, a restaurant and night spot, didn't yet have a laundry service, so they used the line connecting the poles supporting the tree as a clothesline for drying a wet mop & dish rags. Don't the rags make a nice reflection on the black car?
This is hardly an "art" shot--quite the opposite! Some might see it as a joke, even thinking that I set this up. (I didn't.) It's a symbol for how life is lived in my neighborhood, a place where people don't have much money (or education, unfortunately) and must use their creativity to find free or inexpensive alternatives to things they can't afford. It's a quirky place in many ways and this photo really illustrates that fact perfectly...
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Washington Heights, Upper Manhattan
New York City (2009)
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Note: The new restaurant/club eventually opened as "Altus"... It "ate" the space of the neighborhood record store, which I commemorated in a post recently, as well as a little cyber café/computer tech store which was a mighty handy place to have around when computers misbehaved...