Here, on the corner of Greene and Houston, in a street scene with the common city sights of scaffolding and safety netting and the ubiquitous fire escape, we find, unexpectedly, the colors of NYC, blue and orange.
Eli Siegel said in his 1970 lecture, New York Begins Poetically, that in New York, “there is a oneness of quiet and tumult, profundities and mischief…it begins with geography, and then there are twirls and manifestations, surprises within the absolute…. You can use a point to get to the whole world, and New York is a good place to begin to be fair to reality as such.”
—Perry Hall