Carl BiniW 39th St between 11th Ave and 10th AveHeart Two · Location 131 · Drawn November 200112345Select 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 podcast0:00This brick wall is off of 39th Street between 10th and 11th Avenue.0:04The wall is facing to the west.0:06It faces into a large empty parking lot.0:10And what's remarkable is that four and a half years later,0:12the graffiti that was on either side of the drawing is still there and untouched.0:18If you stand in front of the wall, to the left is a large metal tower that hosts the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel.0:25This is Carl Binney.0:26He was drawn in November of 2001.0:30His drawing is counting five people.1:00where I am living looks out over lower Manhattan. And beyond that, the smoke of another plane crash.1:06I return to the city. In the circle below is the place I originally drew my figure.1:12It is near the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel. Also near the entrance were a dozen or so police1:17officers. As the drawing had just been completed, an officer asked me about it. She was okay with1:23my explanation and let me round it off. Two minutes later, two more officers, who were not1:30made their opinions known.1:32I was not allowed to document the piece before removing it.1:35We parted ways tensely.1:38I would like to thank the parking lot attendant in this space,1:41across from this location, for letting me draw Carl Binney.1:46So it was completely in keeping with routine1:48that Mr. Binney telephoned his wife the morning of September 11th1:52at about 8.40 a.m. while she was en route from the couple's home in Staten Island1:55to her job in Brooklyn just to check in and say hello.1:59Minutes later, he called again.2:00He told me about the plane, Mrs. Beeney said.2:03He said he was going.2:04I told him to be careful.2:06That Tuesday was to have been a day off for Firefire Beeney.← Location 130Heart Two · Location 131Location 132 →
