tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58381887890583262032024-03-15T21:10:20.543-04:00Nathan Kensinger PhotographyThe Abandoned & Industrial Edges of New York CityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger148125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5838188789058326203.post-55456838320749879182022-07-10T17:41:00.005-04:002023-02-09T10:39:51.940-05:00New Work<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2CLp8Fd0_l02VIfRyx-gAyBZBE8U_Ep-ZJPKOFPU8WUhnERGBZYZjH3oYyFlynBjGbfVxqYYQH_ufyr4TXmHHHWf8wC5CdFbHOW2Mzq4_9yBBAaUq9A3Hv51myWLFVITKiD6fZSKTeKAVmErSzHMJRmmeAwiR9y65GMHX1QVVwXXbgOkL6UTSqiEE/s1500/04_Kensinger_LIC_DSC_6655.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="440" data-original-height="1001" data-original-width="1500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2CLp8Fd0_l02VIfRyx-gAyBZBE8U_Ep-ZJPKOFPU8WUhnERGBZYZjH3oYyFlynBjGbfVxqYYQH_ufyr4TXmHHHWf8wC5CdFbHOW2Mzq4_9yBBAaUq9A3Hv51myWLFVITKiD6fZSKTeKAVmErSzHMJRmmeAwiR9y65GMHX1QVVwXXbgOkL6UTSqiEE/s400/04_Kensinger_LIC_DSC_6655.jpg"/></a></div>This website is primarily a collection of documentary photoessays published between 2007 and 2012 by Nathan Kensinger, exploring <a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com">The Abandoned and Industrial Edges of New York City</a>. His photo essays were then published from 2012 to 2020 as the column <a href="https://ny.curbed.com/camera-obscura" target="_blank">Camera Obscura at Curbed NY</a>. Since 2020, Kensinger has continued to document New York City's changing landscape, in photographs, films, articles, and public art installations. His most recent photo essays have been published since 2020 at <a href="https://gothamist.com/staff/nathan-kensinger" target="_blank">WNYC/Gothamist</a>, New York City’s public radio station. To view all of Nathan Kensinger's work, visit the website <a href="https://nathankensinger.com">www.nathankensinger.com</a> <div class="blogger-post-footer">Nathan Kensinger Photography
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On August 25th, 2018, my latest documentary film, <a href="http://managedretreatfilm.com/">Managed Retreat</a>, premiered at <a href="https://www.rooftopfilms.com/event/closing-night-2018/">Rooftop Films</a>. Managed Retreat is a short documentary portrait of three New York City neighborhoods that were purchased by the New York State government in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, to be demolished and returned to nature as part of the city’s first ‘managed retreat’ from rising sea levels. This observational documentary follows the process of retreat over the course of five seasons in three waterfront communities on Staten Island, as homes are destroyed, streets are abandoned, and wild animals begin to return.<br />
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Managed Retreat was inspired by my photographs of Oakwood Beach, Ocean Breeze and Graham Beach in Staten Island. These photographs have been published in a <a href="https://ny.curbed.com/2014/10/29/10029950/residents-retreat-from-staten-islands-hard-hit-waterfront">series</a> of <a href="https://ny.curbed.com/2015/10/29/9905926/three-years-after-sandy-returning-staten-island-to-nature">photo</a> <a href="https://ny.curbed.com/2016/10/27/13431288/hurricane-sandy-staten-island-wetlands-climate-change">essays</a> at Curbed NY, and have been featured in <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3252">Nature Climate Change</a> and the <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/photographer-documents-uneven-hurricane-sandy-recovery">PBS Newshour</a>.<br />
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Managed Retreat is now screening at film festivals and being exhibited in galleries worldwide, including screenings at the Imagine Science Film Festival, Environmental Film Festival Australia, and Princeton Environmental Film Festival.<br />
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More details on the film can be seen at: <a href="http://managedretreatfilm.com/">www.managedretreatfilm.com</a><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When Hurricane Sandy made landfall in New York City five years ago, it caused massive devastation in many of the unique coastal communities that had been documented on this website. In the five years since the storm, many of these communities have undergone a radical transformation. Some have been almost entirely rebuilt, after being crushed and burned to the ground during the storm surge. Others have been demolished as part of a managed retreat from the waterfront. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The entire coast of the city has undergone enormous changes, and will change even more dramatically in the years to come, as larger storm barriers are built and as sea levels continue to rise. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The following is a chronological list of my photo essays from the past five years about the changes that have occurred along New York City's waterfront since Hurricane Sandy. They were all published by the website<a href="https://ny.curbed.com/"> Curbed NY</a> as part of my ongoing column <a href="https://ny.curbed.com/camera-obscura">Camera Obscura</a>, which was begun in 2012, just a few months before the storm. </span><br />
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- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/10/30/surveying_sandys_damage_in_red_hook_dumbo_and_gowanus.php" target="_blank">Surveying Sandy's Damage in Red Hook, Dumbo, and Gowanus</a> (October 2012)</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/11/19/a_look_at_the_postsandy_cleanup_in_the_rockaways.php" target="_blank">A Look at the Post-Sandy Cleanup in the Rockaways</a> (November 2012)<br />
- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/11/05/surveying_sandys_damage_to_staten_island_one_week_later.php" target="_blank">Surveying Sandy's Damage to Staten Island One Week Later</a> (November 2012)<br />
- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/11/02/surveying_queens_rockaway_peninsula_after_the_storm.php" target="_blank">Surveying Queens' Rockaway Peninsula After the Storm</a> (Novermber 2012)</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">2013</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/01/24/wondering_what_hurricane_sandy_means_for_red_hooks_future.php" target="_blank">Wondering What Hurricane Sandy Means for Red Hook's Future</a> (January 2013)</span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- </span><a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/02/22/how_the_newtown_creek_area_is_faring_after_the_storm.php" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank">How the Newtown Creek Area is Faring After the Storm</a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (February 2013)</span></span><br />
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- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/02/07/how_dumbos_arts_spaces_have_recovered_from_the_storm.php" target="_blank">How Dumbo's Arts Spaces Have Recovered From the Storm</a> (February 2013)</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/05/23/coney_islands_boardwalks_and_beaches_prep_for_memorial_day.php" target="_blank">Coney Island's Boardwalks and Beaches Prep for Memorial Day</a> (May 2013)<br />
- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/05/02/demolition_and_recovery_in_the_postsandy_rockaways.php" target="_blank">Demolition and Recovery in the Post-Sandy Rockaways</a> (May 2013)<br />
- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/04/18/tracing_the_scars_of_hurricane_sandy_on_staten_island.php" target="_blank">Tracing The Scars of Hurricane Sandy on Staten Island</a> (April 2013)</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/10/30/coney_islands_residents_forgotten_struggle_to_recover.php">Coney Island's Residents, Forgotten, Struggle to Recover</a> (October 2013)<br />
- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/10/29/abandoned_buildings_red_tape_mark_a_year_on_staten_island.php">Abandoned Buildings, Red Tape Mark a Year on Staten Island</a> (October 2013)<br />
- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/10/28/tracing_a_poststorm_year_of_change_in_the_rockaways.php" target="_blank">Tracing A Post-Storm Year of Change in the Rockaways</a> (October 2013)</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/07/31/fort_tilden_beach_reopens_to_a_changing_neighborhood.php">Fort Tilden Beach Reopens to a Changing Neighborhood</a> (July 2014)</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/10/27/breezy_point_residents_choose_to_remain_and_rebuild.php" target="_blank">Breezy Point Residents Choose to Remain and Rebuild</a> (October 2014)</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/10/28/two_years_on_coney_island_enclave_still_awaits_recovery.php" target="_blank">Two Years On, Coney Island Enclave Still Awaits Recovery</a> (October 2014)</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/10/29/residents_retreat_from_staten_islands_hardhit_waterfront.php" target="_blank">Residents Retreat From Staten Island's Hard-Hit Waterfront</a> (October 2014)</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">2015</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/01/22/tracing_poststorm_recovery_in_new_york_and_new_orleans.php">Tracing Post-Storm Recovery in New York and New Orleans</a> (January 2015)</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/07/30/what_comes_next_for_the_changing_coney_island_boardwalk.php" target="_blank">What Comes Next for the Changing Coney Island Boardwalk?</a> (July 2015)</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/08/27/is_this_the_end_of_the_brooklyn_bungalow.php" target="_blank">Is This The End of the Brooklyn Bungalow?</a> (August 2015)<br />
- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/08/13/rockaway_boardwalk_reemerges_with_a_new_identity.php" target="_blank">Rockaway Boardwalk Re-emerges With a New Identity</a> (August 2015)</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/09/17/the_slow_resurgence_of_the_rockaway_bungalow.php" target="_blank">The Slow Resurgence of the Rockaway Bungalow</a> (September 2015)</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/2015/10/29/9905926/three-years-after-hurricane-sandy-returning-staten-island-to-nature" target="_blank">Three Years After Sandy, Returning Staten Island to Nature</a> (October 2015)</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">2016</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/2016/3/17/11248864/jamaica-bay-documentary-film" target="_blank">Forecasting the Future on NYC's Climate Change Frontlines</a> (March 2016)</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/2016/4/28/11518310/staten-island-new-dorp-auction" target="_blank">Can Auction Transform a Storm-Damaged Corner of Staten Island?</a> (April 2016)</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/2016/9/29/13101524/photo-essay-nyc-queens-hawtree-creek" target="_blank">A small Queens community confronts climate change along Hawtree Creek</a> (September 2016)</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> - <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/2016/10/27/13431288/hurricane-sandy-staten-island-wetlands-climate-change" target="_blank">Four years after Sandy, Staten Island's shoreline is transformed</a> (October 2016)</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/2016/12/1/13799758/staten-island-new-creek-bluebelt-photo-essay" target="_blank">On Staten Island, a centuries-old waterway helps shape new wetlands</a> (December 2016)</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">2017</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/2017/1/26/14390694/donald-trump-new-york-climate-change-hurricane-sandy" target="_blank">Climate change in Trump’s NYC: How at-risk neighborhoods are combating rising sea levels</a> (January 2017)</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">- <a href="https://ny.curbed.com/2017/4/13/15280808/climate-change-queens-edgemere-photo-essay" target="_blank">A long-neglected Queens neighborhood grapples with the effects of climate change in NYC</a> (April 2017)</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">- </span><a href="https://ny.curbed.com/2017/5/18/15655518/new-york-2140-climate-fiction-photo-essay" target="_blank">Imagining a New York City ravaged by climate change</a><span style="color: white;"> (May 2017)</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">- </span><a href="https://ny.curbed.com/2017/6/1/15721550/staten-island-queens-climate-change-photo-essay" target="_blank">In Queens and Staten Island, two competing visions for New York's waterfront</a><span style="color: white;"> (June 2017)</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">- <a href="https://ny.curbed.com/2017/10/12/16462790/queens-climate-change-jamaica-bay-flooding-photos" target="_blank">In Queens, chronic flooding and sea-level rise go hand in hand</a> (October 2017)</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">- <a href="https://ny.curbed.com/2017/10/27/16556084/hurricane-sandy-anniversary-sea-gate-brooklyn-photos" target="_blank">Hurricane Sandy five years later: Brooklyn’s Sea Gate is stuck in a middle ground</a> (October 2017)<br />
- <a href="https://ny.curbed.com/2017/10/26/16551232/queens-hurricane-sandy-anniversary-breezy-point-photos" target="_blank">Hurricane Sandy five years later: Rebuilding in Breezy Point</a> (October 2017)<br />
- <a href="https://ny.curbed.com/2017/10/25/16528286/hurricane-sandy-staten-island-ocean-breeze-photos" target="_blank">Hurricane Sandy five years later: A Staten Island neighborhood transformed by ‘managed retreat’</a> (October 2017)<br />
- <a href="https://ny.curbed.com/2017/10/26/16551182/hurricane-sandy-nyc-brooklyn-queens-storm-barriers" target="_blank">Five years after Hurricane Sandy, NYC's coastal communities remain vulnerable</a> (October 2017)</span><br />
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From September 2, 2017 to December 31, 2017, the exhibit "<a href="http://www.mcny.org/exhibition/quench-thirst-new-yorkers">To Quench the Thirst of New Yorkers: The Croton Aqueduct at 175</a>" will be on view at the Museum of the City of New York. This exhibit traces the history of the Croton Aqueduct from the 1800s to present day, presenting historic drawings, paintings and letters from the museum's collection alongside a newly commissioned set of ten photographs taken by Nathan Kensinger. These photographs explore the present day condition of the aqueduct, tracing its route from the Croton Reservoir to Manhattan, and are presented alongside original 1800s drawings of the aqueduct by engineer Fayette Tower. These photographs present modern views of the aqueduct from towns all along the Hudson, including Ossining, Irvington and Hastings on Hudson, and include a glimpse of the interior of the original brick lined structure, now nearly empty of water. </div>
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From May 19, 2017 to September 10, 2017, the exhibit "Shifting Perspectives: Photographs of Brooklyn's Waterfront" will be on view at the Brooklyn Historical Society's new space in Dumbo, Brooklyn. This exhibit features the work of 25 photographers, from the 1930's to present day, including Berenice Abbott, Rudy Burckhardt, Bruce Davidson, Morris Engel & Chester Higgins, Jr.<br />
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Four of Nathan Kensinger's photographic prints are presented in the exhibit, along with five photographs included in a gallery slideshow. These images are selections from Kensinger's ongoing documentation of New York City's waterfront, and range in date from 2007 to 2016. They include photographs from the Domino Sugar Refinery in Williamsburg, Dry Dock One in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Gowanus Canal, Sea Gate, Coney Island Creek, and Dead Horse Bay.<br />
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"Shifting Perspectives" was curated by Marilyn Symmes. The Brooklyn Historical Society writes of the exhibit: "This exhibition features the work of two dozen photographers whose images crisscross the Brooklyn shoreline, from Newtown Creek to Jamaica Bay. By picturing decades of Brooklyn’s coastal scenery, including its changing industrial and postindustrial environment, the exhibition presents dramatic panoramic vistas; spectacular aerial views; glimpses of popular recreational attractions, particularly in nearby Brooklyn Bridge Park and at Coney Island; and other scenes, including those impacted by natural or manmade forces, as well as by gentrification."<br />
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March 2017 -<br />
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This month marks the tenth anniversary of an ongoing series of photo essays which started at this website in March 2007. Published every two weeks for the past decade, these essays capture a period of remarkable change along New York City's waterfront, as many of the industrial relics of the past century were removed to make way for new residences and parks at the water's edge, even as sea level rise, climate change, storms, and economic forces radically reshaped the city.<br />
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These photo essays started as a personal project to document the rapid transformation of Brooklyn's coastline, and have since expanded to capture change in all five boroughs, and in other coastal cities. Initially intended to show unseen aspects of the contemporary landscape, they have since taken on a historic value, with hundreds of thousands of photos cataloging lost landmarks and disappearing neighborhoods. These essays have been exhibited in museums and libraries, have been published in all of New York City's major periodicals, and several of these photos are in the permanent archives of the Museum of the City of New York, the Brooklyn Historical Society, and the Brooklyn Library.<br />
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These essays are currently published as the <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/camera-obscura">Camera Obscura</a> column at Curbed NY. The first five years of essays are <a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/p/the-archives.html">archived</a> at this website, while the most recent five years can be seen at <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/">Curbed</a>. A complete list of all 212 photo essays has been amassed <a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/p/the-archives.html">here</a>. As the evolution of the city continues, this archive of photo essays will continue to grow.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Nathan Kensinger Photography
The Abandoned & Industrial Edges of New York City
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From August 26, 2016 to Fall 2017, the exhibit "Industrial Twilight: Photographs of the Changing Brooklyn Waterfront" will be exhibited in the Atlantic Avenue Subway Station. This solo exhibit of Nathan Kensinger's photographs presents a retrospective of his work from the past decade, documenting the post-industrial coast of Brooklyn. "Industrial Twilight" was curated by the <a href="http://web.mta.info/mta/aft/">MTA Arts & Design</a> program, and presents eight photographic transparencies, each printed six feet wide and installed in a backlit <a href="http://web.mta.info/mta/aft/lightbox/">Lightbox</a>. <br />
