I love a good underdog story. The narrative gets even better when billions of dollars and pure spite collide. New York City holdouts stand as concrete monuments to stubbornness. They force wealthy developers to bend the modern skyline entirely to…
Volta: The Central Park Paradox: Un-learning the City’s Lungs
I sat in Sheep Meadow and realized a profound truth. Central Park is a manufactured artifice. The real untamed wilderness of New York City thrives within its unpredictable, chaotic, and beautiful human sprawl.
Rediscovering the Guardian Angels of 1981 in NYC
Pictures of the Guardian Angels in New York City in 1981. In 1981, photographer Geoffrey Hiller was shooting this story for some European magazines. He bonded with a young Latino man, Apache. Apache lived in Hell’s Kitchen and Hiller ended up…