bronx views

A photo from February 2009, from Highbridge Park in upper Manhattan. This is a view of The Bronx over the East River. It was one of the first photos I took that my militant Israeli photography teacher approved of. I still remember what she said: "Now this--this is interesting."

Highbridge Park

Highbridge Park up in Washington Heights is a peculiar place. I avoided it for a while because it is literally depressed in both senses of the word, and I like to shoot places at sunrise. You can't really see into it from the street, because it's sunken from view into the Harlem River and...you just don't know what goes down in there, although you can imagine. But I really wanted to get down there. I'd heard about some crazy parties that go down there, and the Old Croton Aqueduct makes for some fantastic shots. Several months ago I ventured down there with some friends.

There were, as you can imagine, a few squatter settlements, including this penthouse suite.