Kevin BrackenW 44th St between 10th Ave and 11th AveHeart Two · Location 138 · Drawn December 2001123Select 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 4Download photograph 5Download photograph 6Video podcast0:00If you're coming from 43rd Street, you might be tempted to pass through a parking garage.0:05If you pass that parking garage in the center of 43rd, you get to the center of 44th Street between 10th and 11th Avenue.0:11Don't expect to pass through it without meeting some resistance.0:15When you enter onto 44th, on the north side of the street, you find a thin, red slice of brick wall between two chain-link fences.0:24To the left is a playground filled with children playing.0:30This is Kevin Bracken. He was drawn in December of 2001.0:36His drawing is counting ten people.0:39This wall was one of the very rare ones that complemented the color of this green tape and pleased the eye while drawing.0:51But it was not just on the golf course that Kevin Bracken, a firefighter with Engine Company 40,0:56on Amsterdam Avenue and 66th Street0:59was known as a lucky guy.1:00It was every time he looked for a parking spot1:02on a busy street, or the day two years ago1:05his car flipped over in a traffic accident1:07and he escaped without a scratch.1:09His wife, Jennifer Lang,1:11would say Mr. Bracken...← Location 137Heart Two · Location 138Location 139 →