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"The images in Industrial Twilight show us the eerie stillness of places where industry thrived, from Sunset Park to Williamsburg and the Brooklyn Navy Yard," writes the MTA. "Kensinger finds poetry in these places and leaves a lasting reminder that while change is constant, history surrounds us with a reminder that before Brooklyn became a “brand”, it was an economic engine that employed thousands of people. Kensinger's images reveal a lone canoeist gliding down the Gowanus Canal past a concrete plant still going strong with the F train in the background, and images of the pre-transformation waterfront at Bush Terminal and the Domino Sugar Refinery. The architecture and lighting in the images of the Brooklyn Army Terminal and Greenpoint Terminal Market provides a haunting but reverent look at the borough in this moment of time, while an overgrown home at Admiral’s Row reflects that growth is never ending, and the waterfront still captures the imagination of the borough."<br />
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This exhibit was sponsored by <a href="http://griffineditions.com/">Griffin Editions</a> and <a href="https://www.kodakalaris.com/">Kodak Alaris</a>. For more information on Industrial Twilight, visit the <a href="http://web.mta.info/mta/aft/lightbox/lightbox.html?station=4&img=6">MTA Arts & Design exhibit page</a>. <br />
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Summer 2015 - Summer 2016<br />
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Since 2015, I have been co-curating <a href="http://chancecologies.org/" target="_blank">Chance Ecologies</a>, an ongoing project creating a framework for artistic practices exploring unplanned, post-industrial wild spaces in New York City. This project began with a summer-long investigation of <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/2015/12/17/10620282/a-dispatch-from-the-last-wild-days-of-hunters-point-south" target="_blank">Hunter's Point South, Queens</a> in 2015, led by Catherine Grau and Stephen Zacks and myself. In 2016, it expanded into an exploration of the Flushing River, curated by Catherine Grau and myself as part of a <a href="http://chancecologies.org/studio-in-the-park/" target="_blank">6-week-long artists residency</a> at the Studio In The Park at the Queens Museum, and an <a href="http://www.queensmuseum.org/events/chance-ecologies-newtown-creek" target="_blank">exploration of the Newtown Creek</a> for the Queens Museum's exhibit <a href="http://www.queensmuseum.org/2016/02/nonstop-metropolis" target="_blank">Nonstop Metropolis: The Remix</a>. Together with a group of over 20 international artists based in Brooklyn and Queens, Chance Ecologies has created an invaluable archive of materials from these unique parts of the city's waterfront. In October 2016, this work was exhibited at the Queens Museum in a new group show titled <a href="http://www.queensmuseum.org/2016/10/chance-ecologies-queens" target="_blank">Chance Ecologies: Queens</a>.<br />
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For more information on Chance Ecologies, visit <a href="http://www.chancecologies.org/">www.chancecologies.org</a><br />
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The Abandoned & Industrial Edges of New York City
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Over the Spring and Summer of 2015, <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/" target="_blank">Curbed NY</a> published a series of my photo essays about New York City's endangered vernacular architecture and abandoned landmarks, for my column <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/tags/camera-obscura" target="_blank">Camera Obscura</a>. Written as the city celebrated the 50th anniversary of the landmarks law, these essays explored some of the important places that remain unprotected in NYC, including historic structures that the Landmarks Commission has refused to designate, as well as officially designated Landmarks that have been abandoned and left to collapse. In both cases, the fates of these important structures have been left to the whims of developers and city agencies.<br />
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These photo essays included everything from 30 year old Bronx casitas to 1930's bungalows & boardwalks to the 19th century officer's houses of Admiral's Row, the famed Fulton Fish Market, and a collections of civic structures - schools, courthouses, police precincts - which are now facing demolition, collapse, or redevelopment.<br />
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A link to each photo essay is included below:<br />
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- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/04/30/in_the_bronx_art_fills_an_abandoned_neighborhood_landmark.php" target="_blank">In the Bronx, Art Fills an Abandoned Neighborhood Landmark</a> (April 2015)<br />
- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/05/28/whats_next_for_new_york_citys_many_abandoned_landmarks.php" target="_blank">What's Next for New York City's Many Abandoned Landmarks?</a> (May 2015)<br />
- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/06/11/revisiting_brooklyns_abandoned_admirals_row_before_its_gone.php" target="_blank">Revisiting Brooklyn's Abandoned Admiral's Row Before It's Gone</a> (June 2015)<br />
- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/06/25/as_high_bridge_reopens_a_neglected_park_remains_in_its_shadow.php" target="_blank">As High Bridge Reopens, a Neglected Park Remains in Its Shadow</a> (June 2015)<br />
- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/07/30/what_comes_next_for_the_changing_coney_island_boardwalk.php" target="_blank">What Comes Next for the Changing Coney Island Boardwalk?</a> (July 2015)<br />
- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/08/13/rockaway_boardwalk_reemerges_with_a_new_identity.php" target="_blank">Rockaway Boardwalk Re-emerges With a New Identity</a> (August 2015)<br />
- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/08/27/is_this_the_end_of_the_brooklyn_bungalow.php" target="_blank">Is This The End of the Brooklyn Bungalow?</a> (August 2015)<br />
- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/09/17/the_slow_resurgence_of_the_rockaway_bungalow.php" target="_blank">The Slow Resurgence of the Rockaway Bungalow</a> (September 2015)<br />
- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/10/01/inside_the_casitas_of_the_south_bronxs_community_gardens.php" target="_blank">Inside the Casitas of the South Bronx's Community Gardens</a> (October 2015)<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Nathan Kensinger Photography
The Abandoned & Industrial Edges of New York City
kensinger.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5838188789058326203.post-37912336636513734602015-03-13T02:43:00.000-04:002015-03-13T10:41:26.969-04:00Documenting A Decade of Destruction<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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March 13, 2015 -<br />
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Ten years ago today, I decided to explore an abandoned powerhouse in Long Island City. It was not my first time inside an abandoned building, but it was the first time I purposefully brought a camera with me to photograph the space. Roaming through the old structure, into empty offices, dusty tennis courts, 275-foot smokestacks, and a turbine hall with a missing roof, I captured the initial images for a documentary project that has continued throughout the past decade.<br />
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125,000 photographs later, this project is still evolving and expanding. Begun as an attempt to document the rapid destruction of New York City's industrial heritage in the new millennium, this growing collection of photographs cohered two years later into a series of photo essays, published online once every two weeks since March 13, 2007. There are now <a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/p/the-archives.html" target="_blank">170 original photo essays</a> in this series, documenting New York City's abandoned and industrial edges on this website, and at my Curbed column <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/tags/camera-obscura" target="_blank">Camera Obscura</a>, which began in 2012.<br />
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Over the years, the focus of these essays has changed from Urban Exploration adventures inside post-industrial ruins, to portraits of decaying and demolished neighborhoods, to considerations of how humans are altering the natural landscape, especially along the waterfront. Ultimately, the project has grown to become a large scale portrait of the specific effects of the Anthropocene Era within New York City, chronicling the permanent impact of humans on the environment, from the industrial revolution to today.<br />
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The Long Island City Power Station, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/22/realestate/streetscapes-long-island-city-power-station-1906-railroad-landmark-queens.html" target="_blank">built in 1906</a>, was a coal powered facility that ceased operations in the 1920's and became home to the Schwartz Chemical Company in the 1950's. Shortly after I visited it, the building was partially
