Urban Vignettes

In the evolving landscapes of the Lower East Side and Greenwich Village, figures from Washington Square—the pigeon man, the blitzed-out Hare Krishna contingent, the Lubavich Hasidic elders, the naked man in the fountain—drift like specters through dust and steel. Around the corner, old tenements dissolve as cranes rise. The hum of machinery merges with the echoes of the past, history and modernity colliding—brick by brick, beam by beam—reshaping a city forever in flux.

My evocation of Washington Square Dreamscape was featured on Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, an online literary publication dedicated to true stories set in New York City (link here).