Michael Carroll5th Ave between W 42nd St and 43rd StHeart Two · Location 164 · Drawn September 2002123Select 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 5Video podcast0:00This drawing was made on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue, just above 42nd Street,0:05its caddy corner, to the New York City Library.0:09When it was made, it was made on a wooden wall overlooking a construction pit.0:13As of spring 2006, another skyscraper has been added to the landscape of New York City,0:18and the wall is no longer there.0:20The exact location of the drawing is just to the left of a double set of glass doors,0:25facing onto Fifth Avenue.0:27This is Michael Carroll.0:30drawn in September of 2002. His drawing is counting ten people. All throughout0:36the Times Square area is a constant patrol of young men with their eyes to0:41the ground. They sweep in on any trash that lands in their domain and redirect0:47it to their wheeled garbage cans. In the photo on the right I am talking to the0:52Tsar of this intersection and receiving the necessary approval to draw freely.0:57Lee. He allowed us to do our job, and he continued doing his. And with the merging of our workforces,1:04an argument could be made that this intersection was improved even more. During the blizzard of1:101996, he was heading uptown from New York Hospital after his father had surgery there.1:15On every other corner, there was a poor soul looking for a cab, said Nancy, Amigra, and his1:19sister. One by one, firefighter Carroll picked up the snow-covered New Yorkers and drove them home.1:24We were so relieved about my father that we would have driven anybody to tell us.← Location 163Heart Two · Location 164Location 165 →