demolished, like many of the city's other century-old powerhouses, refineries, silos, factories, warehouses and garages, which I have also photographed. Yet even as the aging structures of the industrial revolution are swept away from the American landscape, the ongoing impact of the pollution caused by human activities continues to shape our future. Radiation, oil spills, chemical waste and sewage overflows are all daily realities in New York City, and are helping to cause the sea level rise that will bring more storms like Hurricane Sandy.<br />
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In the context of human history, or of a geologic era, 10 years is nothing. But within the past decade, an enormous amount of change has occurred, both in the built environment and in our understanding of the impact we are having on the globe. In the brilliantly illuminating book "The Sixth Extinction," published in 2014, <a href="http://elizabethkolbert.com/" target="_blank">Elizabeth Kolbert</a> explores the meaning of this period of time, as it exists within the Anthropocene, the current geological era that is only <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/holocene-anthropocene-human-epoch" target="_blank">now being recognized</a>: "Even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred millions years or so, be able to tell that something extraordinary happened at the moment in time that counts for us as today. This is the case even though a hundred million years from now, all that we consider to be the great
works of man - the sculptures and the libraries, the monuments and the
museums, the cities and the factories - will be compressed into a layer
of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper." <br />
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December 2014 - <br />
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As 2014 comes to a close, <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/" target="_blank">Curbed NY</a> has published the final installment of my recent mini-series about New York City's forgotten waterways. This series explores lesser-known waterways in all five boroughs of New York City, including Staten Island's <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/12/18/littleknown_lemon_creek_winds_through_staten_island_history.php" target="_blank">Lemon Creek</a>, Brooklyn's <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/11/20/coney_islands_untamed_creek_caught_between_past_future.php" target="_blank">Coney Island Creek</a>, Queens' <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/12/04/following_hook_creek_through_ghost_towns_and_wetlands.php" target="_blank">Hook Creek</a> and <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/10/09/queens_forgotten_river_looks_ahead_to_cleanup_and_change.php" target="_blank">Flushing River</a>, and the <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/09/25/new_yorks_onceneglected_harlem_river_experiences_a_rebirth.php" target="_blank">Harlem River</a>, which flows between Manhattan and the Bronx.<br />
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As sea levels continue to rise worldwide, New York City is in the process of reconsidering its relationship with the water that surrounds it. Each of these photo essays explores a different aspect of the city's plans for the waterfront, while examining issues of pollution, flooding, resiliency and access. This series documented many the city's new waterfront parks, wetlands and marshes, while also telling the stories of communities living on the water's edge.<br />
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A link to each photo essay is included below: <br />
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- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/09/25/new_yorks_onceneglected_harlem_river_experiences_a_rebirth.php">New York's Once-Neglected Harlem River Experiences a Rebirth</a> (Sept. 2014)<br />
- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/10/09/queens_forgotten_river_looks_ahead_to_cleanup_and_change.php" target="_blank">Queens Forgotten River Looks Ahead to Cleanup and Change</a> (Oct. 2014)<br />
- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/11/20/coney_islands_untamed_creek_caught_between_past_future.php" target="_blank">Coney Island's Untamed Creek, Caught Between Past and Future</a> (Nov. 2014)<br />
- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/12/04/following_hook_creek_through_ghost_towns_and_wetlands.php" target="_blank">Following Hook Creek Through Ghost Towns and Wetlands</a> (Dec. 2014)<br />
- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/12/18/littleknown_lemon_creek_winds_through_staten_island_history.php" target="_blank">Little-Known Lemon Creek Winds Through Staten Island History</a> (Dec. 2014)<br />
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October 2014 -<br />
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For the second anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/" target="_blank">Curbed</a> has published my three part photo essay looking at how New York City's waterfront has been transformed since the storm. This series of photo essays - collectively titled <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/tags/the-post-sandy-shoreline" target="_blank">The Post-Sandy Shoreline</a> - looks at the divergent recovery efforts in three different areas that were hardest hit by the storm - <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/10/27/breezy_point_residents_choose_to_remain_and_rebuild.php" target="_blank">Breezy Point</a> in the Rockaways, <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/10/28/two_years_on_coney_island_enclave_still_awaits_recovery.php" target="_blank">Sea Gate</a> in Brooklyn and <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/10/29/residents_retreat_from_staten_islands_hardhit_waterfront.php" target="_blank">Oakwood Beach and Ocean Breeze</a> in Staten Island. These photo essays encompass two years of photographic work, tracking the progress made since Hurricane Sandy devastated New York's waterfront. They can be viewed at Curbed using the following links:<br />
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- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/10/27/breezy_point_residents_choose_to_remain_and_rebuild.php" target="_blank">Breezy Point Residents Choose to Remain and Rebuild</a><br />
- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/10/28/two_years_on_coney_island_enclave_still_awaits_recovery.php" target="_blank">Two Years On, Coney Island Enclave Still Awaits Recovery</a><br />
- <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/10/29/residents_retreat_from_staten_islands_hardhit_waterfront.php" target="_blank">Residents Retreat From Staten Island's Hard-Hit Waterfront</a><br />
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From May 2014 to January 2015, the <a href="http://snug-harbor.org/visual-arts/newhouse-center-for-contemporary-art/" target="_blank">Newhouse Center For Contemporary Art</a> will be exhibiting video and sculpture from <a href="http://newtowncreekarmada.org/" target="_blank">The Newtown Creek Armada</a> as part of the group exhibit Fluid – Essential For Life. The exhibit, located at the <a href="http://snug-harbor.org/" target="_blank">Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden</a> in Staten Island, was "inspired by the symbiotic relationship of Snug Harbor with water –
from its location directly across from New York Harbor to its 10 acres
of wetlands to the Koi pond at the New York Chinese Scholar’s Garden to
the fountains of the Tuscan Garden and all the way back to its
beginnings as a home for retired sailors." <br />
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More information on Fluid can be <a href="http://snug-harbor.org/fluid-essential-for-life-may-3-2014-december-14-2014/" target="_blank">seen here</a><span id="goog_275699981"></span><span id="goog_275699982"></span>.<br />
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From April 26th to May 24th, 2014, the exhibit "<a href="http://proteusgowanus.org/water/" target="_blank">Combined Overflow</a>" was on view at <a href="http://proteusgowanus.org/" target="_blank">Proteus Gowanus</a> in Brooklyn. Combined Overflow was a group exhibition of creative responses to the Newtown
Creek and the Gowanus Canal, two New York City waterways with similar
histories of industry, pollution and neglect. Both of these salt-water
inlets were designated as federal Superfund sites in 2010, and are
currently undergoing remediation, even as new residents are lured to
their shorelines. Both have also inspired dedicated communities of
artists, innovators and explorers, who have been working to collectively
recalibrate these bodies of water as fertile sites of collaboration,
invention and public engagement.<br />
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Combined Overflow included 20 different projects created by artists including Wendy Andringa, Liz Barry, Sarah Christman, Willis Elkins, Eymund Diegel, Jose Gaytan, Jan Mun, Leif Percifield, George Trakas, Mitch Waxman and Jenifer Wightman, and groups including Brooklyn Atlantis, The Gowanus Canal Conservancy, The Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club, The Newtown Creek Alliance, The Newtown Creek Armada, The North Brooklyn Boat Club, and Urban Omnibus.<br />
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Combined Overflow was curated by Nathan Kensinger, Laura Chipley and Sarah Nelson Wright of <a href="http://newtowncreekarmada.org/" target="_blank">The Newtown Creek Armada</a>. The triptych image above includes work by Jose Gaytan, Willis Elkins and Jenifer Wightman. For more information on Combined Overflow, please visit <a href="http://proteusgowanus.org/water/" target="_blank">Proteus Gowanus</a> and read this review of the exhibit at <a href="http://untappedcities.com/2014/05/21/combined-overflow-artists-take-on-nycs-two-big-superfund-sites/" target="_blank">Untapped Cities</a>. <br />
