Head in Hands

Head in Hands, Lexington Line - 2005

I think photographers have been fascinated wtih New York's subway forever because everything happens down here - the good, the bad and the ugly. You are alone here - and you are surrounded with a crush of people. You are going somewhere - and going nowhere at the same time. No matter what camera I'm using - it always finds its' way into the underground.

Directly behind me - at the same moment - two couples were kidding around with each other. A man was watching me take this photograph. Two policemen were a few yards away on walkie talkies.

A few minutes after I took this picture - the woman was helped onto a train by a young man at the other end of the bench.

Turtle Pond & Subway

Today in New York.

It was a cloudy day in the park. The turtles were out in turtle pond. When I got home there was a big story about a potential bomb threat to the subways.





Turtle Pond

"It was a slow day
And the sun was beating
On the soldiers by the side of the road
There was a bright light
A shattering of shop windows
The bomb in the baby carriage
Was wired to the radio" - Paul Simon

"specific yet noncredible,"
"information was of doubtful credibility."
"This is the first time we have had a threat with this level of specificity."

So what we have here is a specific yet noncredible threat of doubtful credibility with a level of specificity we haven't seen before.

It's a tricky business. Homeland security at the federal level and city officials had different messages - but frankly - I'd put my money on the city officials in this case.