Grate On The Hudson

For years, New York has been trying to clean up the East Bank of the Hudson River. There is a longstanding project to transform the run-down piers into parkland.

Kristin and I lived one block from the river. There is a fenced off strip near the river full of equipment and supplies for the construction project. They had a stack of these sewer grates sitting there waiting to be installed. I noticed that they were already beginning to show some signs of age even before they had served any productive purpose. I shot this picture one day in the Summer of 2001. It was about 90 degrees out, and the metal was hot to the touch.

A few months later, they removed all of the supplies from this area to make room for the crews that cleaned the debris from September 11th. I still don’t think they have installed any of these things yet…

Posted: March 14th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Photos | View Comments

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