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From November 7th to 23rd, 2013, the video installation "Remote Voyages" was on view at the 111 Front Street Galleries in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Remote Voyages was an exhibit created from video shot during <a href="http://newtowncreekarmada.org/" target="_blank">The Newtown Creek Armada</a>, a 2012 public art installation that was created in a collaboration between <a href="http://nathankensinger.com/" target="_blank">Nathan Kensinger</a>, <a href="http://laurachipley.com/" target="_blank">Laura Chipley</a> and <a href="http://sarahnelsonwright.com/" target="_blank">Sarah Nelson Wright</a>. The Armada invited the public to a engage in a remote-control boat pond built on the Newtown Creek, one of the most polluted bodies of water in the United States. Remote Voyages presented immersive voyages created during that boat pond, projected onto the gallery walls from boats floating in water.<br />
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For more information on Remote Voyages, please visit <a href="http://newtowncreekarmada.org/" target="_blank">www.newtowncreekarmada.org</a>
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October 29, 2013 -<br />
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On the one year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, two new exhibits will include selections of my photographs from the aftermath of the storm. The first is titled "<a href="http://www.mcny.org/exhibition/rising-waters" target="_blank">Rising Waters: Photographs of Sandy</a>" and will be open at the Museum of the City of New York from October 29th, 2013 through March 2, 2014. The second is titled "<a href="http://www.brooklynhistory.org//exhibitions/current.html#DocumentingSandy" target="_blank">Documenting Sandy</a>" and will be open at the Brooklyn Historical Society from October 30th to Spring, 2014. <br />
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For the past year, I have been documenting the post-Sandy recovery efforts, tracing the progress made in <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/10/29/abandoned_buildings_red_tape_mark_a_year_on_staten_island.php" target="_blank">Staten Island</a>, <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/10/28/tracing_a_poststorm_year_of_change_in_the_rockaways.php" target="_blank">the Rockaways</a>, and several Brooklyn neighborhoods. These photographs have been published in a series of photo essays at "<a href="http://ny.curbed.com/tags/camera-obscura" target="_blank">Camera Obscura</a>" - my column for Curbed - and have also been exhibited at "<a href="http://www.stjohns.edu/academics/centers/yehgallery/silent_beaches" target="_blank">Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: New York City's Forgotten Waterfront</a>." This ongoing documentation revisits numerous neighborhoods that had been photographed for this website, before the storm. <br />
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The above photograph, taken in Midland Beach, Staten Island in April 2013, is included in "Rising Waters," an exhibit of 200 photographs selected by a jury from work submitted by over a thousand photographers.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Nathan Kensinger Photography
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On September 15th, 2013, <a href="http://proteusgowanus.org/" target="_blank">Proteus Gowanus</a> opened an exhibit featuring underwater video and scientific data collected during <a href="http://newtowncreekarmada.org/gowanus-voyage/" target="_blank">Gowanus Voyage</a>, a public art installation staged on the Gowanus Canal in July 2013 by <a href="http://newtowncreekarmada.org/" target="_blank">The Newtown Creek Armada</a> and <a href="http://www.brooklynatlantis.poly.edu/" target="_blank">Brooklyn Atlantis</a>. This exhibit is a part of the <a href="http://proteusgowanus.org/hall-of-the-gowanus/" target="_blank">Hall of the Gowanus</a>, "a mini-museum and gallery of art, artifacts, maps, documents and books" dedicated to the history of the Gowanus Canal, and will be on view into 2014. <br />
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Gowanus Voyage's public art installation was initially created as part of the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance's <a href="http://www.cityofwaterday.org/" target="_blank">City of Water Day</a> with the support of the <a href="http://www.gowanuscanal.org/" target="_blank">Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club</a>, and the participation of the <a href="http://www.gowanuscanalconservancy.org/" target="_blank">Gowanus Canal Conservancy</a> and Proteus Gowanus. It was created in a collaboration between Jeffrey Laut of Brooklyn Atlantis, and <a href="http://laurachipley.com/" target="_blank">Laura Chipley</a>, <a href="http://nathankensinger.com/" target="_blank">Nathan Kensinger</a> and <a href="http://sarahnelsonwright.com/" target="_blank">Sarah Nelson Wright</a> of The Newtown Creek Armada. <br />
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From September 3rd to November 9th, 2013, St. John's University featured my photographs of New York's waterfront in a group exhibit titled "<a href="http://www.stjohns.edu/academics/centers/yehgallery/silent_beaches" target="_blank">Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: New York City's Forgotten Waterfront</a>." This exhibit, curated by Elizabeth Albert, was "an interdisciplinary
exhibition exploring waterfront areas that are remote, neglected,
or little known to the general public and which have experienced
long and sometimes tumultuous relationships with New York City’s
changing needs." The exhibit included a wide selection of my photographs from the past seven years, alongside the work of eight other artists, including <a href="http://www.marielorenz.com/" target="_blank">Marie Lorenz</a> of the Tide and Current Taxi and photographer <a href="http://www.joelmeyerowitz.com/" target="_blank">Joel Meyerowitz</a>.<br />
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An opening reception for "Silent Beaches, Untold Stories" took place on September 19th, 2013 at the Dr. M. T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery at Sun Yat Sen Hall on the St. John's University campus in Queens, New York. An artists panel took place on October 10th, 2013. For more information on the exhibit and events, please visit the exhibit's <a href="http://www.stjohns.edu/academics/centers/yehgallery/silent_beaches" target="_blank">homepage</a>. <br />
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On July 20th, 2013, "Gowanus Voyage" was launched from the banks of the Gowanus Canal. Gowanus Voyage was an interactive public boat pond created in a collaboration between <a href="http://newtowncreekarmada.org/">The Newtown Creek Armada</a> and <a href="http://www.brooklynatlantis.poly.edu/" target="_blank">Brooklyn Atlantis</a>. This public art installation invited visitors to explore above and below the surface of this historic waterway by piloting miniature remote control boats and aquatic robots from the shoreline. These watercraft were equipped with video cameras and environmental sensors, and the footage and data collected at this daylong event will be presented at a later exhibit.<br />
Gowanus Voyage was presented as part of the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance's <a href="http://www.cityofwaterday.org/" target="_blank">City of Water Day</a> with the support of the <a href="http://www.gowanuscanal.org/" target="_blank">Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club</a>, and the participation of the <a href="http://www.gowanuscanalconservancy.org/" target="_blank">Gowanus Canal Conservancy</a> and <a href="http://proteusgowanus.org/" target="_blank">Proteus Gowanus.</a> The event included public presentations by these groups, including an aerial observation balloon. Gowanus Voyage set sail from the Gowanus Dredgers boat launch near Bond Street in Gowanus, Brooklyn. <br />
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At the edges of many great cities, the social fabric begins to unravel. Far from the densely packed urban core, the individual threads of the city tapestry become visible. The extremes of poverty and wealth. The conflicts of industry versus nature, pollution versus wilderness. New development, empty lots, vernacular architecture, towering mansions, abandoned buildings, forgotten landmarks, bomb shelters, villages, graveyards. All of these things can exist at the city center, but they become much more apparent in the isolation of the edges.<br />
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The edges of these same cities are often actively hidden from visitors. Maps are created especially for outsiders that focus on the center. A truncated version of city boundaries is presented. Tourist zones are created, offering up an urban experience designed by the governing bodies. These zones are often located at the historic heart of the city, a region that is known, controllable, and organized. Here, the authorities can present their vision of a city identity, one that they are heavily invested in maintaining. In New York, this tourist zone is in lower Manhattan and Times Square. San Francisco's zone is Fisherman's Wharf, Seattle has Pike Place Market, New Orleans has the French Quarter, and Havana is focused on its old city center, Habana Vieja. In Barcelona, the central tourist zone is situated around the Gothic Quarter, a warren of narrow alleys and small shops crowded day and night with out of town visitors.</div>
