Right about the time that it became visibly obvious that something was brewing along Second Avenue in the spring of 2007 The New York Times published an article about the eventual possession and demolition of a corner building on 97th and 2nd Ave. Ce ...
Or more to the point, good luck crossing. Work on the East side of Second Avenue went much smoother and was completed more quickly than that on the West side of the avenue the many months before. It may be in part to increased efficiency from all tha ...
I was downtown on Wall Street today at 4:55 pm. I started to draw GW and the NYSE building and then heard the church bells ring at 5:00 pm. Now what! I expected something to happen on Wall St. at the NYSE: the walls would crumble, the roof wou ...
After a several month hiatus I ventured back out onto Second Avenue this week to pick up where I left off and continue illustrating the progress on the new T-Line, better known as the Second Avenue Subway. Upon picking up my sketchbook I found that I ...
A few weeks ago I was able to get a little higher up and capture a quick drawing of the work yard where all the trucks come and go from. Prior to last spring this was a small and nondescript playground that had seen better days before closing down an ...
Standing there, as if he owned the corner, one lone crew member stood idly by talking on the phone as his fellow contractors dealt with the new mess they were creating right behind him. This drawing was done about two weeks ago, right after the work ...
It had been some time since I had done any drawings on Second Avenue and with the New Year finally settling in I figured it was time to get back to it. I had an hour free one afternoon in February and walked down to see where the work was at that mom ...
It has been a few months since I posted anything on the Second Avenue subway construction. The work started nearly a year ago and you can only imagine all of the planning and preparation that has gone when you realize and see that they have only just ...
It seems hard to imagine life anywhere in NYC these days without walking under scaffolding, around a barricade, or in this case through a cage. Pedestrians herded from one end of the block to the other and then looped north, south, east, west and nor ...
About a week after the last drawing on Second Avenue I found myself in front of the Key Food on the corner of 2nd and 92nd Street, one of the many businesses greatly disturbed by the construction. The access to these buildings is getting more and mor ...
Just after the truck left its load on the street, the backhoe was in the scene again and moving the earth into the holes left by some of the work. Like bees everyone returns to their previous positions and starts at their tasks again, cutting planks ...
Talk has gone on for several years about the Second Avenue subway line, which I thought was part of the myth, and many businesses were rumored to be on their way out once the construction began. One of those reports was the demise of Rainbow on 94th ...
I came back down a little while later that same Tuesday and found that the sliver of a sidewalk that led to Laundry Boy was gone. (No, I don’t do laundry every day.) Standing on the northwest corner of 95th Street, facing south, the walk sign leads ...
Last week it seemed like Skanska, the company leading the Second Avenue subway construction, couldn’t work any closer to the buildings along the west side of the blocks affected by the digging. I was wrong. With vibration meters set up along each o ...
Life has changed slowly on Second Avenue north of 86th Street over the past ten years. That has all been altered as of late. Over the last decade a few very tall buildings have gone up on or just off of the avenue, new businesses have come and gone, ...
