End of the Line (Red Hook, Brooklyn)

Brooklyn Waterfront

Bond Street, Brooklyn

5 Pointz, Long Island City

Which Way? (Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn)

42nd Street

Union Square

Backstage at the Westminster Dog Show (Bull Mastiff)

New York City Opera sets

Shirts (Mulberry Street)

In 2013 I ventured into Brooklyn and Queens to do street photography. The first photograph of the abandoned trolley car was shown at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition show in the fall. I shot the second one during the opening of that show.

Two of these photos recall two very different institutions that met their end in 2013: the beloved New York City Opera, whose sets were sold from a warehouse before the final demise of the company, and an unofficial museum of graffiti called 5 Pointz in Long Island City, Queens. What will be the fate of art and artists in 2014 and in the administration of Mayor De Blasio?