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The Gothic Quarter, where the Romans built their city walls, is much like lower Manhattan, where the residents of New Amsterdam lived behind their own walls. From this tightly packed historic center, a more modern city has radiated out. From Manhattan, New York City spread out to annex its neighboring cities and towns, creating the five boroughs. In Barcelona, the modern city was created in a series of concentric circles - like Paris - moving out from its old core to overtake the small villages and towns surrounding it. The Barcelona that most visitors know today - Gaudi's architecture, La Rambla, the Eixample, the city beaches - is within short walking distance of the Gothic Quarter. The tourist map is also centered here, and does not extend out to the edges of the city. </div>
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As in New York, the outskirts of Barcelona are excluded from regular guidebooks and left to the poetic imagination, explored in works like "Secret Barcelona" and "Barcelona Noir." Scant mention can be found in mainstream publications of the neighborhoods along Barcelona's fringes. What mentions there are often devote just a sentence to a neighborhood's history, usually with a dire warning. "To be avoided." "A shantytown." "Dangerous." It is the same story in many large cities. The neighborhoods at the edges are unknown to visitors, sidelined by the government, and remain a mystery even to nearby residents. And in the side streets of these neighborhoods, the unwritten story of the city can be seen.<br />
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In Barcelona - like many cities - these neighborhoods are not particularly hard to find, although it is sometimes difficult to catch more than a glimpse into their stories. They include places like the far side of Montjuïc, where over 150,000 hand-decorated tombs are stacked onto a steep hillside, looking out over the blue waters of the industrial port. In nearby Poble Sec, the neighborhood bomb shelter built underneath Montjuïc is one of the last surviving shelters from more than 1,400 built in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War. Further into the hills above the city, the winding streets of the village of Sarria lead to dead ends and empty lots, a contrast to wealthy monasteries and mansions hidden behind walls nearby. Above Horta, outside the outer ring road, narrow vegetable gardens are carved into canyon walls near an abandoned home and a forgotten cemetery. Below, in the densely packed row houses of Nou Barris, each unique home is a single floor, sharing a common wall with all of the neighbors. Closer to the ocean, in the crumbling industrial ruins of Poble Nou, squatters and artists are being displaced from old factories by new development, a story familiar to cities around the world. And at the edge of town, where the Besos River meets the sea, children swim in factory outflows, as noxious chemicals are pumped out into the Mediterranean.<br />
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Throughout the city of Barcelona, a constant whir of cranes and the pounding of jackhammers makes it clear that all of these unique neighborhoods are under threat of replacement, to be transformed into the gleaming modern glass towers that have eviscerated many of the greatest cities of the world.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Nathan Kensinger Photography
The Abandoned & Industrial Edges of New York City
kensinger.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5838188789058326203.post-74401696798761011832013-01-30T01:05:00.000-05:002013-01-30T01:05:54.806-05:00The Andrew Freedman Home<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Once a retirement mansion for destitute millionaires, The Andrew Freedman Home is now a house divided. On the ground floor, it presents a restored version of its luxurious past, with a bed and breakfast that includes well appointed bedrooms, spacious ballrooms, an elegant saloon and a grand library. On upper floors, the home is a playground for pigeons that pick through the muck left behind by decades of decay. Though situated on the Grand Concourse, one of the busiest streets in the Bronx, this semi-abandoned New York City Landmark feels more like an urban version of <a href="http://www.theoverlookhotel.com/" target="_blank">The Overlook Hotel</a>.<br />
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Built in 1924, The Andrew Freedman Home "was designed in the Italian Renaissance style," according to a denied Landmark designation request from 1974 (<a href="http://neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org/db/bb_files/1974-andrewfreedmanhome.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a>), and is "an imposing limestone structure occupying an entire block facing the Grand Concourse." It was funded by a five million dollar bequest from Andrew Freedman, the "Father of the New York Subway" and a one-time owner of the New York Giants baseball team, whose dying wish in 1915 was to create a home for "aged and indigent gentlefolk... of culture and refinement."<br />
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"In short, it was built for indigent capitalists," wrote Vivian Gornick in "A Splendid and Bitter Isolation," a 1980 article for the Village Voice. "It broke Andrew Freedman's heart to think that men who had once held Wall Street in thrall were wandering around broke, not being listened to any more. More than that: it terrified him." In order to house these sad compatriots, Freedman's bequest was used to create "a large beautiful structure whose interior strongly resembled a great 19th century hotel: carpeted lounges, all velvet wing chairs, marble fireplaces, great arched windows, an oak paneled library, chandeliered dining rooms, bedrooms complete with soft lamps, thick rugs, crisp linen. At dinner, black ties and long dresses, silver service, white-gloved waiters. And no one paid a cent."<br />
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In later years, The Andrew Freedman Home's mission would expand to embrace aged intellectuals, including professors, political scientists, painters, and university librarians. By 1983, however, "the increasing cost of maintaining the facility forced the home to close," according to a successful Landmark designation report from 1992 (<a href="http://neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org/db/bb_files/1992AndrewFreedmanHome.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a>), and "the building was purchased by the <a href="http://www.midbronx.org/" target="_blank">Mid-Bronx Senior Citizens Council</a> as housing for the elderly." The few remaining wealthy residents from the building's past were relocated, to be replaced with a more economically diverse set of retirees. The Council, which still owns the building today, used the ground floor level for a retirement home, daycare and event space, but "much of the rest of the vast building has been kept sealed off like a tomb, a time-capsule monument to the Bronx’s grand past," according to the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/arts/design/no-longer-empty-at-the-andrew-freedman-home.html?_r=0" target="_blank">New York Times</a>.<br />
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In 2012, sections of the home's first and second floors were opened to the public for the first time during a unique installation by <a href="http://www.nolongerempty.org/home/" target="_blank">No Longer Empty</a> titled "<a href="http://www.nolongerempty.org/nc/home/what-we-do/exhibitions/exhibition/this-side-of-paradise/" target="_blank">This Side of Paradise</a>." The exhibit ran from April until June, and encouraged artists to incorporate artifacts left behind from the building's decaying past - typewriters, pianos, hair dryers - to connect "the history of the home with the present day realities of the Bronx." Rooms on the first and second floors were given over to a variety of individuals, including graffiti artists, sculptors, and a posthumous installation of work by war photographer Tim Hetherington. A number of the sealed, abandoned rooms on the second floor were reclaimed and transformed into bright, colorful spaces.<br />
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The upper levels of The Andrew Freedman Home, however, remained virulently derelict. On the third and fourth floors, broken windows let in rain and snow, causing paint to peel and ceilings to collapse. Piles of pigeon droppings grew on many surfaces. Evidence of squatters filled empty rooms, including pornographic magazines and VHS tapes. Other rooms were taken over by unsanctioned graffiti. One was carpeted in dead Christmas trees. These sections of the building were essentially an uncontrolled ruin, albeit one with delicate curtains still hanging on windows and barber chairs waiting for customers. A visiting artist who spent a night at the home in early 2012 was handed "a two-foot-long machete," according to the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/arts/design/no-longer-empty-at-the-andrew-freedman-home.html?_r=0" target="_blank">New York Times</a>, in case she "came across anyone who broke in during the night."<br />
