Daniel BrethelW 47th St between 10th Ave and 11th AveHeart Two · Location 142 · Drawn December 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 podcast0:00The wall this drawing was made on is on the southwest corner of 47th Street and 10th Avenue.0:06It's on the side of the Nisa Glass Systems Incorporated.0:10The wall has seen a lot of action and has obviously been painted several times.0:14The drawing was done underneath a triangular display of advertisements that are labeled 945 and 946.0:22The wall is facing north.0:24This is Captain Daniel Brethel.0:27He was drawn in December of 2001.0:30His drawing is counting 10 people.0:33The group of people around the mailbox had a request.0:37Could I put a mustache on the fireman I was drawing?0:40This was all said in Spanish, mixed with a fair bit of mime,0:44and pointing to their own mustaches.0:46I finally got it.0:48When I got home, to my surprise, I discovered that their persistence0:51made the drawing a better portrait of Daniel Brethel.0:54Then, I noticed that in this photograph, there was a truck that helped deliver the papers1:00from which these newspaper portraits come from.1:03There's a home video of Daniel Brethel at age four wearing a fire hat that he'd gotten1:08for Christmas and grinning from ear to ear.1:10Daniel would build fire stations out of cardboard boxes in his East Meadow living room and push1:15his plastic truck speedily to make believe fires...← Location 141Heart Two · Location 142Location 143 →
