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Mohawk ironworkers are scattered on projects throughout the city, from the Freedom Tower in downtown Manhattan, to the Bronx and Staten Island. The New York construction industry was crippled by the recession and the burst of the housing bubble. With banks only offering loans for construction projects at prohibitively high interest rates, no projects could get financing and work shut down. Hundreds of thousands of jobs were lost, and are only now slowly recovering. Pete Marquis is working at this site, at 125th St. and Broadway in West Harlem, with only a few dozen other ironworkers.
I´m going to start a serie of all my refused negatives, the failures, the disappointments.
Now I will search through my archives, looking for the imperfect, the flawed and destroyed.
Maybe it´s time for my to give them another chance, to look at them again and revaluate.
I will try to love them.
And perhaps try to love my self
The Mohawk river is the largest tributary of the Hudson river.. It spans 149 miles through seven counties in upstate NY