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In December 2012, the first floor of this divided home was once again opened to the public. This time, it was offered up as a bed and breakfast named <a href="http://www.midbronx.org/andrew-freedman1" target="_blank">Freedman on the Concourse</a>, a "charming ten room guest house" located "just 20 minutes from New York's Times Square," according to the Mid-Bronx Senior Citizens Council. At their "delightful, 1920s themed lodging facility," overnight guests can drink in a "vintage speakeasy lounge," run and hide "on our expansive lawns," and sleep on furniture reclaimed from the bedrooms of original residents. Rates start at $175. Rooms are still available for Valentines Day.<br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">For other photo essays about art installations that engage historic, damaged New York City spaces, view essays from </span></i><a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-newtown-creek-armada.html" target="_blank"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Newtown Creek Armada</span></i></a><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> (2012), </span></i><a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2011/07/sleeping-in-sommerville-basin.html" target="_blank"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Boatel</span></i></a><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> (2011), </span></i><a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2010/06/life-in-navy-yard.html" target="_blank"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">House of Cards</span></i></a><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> (2010), </span></i><a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2010/05/this-building-has-story.html" target="_blank"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">This Building has a Story</span></i></a><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> (2010) and </span></i><a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2007/10/encampment-on-roosevelt-island.html" target="_blank"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Encampment</span></i></a><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> (2007). No Longer Empty currently has an exhibit titled </span><a href="http://www.nolongerempty.org/nc/home/what-we-do/exhibitions/exhibition/how-much-do-i-owe-you/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">How Much Do I Owe You</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> on view at an abandoned bank building in Long Island City.</span></i><br />
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The Abandoned & Industrial Edges of New York City
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On October 29th, New York City's waterfront was permanently transformed by Hurricane Sandy. During its enormous storm surge, neighborhoods throughout the city were flooded and destroyed. Houses were flattened, floated from their foundations, or pushed into the middle of streets and marshes. Since the storm, I've documented the damage done to many of the areas affected by the hurricane, talking with residents and publishing a series of photo essays at the website <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/tags/camera-obscura" target="_blank">Curbed</a>. No matter what type of neighborhood the storm visited, the damage was severe, from the mansions of Belle Harbor and Manhattan Beach, to the gated communities of Breezy Point and Sea Gate, to working class neighborhoods in Staten Island like New Dorp Beach, Fox Beach and Midland Beach, and marginalized neighborhoods like Edgemere and Far Rockaway.<br />
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Many of the unique neighborhoods documented on this website over the past 5 years were devastated by the storm. In Brooklyn, Coney Island was entirely submerged, creating enormous damage to homes and property. Alongside the damage in Sea Gate and Manhattan Beach, the hidden world beneath the boardwalk (<a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2009/03/coney-island-under-boardwalk.html" target="_blank"><i>Coney Island - Under the Boardwalk</i></a>, March 2009) was largely filled with sand and debris, while the bungalo<span style="font-size: small;">ws</span> of Brighton Beach (<a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2010/03/brighton-beach-bungalows.html" target="_blank"><i>Brighton Beach Bungalows,</i></a> March 2010) were flooded, jeopardizing the future of an already endangered community. Businesses and studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard (<a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/search/label/Brooklyn%20Navy%20Yard" target="_blank"><i>Brooklyn Navy Yard photo essays</i></a>, 2007-2010) were destroyed, while the Superfunded waters of the Gowanus Canal (<i><a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2011/10/gowanus-canal-toxic-playground.html" target="_blank">Gowanus Canal: Toxic Playground</a></i>, October 2011) and the Newtown Creek (<a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2011/02/newtown-creek-brooklyn-shores.html" target="_blank"><i>Newtown Creek: Brooklyn Shores</i></a>, February 2011) overflowed their banks and filled bordering neighborhoods with toxic pollution. Floyd Bennett Field (<a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2012/07/camping-at-floyd-bennett-field.html" target="_blank"><i>Camping at Floyd Bennett Field</i></a>, July 2012), was transformed from a quiet campsite and recreation area into a full scale military operation, with hundreds of trucks, ambulances, tents and humvees positioned to move into the Rockaways. <br />
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Like Coney Island, the Rockaways were also completely submerged, with water coming in from both the Atlantic Ocean and Jamaica Bay. At the eastern end of the peninsula, in the seaside sections of Far Rockaway (<i><a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2009/06/far-rockaway-abandoned-bungalows.html" target="_blank">Far Rockaway: Abandoned Bungalows</a></i>, June 2009) and on the shoreline in northern Edgemere (<a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2010/10/north-edgemere-shore.html" target="_blank"><i>The North Edgemere Shore</i></a>, October 2010), nearly every house was flooded, putting an enormous strain on two neighborhoods which had already been struggling to survive. In southern Edgemere (<a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2010/09/south-edgemere-wasteland.html" target="_blank"><i>The South Edgemere Wasteland</i></a>, September 2010), the iconic wooden boardwalk was lifted by the storm surge and pushed far inland. At the 59th street marina, home of The Boatel (<i><a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2011/07/sleeping-in-sommerville-basin.html" target="_blank">Sleeping in the Sommerville Basin</a></i>, July 2011), dozens of boats were left in a crushed jumble onshore, leaving the marina's future uncertain. In Hammels (<i><a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2010/12/hammels-wye.html" target="_blank">Hammels Wye</a></i>, December 2010), many more boats were destroyed. The western section of the Rockaways fared the worst, however, with fires and floods destroying many homes in Rockaway Beach, Belle Harbor and Breezy Point.<br />
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Staten Island's entire east coast was decimated by a storm surge that rushed inland through marshy areas that border many of its coastal neighborhoods. Blocks from the ocean, homes were pushed off their boundaries, crumbling and submerging into the reeds. Parts of Midland Beach and Fox Beach were wiped off the map, while the bungalows in New Dorp Beach (<i><a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-dorp-bungalows.html" target="_blank">New Dorp Bungalows</a></i>, February 2011) were hard hit and the century-old bungalow community of Cedar Grove Beach was left with only two structures remaining. Further south, the freshwater pond at Wolfes Pond Park (<i><a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2011/06/urban-camping-staten-island.html" target="_blank">Urban Camping in Staten Island</a>, </i>June 2011) was breached by the sea, which crushed several nearby landmarks.<br />
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The following 35 photographs are presented chronologically, beginning on the morning after the storm. They were selected from approximately 3,900 photographs which were taken over the past six weeks. These photographs provide only a small glimpse into some of the neighborhoods damaged by the storm. Publishing every one of the millions of photographs that have been taken since the storm passed would not begin to tell the whole story of how New York City's waterfront has been transformed. The cleanup is ongoing and will continue for many months, but has largely moved indoors and out of sight, like an invisible internal hemorrhage that leaves only a few bruises on the skin. In the months to come, the larger toll of the storm will begin to emerge, as homes are demolished or abandoned and businesses go bankrupt. Throughout the city, the same refrain has been repeated by many residents: the waterfront will never be the same.