Vernon CherryE 42nd St between Lexington Ave and 3rd AveHeart Two · Location 169 · Drawn October 20021234Select 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 6Download photograph 7Download photograph 8Video podcast0:00On the northeast corner of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue is a bus shelter.0:07The bus shelter hosts three large panels of glass, and the drawing was done in the center panel.0:14This is Vernon Cherry. He was drawn in October of 2002.0:19His drawing is counting five people.0:23Vernon Cherry planned to retire at the end of the year.0:26He was with one of the first companies dispatched to the towers.0:30He reportedly went straight in.0:34I started this drawing, and in under five minutes, the man in blue was there to stop me.0:40He informed me that he had been called by a bus driver.0:43That bus driver is in the bus photograph.0:47I could do nothing but congratulate him on his awesomely speedy response.0:51I'm still not sure exactly where he came from, but he was doing his job really well.0:57This drawing did not get another arm or leg, but we did get to document what we had done, remove it, and move on.1:04A pioneer firefighter, Vernon P. Cherry, served almost 30 years among the ranks of New York City's bravest,1:10but is zest for life in living radiated far beyond the walls of Ladder Company 1181:14at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge in the city's largest borough.1:17He was one of the most outgoing, friendly, non-pretentious persons I'd ever seen.← Location 168Heart Two · Location 169Location 170 →
