Steven BatesW 33rd St between 10th Ave and 11th AveHeart Two · Location 124 · Drawn October 20011234Select a number to open a drawing state.The published 2006 collage is shown above. The numbered links open archival images. Use your browser’s Back button to return here.PhotographsDownload photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Video podcast0:00To find the location for this drawing, you would go to 33rd Street and bring yourself to almost halfway between 10th and 11th Avenue.0:08The train yard is behind you.0:09Next to the FedEx building is 525 West 33rd Street.0:14There are three large retractable metal garage doors on it.0:18This drawing was located beneath the no parking driveway sign.0:22This is Lieutenant Steven Bates.0:25He was drawn in October of 2001.0:27and one. His drawing is counting 10 people. This wall is the exterior of a parking garage.0:35While I was drawing this figure, the owner of the garage came and talked to me. He said he was0:40honored to have this fireman, but as so often is the case, he did not own the building and therefore0:46this drawing was up for five minutes. The business next door is FedEx. The anthrax scare is in the0:53news and it is clear that postal workers are now threatened by more human viciousness. Odd times.1:01Bates, 42, of Glendale, had a rough childhood, said Joan Polowski, his companion of 10 years.1:07His mother died when he was a child and his father wasn't around. Engine Company, 235,1:14in Bedford-Stuyvesant, really gave him a family feeling, she said, and he looked forward to1:19dinners with the guys and cooking them so well.← Location 123Heart Two · Location 124Location 125 →