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>South Edgemere, 11/1/12</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>South Edgemere, 11/1/12</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>North Edgemere, 11/1/12</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Hammels, 11/1/12</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Rockaway Park, 11/1/12<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Belle Harbor, 11/1/12<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Stapleton, 11/03/12<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Midland Beach</i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>, 11/03/12<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Midland Beach</i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>, 11/03/12<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>New Dorp Beach</i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>, 11/03/12<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>New Dorp Beach</i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>, 11/03/12<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Cedar Grove Beach</i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>, 11/03/12<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Great Kills</i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>, 11/03/12<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Great Kills</i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>, 11/03/12<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Sea Gate,<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>11/11/12<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Sea Gate</i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>,<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>11/11/12<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Sea Gate</i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>,<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>11/11/12<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Manhattan Beach</i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>,<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>11/11/12<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Manhattan Beach</i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>,<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>11/11/12<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Fort Tilden, 11/16/12<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Breezy Point</i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>, 11/16/12</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Breezy Point</i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>, 11/16/12</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Breezy Point</i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>, 11/16/12<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Breezy Point</i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>, 11/16/12</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Jacob Riis Park</i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>, 11/16/12</i></span><br />
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Three weeks ago, Hurricane Sandy landed in New York, causing enormous devastation to the city's waterfront. Many of the unique neighborhoods documented on this website in the past five years were flooded or destroyed by the storm.<br />
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During the past three weeks, the website <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/" target="_blank">Curbed</a> published a series of my photo essays documenting the storm's impact. This ongoing series includes post-storm surveys of damage in <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/10/30/surveying_sandys_damage_in_red_hook_dumbo_and_gowanus.php" target="_blank">Gowanus, Red Hook and Dumbo</a> (10/30/12), the <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/11/02/surveying_queens_rockaway_peninsula_after_the_storm.php" target="_blank">Far Rockaways</a> (11/2/12), <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/11/05/surveying_sandys_damage_to_staten_island_one_week_later.php" target="_blank">Staten Island</a> (11/5/12) and <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/11/19/a_look_at_the_postsandy_cleanup_in_the_rockaways.php" target="_blank">the cleanup in the Rockaways</a> (11/19/12). These photo essays are part of my ongoing column for Curbed, titled <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/tags/camera-obscura" target="_blank">Camera Obscura</a>.<br />
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A longer photo essay examining the storm's impact - titled <a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2012/12/after-storm.html" target="_blank">After The Storm</a> - was published on this website in December 2012.<br />
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On September 9th, 2012, <a href="http://newtowncreekarmada.org/" target="_blank">The Newtown Creek Armada</a> was launched into the waters of the Newtown Creek. The Newtown Creek Armada is an art installation that invites the public to explore the past, present and future of this contaminated New York City waterway. The Newtown Creek, a Superfund site bordering Brooklyn and Queens, is one of the most polluted bodies of water in the United States. Visitors to The Armada will pilot a fleet of artist-made, miniature, remote-controlled boats along the surface of the creek while documenting the hidden world of its waters using waterproof cameras and microphones. <b></b><a href="http://newtowncreekarmada.org/" target="_blank"><br /><br />The Newtown Creek Armada</a> is a collaboration between artists Laura Chipley, Nathan Kensinger, and Sarah Nelson Wright, and is presented in partnership with North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition (nbART) and with support from the NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the North Brooklyn Boat Club (NBBC). It has received grants from the Hudson River Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, In Our Backyards (ioby), Macktez, and Feast Brooklyn. It has been made possible through the support of many community organizations and individuals.<br />
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The Armada took place on weekend dates throughout September, 2012 at the Newtown Creek Nature Walk, a public park operated by the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treament Plant. For details on the installation, visit <a href="http://newtowncreekarmada.org/" target="_blank">newtowncreekarmada.org</a><br />
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July 4, 2012 -<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> This photo essay is part of an ongoing series about camping within the 5 boroughs of New York City. The series so far includes <a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2011/06/urban-camping-staten-island.html" target="_blank">camping at Wolfe's Pond Park</a> and a portrait of <a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2011/04/pouch-camp.html" target="_blank">Pouch Camp</a> in Staten Island, <a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2011/07/sleeping-in-sommerville-basin.html" target="_blank">a trip to the Boatel</a> in Queens, and <a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2010/06/life-in-navy-yard.html" target="_blank">a one year pass to a shanty timeshare</a> in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. </i></span><br />
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Floyd Bennett Field is <a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2008/05/floyd-bennett-airfield.html" target="_blank">an abandoned airport</a> at the southern end of Brooklyn, with empty runways and aircraft hangars, crumbling power stations, a hollowed-out police precinct, and a constantly changing collection of boat wrecks. Built on landfill poured into the marshes of Jamaica Bay, this was once New York City's only municipal airport. It now resembles a wide open wilderness, with an excess of concrete. It is also New York City's only public campground.<br />
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As part of the National Park Service's Gateway National Recreation Area, Floyd Bennett Field has recently renovated and upgraded much of its facilities, including expanding its campgrounds last summer to include space for over 50 campsites and RVs. The newly remodeled campsites are surrounded by a dense stand of trees and feel isolated from the city, despite a constant stream of jets flying to JFK overhead and the nearby views of the Empire State Building. The closest neighbors are the colonies of rabbits and raccoons that live in the woods nearby. At night, a surprising amount of stars are visible. <br />
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Besides unlimited firewood, camping at Floyd Bennett provides visitors the opportunity to explore this ruined airport at their leisure. Bordered by empty runways, the camping area is next door to a unrestored, derelict aircraft hangar filled with antique planes that are slowly being renovated. The nearby shoreline of Jamaica Bay is populated by a collection of wrecked boats and early morning fishermen. Longer hikes from the campground lead to an abandoned Job Corps campus and to the perpetually polluted beaches of <a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2008/02/dead-horse-bay.html" target="_blank">Dead Horse Bay</a>. As New York City's only campsite, Floyd Bennett provides an appropriately unvarnished experience of the urban waterfront, where man-made "nature" co-exists with copious industrial ruins and the visible effects of centuries of pollution.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>For more information on camping at Floyd Bennett, visit the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/gate/planyourvisit/camping-at-gateway.htm" target="_blank">National Park Service website</a>. For more photo essays from the area, visit <a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2008/05/floyd-bennett-airfield.html" target="_blank">Floyd Bennett Airfield</a> (2008) and <a href="http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2008/02/dead-horse-bay.html" target="_blank">Dead Horse Bay</a> (2008). </i></span><br />
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