"New York City’s Waterfront" Exhibition
1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery
This event has ended.
Previously exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York, "New York City’s Waterfront" features historic photographs complemented by recent work by Diane Cook and Len Jenshel, which both documents the remnants of the industrial waterfront (such as warehouses, train tracks, and gantries) and demonstrates the current renewal of the shoreline. Offering a new image of the working waterfront now replete with baseball fields, parks and playgrounds, and piers that are reconstructed for pedestrian use, Cook and Jenshel’s photographs demonstrate the waterfront’s dramatic transformation from a working, commercial, and industrial center to their current recreational use, supporting the entertainment and tourist industries that are crucial to the post-industrial city.
[Image: Diane Cook "Little Red Lighthouse, Fort Washington Park, Manhattan" (2002) Courtesy of the photographer]
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from November 26, 2009 to January 26, 2010