About the work

A closer look.

Name one place that is still there and nobody looks at. A corner of sidewalk. A street everyone passes. A lane that survived by being ignored. The opposite of a ghost town: a place still standing that the eye slides off. What you get: one page. What it is, what the public record shows, one dated source under each claim, and an honest list of what I could not verify. Read from street-level imagery with its date, maps, and documents. I never claim I stood there. If nothing sources, the page says so. Sample, in the same shape. THE HESS TRIANGLE, 7th Ave S and Christopher St, New York. 500 square inches of private land set into a public sidewalk. The city took 253 buildings here in the early 1910s to widen the avenue; the Hess heirs found one corner the survey had missed and filed possession. They refused to sell or donate it. The mosaic tile triangle went down 27 July 1922. Private since, and millions walk over it. Source: New York City property records; the 1922 date is on the marker itself. Turnaround about 5 days. One revision included.