urbanism

Broadway is a street in Brooklyn that I would have loved to shoot when I studied photo but could have been shot at in the process.

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Going back to Broadway, I had a big interest in documenting city infrastructure, especially the decline of highways and elevated expressways. But before that, it was the rail lines that started this movement in urban development.

Pictured: the one and only Broadway Junction

I always liked the idea of elevated roads lifting cars above the city like airplanes. With the subway, it seems like what was once a symbol of progress has become a place of decay and danger at night. 

Video: Somewhere along the F line(?) Queens when visiting for NFT NYC 2022 (rip)

While in NY, I only really felt safe in Greenpoint, Williamsburg and Dumbo areas of Brooklyn while staying along the J line. I think I’m mostly on edge because of the shooting I saw at Utica, it really is an adjustment coming from Canada.

Yeah, I think the wealth disparity is a lot more noticeable in the US. If you’re homeless, you may also be disabled bc the private healthcare. It just has more extremes of both people doing really well and really not well.

i feel like there’s an undercurrent of fear or danger there that is unlike anything we experience in most of canada, even in places like vancouver’s dtes. i didn’t feel like that in manhattan as much as brooklyn, but the us in general has such a different vibe